----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Dear empyreans, Welcome to Week 2 on empyre. This is your chance to send us your biography and your current projects. We have heard from some of you but whether you are a regular participant, a lurker, or you just collect our posts we want to hear about what you are working on now. Are you an artist, theorist, programmer or something in between? We want to hear about what you are writing, creating or conceiving.
An Archival Event: Who is –empyre? Noting -empyre- soft-skinned space’s passage through its tenth-year anniversary, (January 2012) we have been spending time cruising through the layered archive of posts during that time. http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/ -empyre- has grown from a small organic collective begun by Melinda Rackam to a large international listserv, now with over 1600 members. One of Melinda's brilliant moves was to link the list serve to software that automatically archives each post for future access -- this was quite a prescient feat a decade ago. As we have been thinking of interesting ways to mark the passage into the next decade, as -empyre- continues to morph and grow in the environment of Web 2.0 (now clearly with many, many more lurkers and passive participants than active interlocutors), we thought it might be nice to take a moment to archive the projects of our members. This is an open invitation to all of our subscribers. We invite you to submit a post with: 1) a brief bio, with contact information 2) a two-paragraph description of your practice, current/recent projects, or writing or curatorial activities We encourage our pioneering members as well as those of you who may have just joined us. We are very open about content (suspending for the month our listserv rules against self-promotion of shows, conferences, and publications) and expect that we all will be enlivened by learning more about our member participants. Ideally our goal is to seed the ground for new discussion topics and new featured guests. Thanks to all of you, Renate, Tim, Simon and Patrick -- 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 -- 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
