Nathaniel STERN (b. 1977)
The Odys Series
2001-2004
Digital print x 6 and Video poem x 6
2min 22s upstandard; 2min 21s the storyteller; 2min 30s i-town; 2min 4s they may be giant; 1min 15s multiplicity; 2min 6s_noise
The Odys Series
2001-2004
Digital print x 6 and Video poem x 6
2min 22s upstandard; 2min 21s the storyteller; 2min 30s i-town; 2min 4s they may be giant; 1min 15s multiplicity; 2min 6s_noise
The Odys Series
2001-2004
Digital print x 6 and Video poem x 6
2min 22s upstandard; 2min 21s the storyteller; 2min 30s i-town; 2min 4s they may be giant; 1min 15s multiplicity; 2min 6s_noise
The Odys Series
2001-2004
Digital print x 6 and Video poem x 6
2min 22s upstandard; 2min 21s the storyteller; 2min 30s i-town; 2min 4s they may be giant; 1min 15s multiplicity; 2min 6s_noise
The Odys Series
2001-2004
Digital print x 6 and Video poem x 6
2min 22s upstandard; 2min 21s the storyteller; 2min 30s i-town; 2min 4s they may be giant; 1min 15s multiplicity; 2min 6s_noise
The Odys Series
2001-2004
Digital print x 6 and Video poem x 6
2min 22s upstandard; 2min 21s the storyteller; 2min 30s i-town; 2min 4s they may be giant; 1min 15s multiplicity; 2min 6s_noise
BIOGRAPHY
Nathaniel Stern is an American/South African interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including photography, interactive art, public art interventions, installation, video art, net.art and printmaking. He is currently a Professor of Art and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Stern graduated with a degree in Textiles and Apparel Design from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1999, and went on to study at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, graduating in 2001. He taught digital art at the University of the Witwatersrand, while practising as an artist in Johannesburg from 2001 – 2006. He holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, where he wrote a dissertation on interactive art and embodiment.
Stern’s early study of fashion design, slam poetry and music led to his interest in the relationships between the body and text, and eventually to that of broadly interpreted notions of performance and performativity, especially in relation to the body and embodiment. His work brings ideas around performance, embodiment, time and interactivity to more traditional forms like sculpture, drawing and print by combining them with digital and networked media.
Stern’s interactive art is centred around bodily provocations, often asking his viewers to ‘perform’ – whether publicly or privately. His pieces attempt to ‘get people to move in ways they normally wouldn’t’, and accent said movements in relation to their surroundings.
His work has been shown at the Venice Biennale; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Iziko South African National Gallery; the Johannesburg Art Gallery; the Pretoria Art Museum; the International Print Center, New York; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center; the Milwaukee Museum; the Museum of Wisconsin Art; the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts; and at festivals and performances around the world.