Bad at Sports Episode 244: Nathaniel Stern

This week: Duncan talks to artist/educator/agitator Nathaniel Stern.Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa, born 1977) is an experimental
installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has
produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and
immersive environments, networked art and multimedia physical theater
performances, to digital printing and collage, stone lithography and
slam poetry. He’s won many awards, fellowships, commissions and
residencies between South Africa, America, and all over Europe.
Nathaniel holds a design degree from Cornell University, studio-based
Masters in art from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU),
and research PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

Nathaniel has held solo exhibitions at the Johannesburg Art Gallery,
the Johnson Museum of Art, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the University
of the Witwatersrand, and several commercial and experimental galleries
throughout the US, South Africa and Ireland. His work has been shown at
festivals, galleries and museums internationally, including the Venice
Biennale, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, South African National
Gallery, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, International Print Center New York,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Modern and Contemporary Art Center (Hungary) and
Grahamstown National Arts Festival (South Africa). Public collections
include the Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New
Media (Cornell University), turbulence.org, Contemporary Irish Art
Society, and the Universities of South Africa (UNISA) and the
Witwatersrand; he is in private collections all over the world. Recent
features on Nathaniel’s work can be seen in the Leonardo Journal of Art,
Science and Technology, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, NY Arts and Art
South Africa magazines, Rhizome.org, PBS.org, the Wall Street Journal
and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.