work samples
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net.art project, 2003 and ongoing
BBP, orchestrated by artists nathaniel stern and Christian Nerf,
is a Public Investigation seeking the opinions of world citizens
in the current sociopolitical climate. Snippets of evidence are
posted to the web in the form of video and sans-copyright (reproducible)
images. The Blair Bush Project is a Johannesburg-based, international
forum for input and output surrounding the WW-III discourse. More
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net.art site, 2000
hektor.net is hektor's navigable artsite of photography, spoken
word and video poetry. While viewers surf the site, hektor attempts
to re-member: embody a past in the present. Floating memories, re-presented
as art pieces, congeal in different patterns; from the "ruins
of memory," viewers re-invent the past and its meaning, piecing
together a story for themselves. However, similar to Julio Cortazar's
Hopscotch, where readers can tackle any chapter, in any order, to
assemble a whole story, this narrative is built by the listener,
according to which pieces they have seen, in what context, and in
which order. Viewers continually bring new insights to possibility
by juxtaposing visited and revisited pieces and ideas several times
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interactive installation, 2003
stuttering proposes a space which accents how we effect, and are
affected by, conversation and comprehension. Using body tracking
software to trigger spoken and animated text, it suggests that stillness
and stumbling play a role in the un/realized potentials of memory
and storytelling.
Intended for one-on-one, personal experiences, stuttering creates
a tense environment through its inescapable barrage of stuttering
sound and visual stuttering: noise. Only by lessening their participation
will the information explosion slow into an understandable text
for the viewer; the piece asks for unhurried interactions, concentrated
listening. Minimal movements, and the phrases they trigger, literally
create new meaning. More
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re-enfleshed digital cut-outs, 2003 and
ongoing
In serial faces, I use a computer to limit data, to break down each
iconic facial image into a limited gamut of colors. I then use this
simplified pattern as a guide with other physical materials, to
re-colorize and re-texturize the original image, for a much more
complex, or enfleshed, form of communication. More
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interactive / experiential art object,
2001
The tuning fork, designed for minimal overtones and a closeness
to 'pure pitch,' is normally an absolute reference point against
which all tones can be tested. As such, it may represent any universal
standard or ideal against which we measure. standardized converts
this ordinarily static note into a dynamically altering pitch, questioning
absolutism, and creating a relational standard that moves with and
against its viewers. More
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For more work by nathaniel stern,
please visit the gallery
page on nathanielstern.com
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