{"id":1985,"date":"2009-07-24T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2009-07-24T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T20:24:36","slug":"more-compressionism-plus-bonus-life-and-art-details-in-short-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/more-compressionism-plus-bonus-life-and-art-details-in-short-review\/","title":{"rendered":"More Compressionism, plus bonus life and art details (in short review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. I almost forgot I had a blog. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?<\/p>\n

I’ve been working on a whole lot of art. Video-print-object things like this<\/a>, scanner stuff like that<\/a>, interactive installations like these<\/a> (actually, mostly been updating a few of these pieces to new versions with openFrameworks<\/a>, while brainstorming a new piece), and this<\/a> new mixed reality installation. All will be premiering in various parts of the world, hopefully (some are booked, some are not), within the next year. I’m off to NYC for a few weeks (drop a line if you wanna meet up), but in the meanwhile, enjoy this new documentation image for Compressionism (photo and design by Jesse Egan).<\/p>\n

\"Giverny<\/a>

Giverny of the Midwest (scanning lilies in Indiana, photo by Jesse Egan)<\/p><\/div>\n

Compressionism is a digital performance and analog archive, where I strap a custom-made scanner appendage and battery pack to my body, and perform images into existence. I might scan in straight, long lines across tables, tie the scanner around my neck and swing over flowers, do pogo-like gestures over bricks, or just follow the wind over water lilies in a pond. The dynamism of my relationship to the landscape is transformed into beautiful and quirky renderings, which are re-stretched and colored on my laptop, then produced as archival art objects using photographic processes. The above image was taken in South Bend, Indiana, as part of an art camping trip: two days in tents, with lots of tech, working towards a large-scale and gridded work reminiscent of Monet’s MOMA-owned masterpiece. The final piece will be 12 meters wide by 2 meters tall, and completed some time in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. I almost forgot I had a blog. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve been working on a whole lot of art. Video-print-object things like this, scanner stuff like that, interactive installations like these (actually, mostly been updating a few of these pieces to new versions with openFrameworks, while brainstorming a new piece), and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[6,3,26,7,38,39,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-compressionism","category-me","category-milwaukee-art","category-printmaking","category-stimulus","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-w1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":766,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/compressionism-revisited\/","url_meta":{"origin":1985,"position":0},"title":"Compressionism revisited","author":"nathaniel","date":"13 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"left: tree, 750 x 2000 mm, Sept. 2005 Compressionism is an ironic title for a series of works that use simple technologies to \"capture and compress\" subjects, then \"edits and exhibits\" them to explore different ways of looking. 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