Digital Shorts

Last year, I took classes with professors Lindemann and Shimon, Associate Professors of Art at Lawrence University, in digital processes. These classes focused on an array of themes, old and recent, in New Media. It was in these classes that I discovered Avant-Garde film makers and was introduced to Fluxus artists and where I researched more recent new media artists like Brian Knep.

Over the course of the year, it was required of us to upload videos and picture to YouTube, and other websites on the internet. The basic idea was to use the internet as a means of getting our work out there. It really supported the idea that anyone can upload their work to the internet a begin cultivating followers, prehaps with the hopes of obtaining internet fame.

I've posted a link below to some of my digital shorts that I created. Most of the videos on there are split into two parts, or two stories, both parts complement one another while still being able to stand alone, I was influenced by non-linear narrative, drawing inspiration from writers such as Borges and Calvino.

Nick Michael Stahl on YouTube

I plan on continuing with making digital shorts this year. In preparation for my senior exhibition and Mudd Gallery Show.

-N.M.S.