{"id":1662,"date":"2008-07-23T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T12:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/myartspacecom-interview\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T12:18:46","slug":"myartspacecom-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/myartspacecom-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"MyArtSpace.com interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a great email exchange with Brian Sherwin of myartspace.com<\/a> over the last few days, which culminated as an interview published on the myartspace blog<\/a>. There’re bits on my work,\u00c2\u00a0 dissertation, inspirations, even a question on Creative Commons and a few other little tidbits not published anywhere else to date. Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

snip \/ teaser:<\/p>\n

Art Space Talk: Nathaniel Stern<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Brian Sherwin [myartspace.com<\/a>]<\/strong>: Nathaniel, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read that you are inspired by the Interactive art of David Rokeby and Myron Kruger. Can you tell us about these influences? What else inspires you?<\/em><\/p>\n

NS<\/strong>: I believe Kruger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s core contribution to understanding interactivity was a concentration on action rather than perception – \u00e2\u20ac\u2122seeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in particular. He had little concern for illusion-based and simulated VR that replicated reality, and was more interested in stimulation – with a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dct\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 – and how people moved \/ getting them to move. I think Rokeby is brilliant in many ways, and his work, Very Nervous System<\/em> (1986-1990), was one of the first and most important pieces to accomplish an affective intervention in embodiment through this kind of inter-activity. But what inspires me most about him is his contrariness. He almost always tries \u00e2\u20ac\u2122something else,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 never really accepting the limits or taken for granted in any given medium.<\/p>\n


\nThe Odys Series: The Storyteller<\/em>, archival print on watercolor paper, 1189 x 841, edition 3, 2004
\n(screenshot from video)<\/small><\/p>\n

My other influences are fairly idiosyncratic: from Hiroshige, the Impressionists and Homer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s epic tales to Liam Gillick or Camille Utterback and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. I often turn to contemporary fiction, theory and philosophy in my thinking and making. I should also say that my wife, Nicole Ridgway, is the most wonderful muse and crit I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever met: my biggest fan and supporter precisely because she is also my harshest critic before a work is done\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

read more<\/a> (2500 word interview)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had a great email exchange with Brian Sherwin of myartspace.com over the last few days, which culminated as an interview published on the myartspace blog. There’re bits on my work,\u00c2\u00a0 dissertation, inspirations, even a question on Creative Commons and a few other little tidbits not published anywhere else to date. 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