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22 May 2009 by nathaniel

features (Distill Life / Night Work)

Night Work / Distill Life sees a couple of blog features, namely on DVblog and Networked Performance. Thanks Jo and Michael! I must quote Michael, as he amuses me so:

Documentation of work of surpassing loveliness & smarts both, from Jessica Meuninck-Ganger
& Nathaniel Stern*** as they meld digital photo frames, printing and drawing into a hybrid form
which probably has no right to work but so does.
Says Nathaniel:
“These works premiered at the Armoury Gallery in Milwaukee, on a show called Night Work.
Some will be at Elaine Erickson gallery in June, at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in July, and 10-15 from the series will be on a large show at Gallery AOP in Johannesburg in Jan/Feb 2010.

***”The Nathaniel Stern?” I hear you gasp, “He of the infamous Wikipedia Art affair?”
None but, gentle viewer, none but…

DVblog actually has full resolution quicktimes of my documentation, if you want ’em. Working to confirm another show in Massachusetts for early next year as well, with a very exciting curator – more when I know the details.

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10 May 2009 by nathaniel

Night Work / Distill Life

Documentation of several pieces from Night Work, with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, is now live.

Night Work, an exhibition featuring Milwaukee-based art professors and instructors at the artist-run Armoury Gallery, premiered my new body of collaborative works with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. Playfully called “Distill Life,” this ongoing series of art objects combines hand-made works on paper with time-based video images looped on LCD screens.  We first capture and edit video from real and virtual worlds, and download these files onto hacked digital photo frames. The liberated screens from these frames are then placed behind or embedded within prints, drawings and sculptures. Sometimes, we use a Sharpie and draw directly on the screen. Our intention is to incorporate technologies and aesthetics from traditional printmaking – including Japanese woodblock and engraving circa the 1800s, present-day etching, stone lithography, photogravure etc – with the technologies and aesthetics of contemporary digital, video and networked art, in order to create new forms.

See Night Work for more images and video.

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