Staten Island, NY | Milwaukee, WI
Also known as: nathanielstern
Nathaniel Stern is an artist and writer, Fulbrighter and professor, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced projects ranging from ecological, participatory online interventions, interactive, immersive mixed reality environments, to prints, sculptures, videos, performances and hybrid forms. His book, Interactive Art and Embodiment The Implicit Body as Performance, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art, and his ongoing work in industry has helped launch dozens of new businesses, products and ideas. Stern has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal, Guardian UK, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Washington Post, Daily News, BBCs Today show, Wired, Time, Fast Company, Scientific American, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Leonardo Journal, Rhizome, Furtherfield, Turbulence much more. According to Chicagos popular Bad at Sports art podcast, Stern has the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show, and South Africas Live Out Loud magazine calls him a prolific scholar as well as artist, whose work is quite possibly some of the most relevant around. Dubbed one of the Milwaukee's "avant-garde" (Journal Sentinel), Stern has been calledan interesting and prolific fixture (Artththrob.co.za) behind many multimedia experiments (Time.com), accessible and abstract simultaneously (Art and Electronic Media web site), someone with starry, starry eyes (Wired.com) who makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways (Bad at Sports). According to Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American, Sterns art is tremendous fun but also fascinating in how it is investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art. Specialties Media art production, history theory, especially the combination of interactive, video or networks with things like printmaking sculpture collaborative interdisciplinary design, engineering business practices lectures, workshops brainstorming sessions.
