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Ecological Aesthetics interview with Bad at Sports

Bad at Sports Episode 662: Nathaniel Stern

This week, Ryan and Dana are pleased to welcome Milwaukee-ite Nathaniel Stern back to the show. We discuss his latest art historical publication, Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics. Stern gives our hosts some insight into what he considers Ecological Aesthetics with examples and artists ranging from South African artist Doung Anwar Jahangeer, to the Overpass Light Brigade. Dana gets to say the word marginalia as she tries to discover Ryan’s Term Up the Volume. All this and clearly lots more on this episode of Bad at Sports.

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Ecological Aesthetics NPR feature

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‘Ecological Aesthetics’ Encourages Thinking Differently With The World Around Us

with MADELINE ANDRÉ on Lake Effect

How do you think about the objects around you? What do they do for you? What do they want? Are they art? These are some of the ways that local artist and author Nathaniel Stern wants us to think about our surroundings, our planet and the art within it.

His new book, “Ecological Aesthetics,” argues that all things — all matter in fact — argues for itself.

“It tells stories about artists and their artworks, in order to get us to think with and think differently with, the world around us,” notes Stern.

Nathaniel Stern is a Milwaukee-based visual artist and associate professor of art and design at UW-Milwaukee. He’s hosting a release for his book “Ecological Aesthetics” Thursday at Boswell Book Company.

He joined Lake Effect’s Madeline André to dissect what ecological aesthetics means.

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