{"id":1389,"date":"2007-01-14T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/updata\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T11:27:39","slug":"updata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/updata\/","title":{"rendered":"updata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the lack of updates on this blog or my daughter&#8217;s site over the last few weeks. I realize now that I really only cut out a few hours per week (my online teaching), but added a full-time PhD post, a daughter, a new country to learn, and (the usual) a few new writing and art projects. The blog has (and will likely continue to) suffered a bit. Also expect more on the academic \/ philosophy art-geek side, and less on the techy and local stuff&#8230; But, a few things to report nonetheless.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m in Joburg in 10 days! I&#8217;ll be coming in for my solo exhibition, <a href=\"http:\/\/callandresponse.co.za\/\">Call and Response<\/a>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artonpaper.co.za\/\">Art on Paper Gallery<\/a>, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.44stanley.co.za\/\">44 Stanley Avenue complex<\/a>. It&#8217;s going to be opened by the gregarious Professor Jane Taylor; <a href=\"http:\/\/callandresponse.co.za\/\">click the link<\/a> to preview the beautiful catalogue <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/inthestudio\">Ellen<\/a> designed, with texts by Clive Kellner (Johannesburg Art Gallery) &amp; Wilhelm van Rensburg (University of Johannesburg), edited by Nicole Ridgway (Best Wife Ever). Also just put up a slideshow of all the prints <a href=\"http:\/\/callandresponse.co.za\/\">there<\/a>&#8230; Please try to make it, 27 January, 3PM (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artonpaper.co.za\/Contact.asp\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>And in the spirit of updating my online stuff, I&#8217;ve added a few things to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\">main site<\/a>, like new descriptions (and a new page) of older <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/works\/performance\/index.html\">performances<\/a> &#8211; I never wrote statements for those collaborations, so wound up finding some text online. There&#8217;ll be a few more updates in the coming days.<\/li>\n<li>But more in line with printmaking, I can confirm I&#8217;ll be working with printer and artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zhanewarren.net\/\">Zhane Warren<\/a> on my three week residency at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fransmasereelcentrum.be\/\">Frans Masereel Centre<\/a> in Belgium this July. Very excited to work with her, as well as keep up the SA link.<\/li>\n<li>Last and most of all, if there&#8217;s one important thing I&#8217;ve done towards my PhD over the last couple of months, it&#8217;s solidify my research goals. Woo woo. Below is a 300-word abstract proposal I wrote for a potential upcoming conference. Multiply it by dissertation-length (by adding several sections on methodologies and sub-concepts through case studies and my own arts production), and you&#8217;ll have a pretty good idea of the next 3 years of my life!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Without further ado,<\/p>\n<p><strong>In and Around: the Implicit Body as Performance<\/strong><br \/>\nby li&#8217;l ole me<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Theorists and producers of the &#8220;mixed reality&#8221; movement within interactive art argue that inviting action and enactment, rather than producing illusion and simulacrum, creates more immersive spaces. Mark Hansen&#8217;s concept of the &#8220;body-in-code,&#8221; for example, reads the sensorimotor body here as an &#8220;activity&#8221; and a &#8220;being-with,&#8221; where the body is &#8220;distributed beyond the skin in the context of contemporary technics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others, such as Brenda Laurel and Chris Salter, have sought to re-think critical histories of digital practice in order to locate interactive and digital art more precisely in the theatrical or performance realms.<\/p>\n<p>My research contends that in such spaces, it is the body, itself, which is performed. A body in space can &#8220;act&#8221; as a site of emergence, a boundary project, and an incipience. While Rebecca Schneider&#8217;s &#8220;explicit body&#8221; in feminist performance art performatively <em>unfolds<\/em> (Latin: explicare) and explicates, the implicit body concordantly <em>enfolds<\/em> (Latin: implicare) and implies. Inter-action is both constitutive of, and always already involved in, the space of the body as relational. Like an animated moebius strip, the body is: in and around.<\/p>\n<p>This paper attempts to think through digital art as a proscenium for, and framer of, the implicit body. I&#8217;m not necessarily interested in work or environments that are more illusory or more immersive, but that, rather, ask us to move in ways we normally wouldn&#8217;t, pushing the boundaries of performativity and affect. Like space itself, bodiliness is &#8220;susceptible to folding, division and reshaping\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 open to continual negotiation&#8221; (K Kirby). By setting the stage, interactive artists-as-directors create productive tensions between the per-formed and the pre-formed, shifting our experiences of &#8220;body&#8221;. At stake, are potential strategies for intervention in our understandings of enfleshment, art that contextualizes embodiment towards specific ends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy y&#8217;all. Apologies for the lack of updates on this blog or my daughter&#8217;s site over the last few weeks. I realize now that I really only cut out a few hours per week (my online teaching), but added a full-time PhD post, a daughter, a new country to learn, and (the usual) a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,26,28,7,29,2,19,5,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-compressionism","category-ireland-art","category-me","category-research","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-theory","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9blZT-updata","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1514,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/the-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":1389,"position":0},"title":"the &#8216;market&#8217;","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 July 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Not to again mention Winkleman's appearance on the US telly about the big Warhol sale a few weeks ago, but there are quite a few good reads about the art market on the web as of late. 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