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Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · 3d

Feral Font artist book, with @sashastiles

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · 11d

Shout out to my dear friend and collaborator @sashastiles, who has been pioneering poetry and digital arts for decades. It's been an honor (and super fun!) to work with you on Generation to Generation, and a thrill to see your successes in the past year and more.

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Sep 22

Join me in my studio on September 28, any time from 11-2. Dozens of studios will be open at Kenilworth Square East (KSE), plus lots of fun activities for all ages! I'm in KSE 535, address: 1925 East Kenilworth Pl, Milwaukee
https://uwm.edu/arts/event/kenilworth-open-studios/

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Sep 18

In Milwaukee?
☕ Free coffee + ideas!
📅 Fri Sept 19, 9am @ LEC Grind,
2100 E Kenwood blvd

Kickoff of Grounds for Inquiry, a new monthly innovation talk series.

Dr. Nathaniel Stern introduces LEC Fellows + shares work on Generation to Generation + Post-AI Futures.

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Sep 9

A big thank you to @sashastiles for representing poetry, language art, nuanced AI dialog, digital craft, and generosity at @themuseumofmodernart. Good luck with your opening and show (not that you need it).

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Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Sep 2

First day of classes for both me and my precious little ones!

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yeh, so I admittedly lost the plot a bit with my Compressionism throwbacks this week (these images were gonna be next: https://nathanielstern.com/rippling) because I was busy doing Director and Co-Chair things at UW-Milwaukee. But at least I looked real good doing it. #newSuit

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 27

In 2014, I premiered Rippling Images, where I had built a custom scuba rig for my scanner to produce underwater slit scan prints up close.

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 25

UWM receives $100,000 NEA grant to continue autism-focused creativity research uwm.edu/news/uwm-rec...

UWM receives $100,000 NEA grant to continue autism-focused creativity research

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to continue its pioneering research into

uwm.edu

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Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 22

Trust doesn’t always mean what we think it means. What does it mean to trust someone with your feelings, versus trusting them with your life, versus trusting them to get everything on your grocery list?

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 21

Throwback Thursday, remember when me and Scott @kildall beamed Twitter messages 22 light years away as an absurd performance about the depth and shallowness of social media? That was 2012.

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Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Empowering autistic creativity through art and technology" was just published, open access, in the Journal of Creativity online! Super proud of the ongoing work I'm doing with the Autism Brilliance Lab for Entrepreneurship at @uwm and Islands of Brilliance @iobmke
https://tinyurl.com/3yzjd2da

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Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 20

Do I feel like the Co-Chair of Art and Design and the Director of Academic Engagement and Creative Impact at our Entrepreneurship Center?
Maybe.
Probably.
But I definitely look the part.

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Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 15

I have been working for the last 3+ years with @sashastiles on #generationToGeneration, which premiered at the Krasl Art Center and will be traveling for the next few years. Look out for the documentary coming next week!
https://lumenprize.org/2025-literature-poetry-award-finalists/nathaniel-stern

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 14

Self compassion should be considered in time. This < 1m video shares an essential part of my recovery.

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 13

Hit 500 classes with my favorite studio @empoweryogamke (since they updated their system a few years ago anyhow… I've been going there a long time!). Locally owned and operated, founded by a woman of color, three hot yoga spaces in and around the Milwaukee area.

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 11

I love that I live in a world where Sasha Stiles, an artist with so much integrity, care, and talent, succeeds.

Check out A Living Poem at the Museum of Modern Art Sept 10 - Spring 2026.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5839

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 11

@sashastiles
#generationtogeneration #g2g #kindredtechnologies #aiart #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #sashastiles #artandscience #poetry #languageart

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 6

Olivia Rombak is awesome.

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 4

Who do you spend your time with?
#howyouspendyourtime #atomichabits #selfcompassion #letThem #biastowardsaction #designyourlife #hysyt #prototypinglife #trystuff #dostuff #milwaukee #mke #entrepreneurship #careertips

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 2

A 9-year-old, nuanced and wonderful piece of writing a friend just sent me: "Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless: On negotiating the false idols of neoliberal self-care"
https://thebaffler.com/latest/laurie-penny-self-care

Laurie Penny | Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless

Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for a modern mania for clean eating…

thebaffler.com

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 2

"The hard… work of self-care is about the everyday… getting through your life in a world that would prefer you… compliant. That’s the kind of love we’re terribly bad at giving ourselves, especially on the left."

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Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Aug 1

The Word After Us, with @sashastiles, is an AI-powered poem about the future of language, connection and understanding, “published” anew in each exhibition venue as a generative, modular mural. Metal, resin, hand-made paper, generative prints, digital prints, light boxes, and letterpress.

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Jul 31

Oral Binary w @sashastiles is a walled-off listening booth within the gallery, where visitors are invited to put on headphones and enjoy an intimate performance of generative spoken word poetry and music created in collaboration with AI — fusing ancient oral tradition with cutting-edge tools.

Nathaniel Stern @nathanielstern.bsky.social · Jul 30

The E-Waste Land w/ @sashastiles embodies the relationship between technology and remembrance. Entangled & obsolescing computers, projectors, phones, radios & other relics of human communication, painted white & inscribed w excerpts from an AI poem about progress & loss.

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