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07 February 2008 by nathaniel

Ingrid Michaelson chat

I wrote this post on a long lost high school friend and current rock star a while back, and so it seems some Ingrid Michaelson fans (good taste ladies and gents) are winding up on my blog. If you are one of them, you should be aware of a live chat with Ingrid this weekend. (I won’t be able to make it, unfortunately.)

Chat Live with…
Ingrid Michaelson
Sat, February 9
@ 7PM EST

– Ingrid will be answering questions from her webcam
– Visit Ingrid’s myspace page and look for the embedded meebo chat room to join.

I should add that I have been regularly listening to “The Way I Am” and “Breakable” since putting them on my iPod (“Keep Breathing” too), and they seem to have more impact on me with each listen.

Ingrid on iTunes:
Ingrid Michaelson

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02 February 2008 by nathaniel

yes we can (updated below)(another update)

I have been been mostly refraining from posting on politics (compared to how much time I have invested in it personally). But this, I could not resist. Mr.Dippy: Yes We Can. Just beautiful. Go OBAMA!!!!!!!!

[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=IrWaEaEZQys&feature=related]

update.

The gist:

The Black Eyed Peas’ frontman, songwriter and producer known as will.i.am, along with director and filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of another socially active musician, Bob Dylan… celebrities and musicians banded together to create new music in the heat of a presidential campaign. … appearances from a range of celebrities including: Scarlett Johansson, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Kelly Hu … Amber Valetta and Nick Cannon.

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update 2.

youtube seems to keep removing it. you can view it here if the above doesn’t work.

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31 January 2008 by nathaniel

Catch of the day: Second Life’s new gallery

A little press from the Guardian’s art blog, here. Mark Hooper runs a bit cool on SL and its economy, but speaks positively about the gallery itself, and my and the other artists’ work. Snips:

 Three artists are showcasing their art in a new virtual gallery. But is this really the best place to see their work?

Ten Cubed gallery
The perfect art gallery? … a view of Second Life’s Ten Cubed gallery

I’ll be honest. My experience of Second Life is fairly limited. … So you’ll have to forgive me if I’m not as excited as some people about the launch of Ten Cubed, a new art gallery in Second Life, which goes live here today.

The gallery has been developed by Depo Consulting in association with Galleryica. Don’t get me wrong; it all looks very well designed. “Most virtual galleries are like your average website, poorly designed without any sense of optimising a visitor’s experience,” announced Depo CEO and creative director Peter Dunkley. “Ten Cubed has been designed by a professional architect to exploit fully the showcasing opportunities of the virtual medium.”

I’m sure he’s right. The inaugural show features the work of Chris Ashley, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, all interesting artists whose use of new technology makes them perfect for this sort of project….

So – nice design, nice publicity stunt. It’s made me check out the artists online anyway, via their own websites. Which is the only place I’d even contemplate buying their art.

The whole article.

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30 January 2008 by nathaniel

Simulate Editions at Ten Cubed Gallery, Second Life

Simulate Editions
unique and authenticated virtual art objects

Premiering at:
Crossing the Void II
Ten Cubed Gallery, Second Life
opening receptions 31 January 7pm EST (1pm SLT) and 1 February 7pm GMT (8am SLT)
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/depo%20park%201/200/55/22

Simulate Editions

Artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern have each been exploring performance and performativity in their archival prints. Kildall restages then remediates iconic performance artworks in Second Life, and Stern straps on a scanner appendage and battery pack, and performs images into existence; both processes produce art objects in the real world.

For Crossing the Void II at Ten Cubed Gallery – Haydn Shaughnessy’s new virtual space designed by New York architect Benn Dunkley – they were asked to produce unique virtual art works for sale in Second Life, which mirror their real life prints. In response, they created a series of “Simulate Editions”, where every ‘print’ is individually signed and numbered by hand, making each work ‘technically unique.’ The works are copy and modification protected, but also come with a resize script, so that the new collector/owner – and only them – can grow or shrink their purchase so as to fit into their SL space.

In addition to Kildall and Stern, also on the exhibition are Chris Ashley, Jon Coffelt and Claire Keating.

Simulate Editions

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21 January 2008 by nathaniel

ten cubed

ten-cubed.jpg

I’m involved, via Haydn Shaugnessy (my Irish gallery) in a funky new project, where he’s hired a ‘Real World’ architect to build an astonishingly beautiful gallery out at sea in Second Life: Ten Cubed (pictured). Via some of Haydn’s blogging on the subject:

About a year ago I decided to set up a real life gallery. The reason was simply that I love media art but couldn’t find galleries that specialise in it. Now I have a media-art gallery and on a day-to-day basis experience the fact that the audience for this is global rather than local. Media-art is beginning to find an audience in Ireland but its real audience is urban anywhere.

I can connect to some of that audience through a website . But what I can’t do through a website is join people in appreciating the art; not when they could be anywhere from New York to Naples. Nor could many of the audience really appreciate the artwork: they’d simply be viewing a 2D image.

With Ten Cubed I can do these things. I can stand with you and admire the work and together we can analyse and crit.

What I can also do is make room to showcase art that my physical gallery could not exhibit – because of its size and because of the sheer impracticality of giving over all my space to one large work. In Ten Cubed I can show any amount of art and at any scale. I can also help promote and encourage artists working in a virtual medium.

I have to say that Ten Cubed really is a visceral space – “walking” around and viewing my work, it’s the most free and embodied I’ve ever felt in a Virtual World. And one of the more exciting aspects of the exhibition – which I’ll blog about later in the week – is a project I’m working on with Scott Kildall, where we are making unique SL print editions: virtual, limited edition art, signed and numbered individually and by hand!

More on Haydn’s SL artists.

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