----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Thanks so much to Paul, Heidi and Claire for posting this week on -empyre. We continue to talk about Beatriz' life and work this last week of February. In New York on this Sunday the 24th many of Beatriz' family and friends will gather at Postmasters Gallery. For those of us too far away to travel to New York City we send our sincerest sympathies to all of you. Tim and I are hoping that many of you who have not added to this discussion in honor of Beatriz will do so before we close the discussion on Thursday the 28th.
This week on empyre we invite special guests Natalie Jeremijenko and Kathy High. Their biographies are below. Welcome to both of you! Kathy High is Associate Professor Of Video and New Media in the Department of Arts, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. She is an interdisciplinary artist, educator working with biology and time based arts. In the last ten years she has become interested in working with living systems, animals and art, considering thesocial, political and ethical dilemmas of biotechnology and surrounding industries. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. Her art works, have been shown in film festivals, galleries and museums, including Documenta 13, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, among others. Her co-edited book The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, with Sherry Miller Hocking of the Experimental Television Center and Mona Jimenez of the Moving Image Preservation Program at NYU, will be published by Intellect Books (UK), 2013. The book presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s, and how that history of collaborations among inventors, designers and artists has affected contemporary tool-makers. Natalie Jeremijenko Beatriz and I both worked on technological opportunities for social and ecological change including : air quality projects using sensors attached to pigeons and robotic dogs respectively towards redesigning human/animal relationship; both worked on developing alternative biomedical institutions that recognized participatory research and food and nutrition-based work.... and the convivial contexts for rethinking these. Animal behavior, gmo food, representations of cancer .... it seemed we were automatically attracted to similar issues, and of course I could not have been luckier in this respect. Aside from the professional overlap I loved her as a friend .... she was incredibly dear to me. Named one of the most influential women in technology 201, one of the inaugural top young innovators by MIT Technology Review, and a current Creative Capital awardee, Natalie Jeremijenko directs the Environmental Health Clinic, and is an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department, NYU, affiliated with the Computer Science Department and Environmental Studies program. Previously she was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, Faculty of Engineering at Yale University, a visiting professor at Royal College of Art in London, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Public Understanding of Science at Michigan State University. Her degrees are in biochemistry, engineering, neuroscience and History and Philosophy of Science. Jeremijenko was included in the 2011 Venice Bieniale, the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American Art, also in 1997, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Triennial 2006-7. In 2010 Neuberger Museum produced a retrospective exhibition surveying recent work, entitled Connected Environments; in addition to a solo exhibition entitled X in November, 2010 at the University of Technology Sydney. Currently on view: Civic Action, an exhibition of urban plans, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Other recent exhibitions include Civic Action @ Noguchi Museum; talk2me exhibition at MOMA, and the ongoing Cross(x)Species Adventure Club. -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <r...@cornell.edu> URL: http://www.renateferro.net http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
