{"id":5877,"date":"2018-02-16T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2018-02-16T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:52:22","slug":"phossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/phossils\/","title":{"rendered":"Phossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/artwork\/phossils\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5879\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Archaeology.jpg?resize=850%2C412\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Archaeology.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Archaeology.jpg?resize=620%2C300&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Archaeology.jpg?resize=768%2C372&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Archaeology.jpg?resize=940%2C456&amp;ssl=1 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello world! I have a baby. And am getting married next week. So blogging has been slow&#8230;. But then, there&#8217;s this new stuff I&#8217;m excited about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Phossils <\/em>are, more or less, fossilized phones. Here I subject media devices to extreme heat and cold, artificial pressure and geological time, or other intense conditions that weather and turn these materials into\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <em>something<\/em><em>else<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0Through research, experimentation, and craft, I have tried to transform phones into crude oil, coal, or other fossil fuels, into synthetic archives and simulated relics for a future time. Cook, freeze, burn, smash, blend, and more\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and put the results on exhibit, in beakers and tubes, on pedestals and stands, and\/or as archaeological finds.<\/p>\n<p>Yay, art!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/phossils\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ijH8kcW0RS\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/artwork\/phossils\/\">Phossils<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/artwork\/phossils\/embed\/#?secret=ijH8kcW0RS\" data-secret=\"ijH8kcW0RS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Phossils&#8221; &#8212; nathaniel stern\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello world! I have a baby. And am getting married next week. So blogging has been slow&#8230;. But then, there&#8217;s this new stuff I&#8217;m excited about. Phossils are, more or less, fossilized phones. Here I subject media devices to extreme heat and cold, artificial pressure and geological time, or other intense conditions that weather and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5879,"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":"Phossils","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,66,7,38,29,5],"tags":[63,52,56,59,62,140,64,90,165],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-culture","category-me","category-milwaukee-art","category-research","category-technology","tag-aesthetics","tag-art","tag-culture","tag-digital-studio","tag-ecology","tag-milwaukee","tag-nathaniel-stern","tag-technology","tag-world-after-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Archaeology.jpg?fit=1000%2C485&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9blZT-phossils","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5972,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/30\/ecological-aesthetics-advance-copy-just-arrived\/","url_meta":{"origin":5877,"position":0},"title":"Ecological Aesthetics advance copy just arrived!","author":"nathaniel","date":"30 May 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"So excited that my advance copy of Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics has arrived! 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