----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Thanks to Kevin, Byron, Murat and Aviva for participating this week as we reflected on the notion of the fake in regards to science and art. I realized about midway through the week that the questions that arose were important and thoughtful ones that actually would make an excellent month long topic in the near future on -empyre-. Kevin reminded us of the trend where truth-claims of scientists have been undermined for political causes. It also reminded me of the fraud that big science and the pharmaceutical industry have been accused of where research studies have been manipulated for economic gain. Artists can provide the critical space using the tools and methodology of science to create critical spaces where the public can pause, reflect, and activate a sense of resistance.
Welcome to Randall Packer, Ana Valdes, Ana Munster and Lindsay Kelley. Ana Munster and Lindsay were our guests during week one and we welcome them back as we close down our topic. Ana Vales has been a long time participant of -empyre- and we welcome her back this week. Randall Packer participated in a panel with me at ISEA in Singapore last year. We warmly welcome all of them to further discuss Fake News within a global context. Bios are below. Lindsay Kelley (AU) Working in the kitchen, Lindsay Kelley's art practice and scholarship explore how the experience of eating changes when technologies are being eaten. Her first book is Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience (London: IB Tauris, 2016). Bioart Kitchen emerges from her work at the University of California Santa Cruz (Ph.D in the History of Consciousness and MFA in Digital Art and New Media). Kelley is a Co-Investigator with the KIAS funded Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory: Arts and the Anthropocene (University of Alberta, Canada). Anna Munster (US) Anna Munster has been at UNSW Art and Design since 2001 on a full-time tenured basis. She is an active researcher with two sole published books: An Aesthesia of Networks (MIT Press, 2013), and Materializing New Media (Dartmouth College Press 2006). Her current research interests are: networked experience, media arts and theory, data and radical empiricism, nonhuman and perception, new pragmatist approaches to media andArt. Anna regularly collaborates artistically with Michele Barker in the School of Media Arts, COFA. Barker and Munster are working on a large-scale multi-channel interactive work, HocusPocus, which explores the relations between perception, magic and the brain. They have been awarded a New Work Grant, 2010, from the Australia Council for the Arts to realise this work. Recent collaborative projects include: Duchenne’s smile (2-channel DV installation, 2009), The Love Machine II (photomedia installation, 2008–1¬0), Struck (3-channel DV installation, 2007). She is a partner in a large international project, Immediations <http://senselab.ca/wp2/immediations/>, hosted by Concordia University, Montreal and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada. She has held two ARC Discovery research grants in new media and art: 'The Body-Machine Interface in New Media Art from 1984 to the Present, 2003–5' and 'Dynamic Media: Innovative social and artistic uses of dynamic media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990'. She is also an investigator on an ARC Linkage project, 'Australian Media Arts Database', which will utilise innovative user-lead and open source databases to create a history of Australian media arts in an international context. She is a founding member of the online peer-reviewed journal The Fibreculture Journal <http://fibreculturejournal.org/> and has co-edited two special issues on Distributed Aesthetics <http://seven.fibreculturejournal.org/>and Web 2.0 <http://fourteen.fibreculturejournal.org/>. and on the editorial advisory board of LeonardoBooks (MIT Press), Inflexions, CTheory, Convergence, and Scan Randall Packer (US) Since the 1980s, multimedia artist, composer, writer and educator Randall Packer has worked at the intersection of interactive media, live performance, and networked art. He has received critical acclaim for his socially and politically infused critique of media culture, and has performed and exhibited at museums, theaters, and festivals internationally, including: NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo), ZKM Center for Art & Media (Karlsruhe), Walker Art Center, (Minneapolis), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), The Kitchen (New York City), ZERO1 Biennial (San Jose), Transmediale Festival of Media (Berlin), and Theater Artaud (San Francisco). Packer is a writer and scholar in new media, most notably the co-editor of Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality and the author of his long running blog: Reportage from the Aesthetic Edge. He has written extensively for publications including: MIT Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, the Leonardo Journal for the Arts & Sciences, LINK, ART LIES, Hyperallergic, and Cambridge University Press. He holds an MFA and PhD in music composition and has taught multimedia at the University of California Berkeley, Maryland Institute College of Art, American University, California Institute of the Arts, Johns Hopkins University, The Museum of Modern Art, and most recently at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. At NTU, he is an Associate Professor of Networked Art where he founded and directs the Open Source Studio (OSS) project, an educational initiative exploring collaborative online research and teaching in the media arts. At NTU, he organized the Art of the Networked Practice | Online Symposium, a global event which featured participants from more than 40 countries around the world. Currently he is organizing the Third Space Network (3SN), an Internet broadcast channel for live media arts and creative dialogue. Ana Valdes (UR) Ana Valdes writer Art curator and social anthropologist born in Uruguay and political prisoner during several years. Lived in Sweden and became engaged in the Palestinian struggle for an own state. Now she is working with a former inmate of Guantanamo writing a book and making a film. Renate Ferro Visiting Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Art Tjaden Hall 306 rfe...@cornell.edu _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
