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Broad Cast Response, 2007

Here’s a little preview of one of the pieces I’ve done (produced this week) for the iCommons Summit in two weeks – it’ll simulcast in SL as well…

Conceptualized in collaboration with Nicole Ridgway, for Broad Cast Response, I captured the entirety of the 1990, teen angst, pirate radio movie Pump Up the Volume, then broke it down into a diptych of all the spoken “no”s and all the spoken “yes”s in the film, respectively. The resultant installation, which continuously flows in and out of a synced, monosyllabic debate, is an ironic testament to the poor quality of contemporary broadcast news, a tense tribute to the copyfight and pirate artists, and overall, a playful attempt to highlight the absurdity of the closed dialectic.

Broad Cast Response was produced for the iCommons Summit 2007, a residency, workshop and exhibition programme simultaneously held in Dubrovnik, Croatia and Second Life.

Watch it: http://nathanielstern.com/works/video/broad-cast-response/broad-cast-response.html

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03 June 2007 by nathaniel

Landscapes, Icons and other tidbits

blossom on the dodder, 220 x 300mm (2007), nathaniel stern & angel shoreditch, 780 x 100 mm (2007) Paul La Rocque

My first Irish exhibition, a duo show entitled Landscapes and Icons, opened at the new Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists in West Cork on Thursday evening, and it was a great party – drinks, food, 70 or so peops… I even convinced Ralph and a few others to drive out and join, which made for some friendly faces amidst a foreign crowd. I produced a dozen new Compressionist digital prints, which will likely travel to a bit of Europe with Haydn after the summer ends — will post some pics of the opening and more info when my life slows down a bit (may be a while), but click the link above for images, info, etc. Haydn is a rad guy and I hope to be working with him more in the future:

Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery, based in rural Cork, Ireland, specialises in contemporary art created through computing and allied technologies. The gallery’s artists share a common philosophy of using digital technology to encourage us to look again at the world around us.

This week, I’m prepping some new work for the iCommons Summit, residency and exhibition in Croatia and Second Life – which will be a video diptych (a new language lapse) as well as the first in a new site-specific series I’m tentatively calling ‘sentimental constructions.’ Watch this space for more on both of those… Oh, and there will also be reciprocal interviews between me and Paddy Johnson (artfagcity) on the iCommons blog in the coming week or two :) Other Commons artists-in-res include Cao Fei (China), Joy Garnett (USA), Ana Husman (Croatia), Kathryn Smith (South Africa), Tim Whidden (representing MTAA, USA) and Jaka Å½eleznikar (Slovenia).

Let’s see, I’m also presenting at a conference this Friday at UCD – ‘perpectives on the body and embodiment’ – in the philosophy department, so things are a bit crazed (can only go to one day of the proceedings, then I leave for Dubrovnik!)… Other exhibitions and residencies go on for the rest of the summer, both exciting and exhausting – plus visits back to both homes in SA and the USA (tho the latter is very brief, on route to a workshop/residency in Colorado) – before I buckle down again and start writing the PhD in Dublin in October. Check out the front page of the site for links to some of my planned hot spots.

More soon, likely from Croatia!

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22 May 2007 by nathaniel

iCommoners

Paddy interviews two more of our iCommons Artists in Residence:

Joy Garnett and Jaka Å½eleznikar.

Nice.

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21 May 2007 by nathaniel

Uhuru Productions presents: The Global Commons

Lots of CC stars answer some basic but important questions: a documentary of the iSummit in Brazil last year! via iCommons and dotSUB, by Rehad Desai from Uhuru Productions and under CC Attribution Share Alike.

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17 May 2007 by nathaniel

in the metaverse messenger

Gearing up for an Artist Residency in Croatia, before and at (as an exhibition) the iCommons Summit ’07. Artists / art bloggers include: myself, Paddy Johnson , Joy Garnett, Ana Husman, Kathryn Smith, MTAA, Jaka Å½eleznikar. There will be simultaneous exhibitions, live feeds, and interactions in Second Life, so we’ve got a front page feature in the Metaverse Messenger this week. Direct download of the magazine here (PDF, just under 6MBs).

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16 May 2007 by nathaniel

Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery

Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery (aka galleryICA – for Innovative Contemporary Artists) launches its website this week, and its first show (featuring me and Paul La Rocque) on 31 May:

We open at 6.30 pm but the party goes on for as long as you wish, downstairs in the Pink Elephant. The women of the chorus of Opera Cork will be there to sing and you can network among some of Cork’s business and art loving community.

More on that show when I have it, but you can get the gallery info and images via the links above. They specialize in artists engaging with technology, and are starting with editioned prints as a focus for this and the next show. Also affiliated with this new space, and showing in the early Fall (Dublin time) is Scott Kildall, aka the Great Escape (from Second Front, the SL performance group). If you don’t know his work, highly recommended (and many thanks to Sasha Harris-Cronin for the e-introduction!).