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Dear -empyre-,
Many many thanks to Fabi, Ricardo, Tony, Rhonda, Liat, Elia, Jon,
WhiteFeather, Lucian, and Joanna for contributing to the fascinating
conversation around MODERNITY'S SPELL. As always, the conversation can
continue as we introduce this new week.
This final week, we invoke the theme of QUEER PARANORMAL, the title of the
current show curated by the 2Chairs Collective and Anne Thompson at the
Bennington College Usdan Gallery (up until Dec. 07) -- to think about
queerness, haunting, the past, and social change.
So looking forward to reading everyone's thoughts.
M
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Two Chairs (curatorial collective, US)
Two Chairs is a curatorial enterprise made up of artists, curators and
thinkers. Since 2014, Two Chairs has produced multiple projects that stage
dynamic associations between artists and engage unexpected sites—including
a stream in Vermont, St. Mark’s Bookstore in NYC, and a Manhattan living
room in an old-school Yorkville apartment.
Rachel Stevens (US) she/her/hers
Rachel Stevens is an artist, researcher and educator based in New York
City. Her interdisciplinary and often collaborative work (sculpture,
photography, video, internet archives, artist books, spatial practices and
curatorial projects) investigates ecologies and geographies, moving images
and archives. Stevens has presented at art and academic venues from
Socrates Sculpture Park in NYC to ISEA in Durban, SA. Her work has been
supported with residencies and grants from Casa GIAP (MX), Fondazione
Antonio Ratti (Italy), iLand, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Polar
Circuit (Finland), Puffin Foundation, Signal Culture, Signal Fire and Works
on Water at Governors Island in NYC. She writes on media art and visual
culture, is on the editorial board of Millennium Film Journal and teaches
in the Hunter College Department of Film and Media. she/her/hers
Efrén Cruz Cortés
Efrén’s research is on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
developing theory and algorithms for ML tasks involving complex data. E
also studies the fair use of algorithms in an automated society. To
understand how to “fairly” use AI in society we must understand “fairness”
in a mathematical sense, as well as the limitations and potentialities of
artificially intelligent systems. E sees collaboration with artists and
performers as a way to both bring ideas to the public and to challenge our
rotten econo-political system from an aestheto-critical perspective.
Besides contributions regarding fairness in autoamtion, E’s expertise in AI
and ML will aid APRIORI in formulation of theory, analysis and computation
related to these topics, as well as contributions in network science. Efrén
somehow got a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Michigan. Efrén likes tacos.
Jessica Posner (US) she/ her/ hers
Jessica Posner is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, writer, educator,
energy worker, and organizer who practices resilience and radical
vulnerability as means for healing the self, body, and spirit. Posner’s
2017 experimental film, BUTTER BODY POLITIC, embraces butter as a metaphor
for a delicious, fat, feminist, queer body politic. Posner has been working
through the BUTTER BODY POLITIC since 2013, and created a variety of
buttery experiences including live performances, sculpture, text, video,
and workshops. In 2019, Posner edited all of the men out of the movie JAWS,
and then performed karaoke and theory about it.
Posner lives in Syracuse, NY, where she co-organizes the FLANNEL queer
women’s event at Wunderbar in Syracuse, NY. Posner previously taught
courses in Studio Art, Transmedia, and Writing at universities in Upstate
New York. She recently guest edited a section of exhibition reviews for the
special Stonewall 50th anniversary edition of QED: A Journal of GLBTQ
Worldmaking (Michigan State University Press).
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