Feral Font artist book, with @sashastiles

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.

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/

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

"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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Olivia Rombak is awesome.

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

"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."

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.

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.

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.

Still Moving w/ @sashastiles is an interactive “mirror” built from web cams, an AI poem and font, & custom motion tracking tech. Wave your hands & play in front of the camera(s); watch as your movements translate into poetry in real time, activating the space between human & machine

Weighing w @sashastiles is a material metaphor for the weight of technology’s ecological consequences. Each letter in the phrase “Mother Computer” is 3x drawn by AI & forged of recovered metal from a broad range of recycled media: electronic waste, mine tailings, & more

OMG welcome to middle-age ER visits and the amazing world of kidney stones!

#feralfont as an installation - with @sashastiles - invites us to explore the material practice of writing, ourselves and with AI.#generationtogeneration #g2g #kindredtechnologies #aiart #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #sashastiles #artandscience #poetry #languageart

Pro tip: get an NFC digital business card! Near Field Communication is what things like Apple Pay use; you can tap your info into a colleague's phone.

AI needs a more nuanced conversation. #generationtogeneration with @sashastiles is currently on view at @kraslartcenter in Michigan. #g2g #kindredtechnologies #aiart #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #sashastiles #artandscience #poetry #languageart

I don't GIF a f@©#!

With @sashastiles 0ral B1nary: Binary Ode is a poem, generative sound piece, and installation about choice, relationships, and the power behind listening and the spoken word. Currently on view at #kraslartcenter

New book alert! Delighted to share that GENERATION TO GENERATION is forthcoming from @VetroEditions. Co-created with @sashastiles, preorder now at Vetro. https://vetroeditions.com/products/generation-to-generation

You are you not your title. You are how you spend your time (and who you spend it with).

The Word After Us is a poem and installation about the future of language, art, technology, and their interrelations. And at its core, it is a celebration of my ongoing collaborations with @sashastiles.

A collaboration with @sashastiles, #stillMoving was initially released with the curated program on @artblocks_io and is now part of the traveling exhibition, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies

Success is where you find joy, and value; that's enough. #howyouspendyourtime #atomichabits #mindfulness #commonhumanity #biastowardsaction #designyourlife #hysyt #nathanielstern #prototypinglife #trystuff #dostuff #milwaukee #mke #artinspiration #artist

Nice weekend with some of the #bestPeople.

Falling Still, a 2010 collaboration with jewelry and metalsmith artist #yevgeniyakaganovich, saw 200 cast concrete feathers with steel stems, hung from fishing line, to make 7 planes that cohere into one image, of Yves Klein Leaping into the Void.

Weighing (Mother Computer) with @sashastiles is a concrete poem of over 40 hand-poured AI letters made from recycled and recovered metal waste, all seemingly springing from copper slag mining remnants.

You should strive to love how you spend most of your time, instead of only appreciating the outcomes of your job and life. #howyouspendyourtime #atomichabits #selfcompassion #selfcare #mindfulness #commonhumanity #biastowardsaction #designyourlife #hysyt #prototypinglife #trystuff #milwaukee #mke

Feral Font artist book. #asmr video. With @sashastiles.

#MaterializingNewMedia by Anna Munster - @sensesofperception on insta - was essential reading for my PhD & 1st book, on interactive art. Thrilled to get my hands on a copy of her latest, #DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning, + start reading

Ok I’m here.