Nathaniel Stern is an internationally exhibited installation artist, net.artist and performance poet. His interactive installations have won awards in New York, South Africa and Australia, and his net.art has been featured in festivals all over Europe, Asia and the US.
Nathaniel's collaborative physical theatre and multimedia performance work has won three FNB Vita Awards - including Best Presentation of a New Contemporary Work - and has been featured on the main stage at theGrahamstown Festival in South Africa. His poetry repertoire includes the US National Poetry Slam competition and the HIV/AIDS Arts, Media & Film Festival (South Africa).
He currently lives and works both in and from Johannesburg, as an adjunct faculty member of MCAD, external MA lecturer and supervisor at the Wits School of Arts (University of the Witwatersrand) and freelance lecturer at Newtown's Anti-Retroviral Theatre program and The South African School Of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance.
Nathaniel received his undergraduate degree in Textiles and Apparel Design from Cornell University, and his Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
Looking back on my experience here at Cornell, I am kind of picking it apart and looking at the design process that went here. Now I am more of an artist than a designer is but I think there is this artificial separation that happens between design and art and that's really how things are taught he...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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