visual poet: Laura Kerr interviewer: Elisabeth Sweet LK: For (–otherworld), could we show the images without writing questions or answers, letting these three speak for themselves? “Garden View” (2022); “Ocean View” (2022);...
visual poet: Laura Kerr interviewer: Elisabeth Sweet //chat process for (–local): Laura Kerr sends past artwork to Elisabeth Sweet; work prompts question from ES; LK answers with artwork description; LK: The Seine River (2022) Levels, Lines and...
visual poet: Laura Kerr interviewer: Elisabeth Sweet //chat process for (–global): ES asks LK a variety of questions about nature + technology + place. //to explore ‘global environments’, LK uses artwork she made in the past and describes them...
introducing { Laura Kerr: var(verse); exploring nature + technology + place in 3 environments: –global; –local; –otherworld; //playing with themes of rereading + dialogue over time Laura & Elisabeth Sweet surveyed regions of Laura’s work...
A museum acquisition of artwork is a BIG deal. In web3, we’ve celebrated moments such as Cozomo de Medici’s donation to the LACMA and the Centre Pompidou’s acquisition of several NFTs. Museum acquisitions are a signal to the wider world that says: “These cultural...
Books have been my constant companions from as far back as I can remember. I am an only child, and I lived six hours away from the rest of my extended family growing up. I spent a lot of time entertaining myself as a child by reading, and I developed close bonds with...
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which...
“At night, I do the dream work. And then I try to reconstruct fragments of them using an artificial intelligence model trained on my photos and obsessions, spanning my childhood right up to the present day” – aurèce vettier describes le travail des rêves, a collection...
“Poetry stops us and gives us something in common. I still believe that we could get poetry more into the public world.” — Marie Howe, American poet and NY State Poet Laureate (2012-2014) The question of whether art should be a public good is debated,...
Nathaniel Stern is an awkward artist, writer, and teacher who likes awkward art, writing, and students. He is a Fulbright, NSF, and NEA grant recipient, a Professor of Art, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an Associate...
