----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Anyone following twitter on the demonstrations? Occupy wall street is calling for a massive day of demonstrations next weekend. Anyone have information about that? Also thought I would post this Newsweek article about the protests worldwide including Tokyo.
http://www.newsweek.com/ferguson-eric-garner-protests-sprawl-worldwide-289867 On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Ana Valdés <agora...@gmail.com> wrote: > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- > I was now on the live Ustream and saw Denver march, amazing and encouraging > Ana > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Renate Ferro <renatefe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- >> aggregate, permeate, migrate. >> Thanks Patty for your insightful post. >> >> Tonight Tim and I are in New York City staying in midtown just a few >> blocks from Grand Central Station. It has been incredibly rainy here >> in the city but just a few minutes ago as our taxi skirted between >> hoards of police cars with lights and sirens blaring, most traffic was >> being diverted away from Grand Central. Via twitter we found out that >> there is a massive die in in Grand Central Station. Reports are that >> there are a hundred or so mass demonstrators but the spectacle is >> created by the flashing lights and non-stop sirens and noise blasts of >> the police. >> >> I am wondering if our subscribers have any thoughts about twitter's >> force in not only in catalyzing the protestors #ICantBreathe >> #EricGarner and but also those of the police actions. >> >> What about Vine and Instagram? >> >> Are urban and regional/local movements being organized, catalyzed in >> similar ways or are their other distinctions? >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Patricia Zimmermann <pa...@ithaca.edu> >> wrote: >>> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- >>> DISPATCHES FROM ITHACA NEW YORK USA >>> >>> Permeable media ecologies in the age of I CAN'T BREATHE protests: >>> >>> Local independent online only newspaper sources from students newspaper >>> spot reporting multimedia, a student print journalist, and an amateur cell >>> phone vertical-composed video of speech by Tom Rochon, President of Ithaca >>> College, in a story about Ithaca College demonstrations in the campus >>> center and administration building Thursday December 4. >>> >>> Collaging sources, perspectives, and recycling here. >>> >>> I am noticing all of the push outs via email forwards, listservs, and >>> social media of the major demonstrations and actions in urban areas with >>> all their spectacle. >>> >>> But I find the multiplying of these smaller, localized, microterritory >>> demonstrations so compelling as they aggregate, permeate, migrate. >>> >>> http://ithacavoice.com/2014/12/student-protesters-hold-demonstration-confront-ithaca-colleges-president/ >>> >>> Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D. >>> Professor of Screen Studies >>> Roy H. Park School of Communication >>> Codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival >>> >>> Ithaca College >>> 953 Danby Road >>> Ithaca, New York 14850 USA >>> >>> http://faculty.ithaca.edu:83/patty/ >>> http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff >>> >>> >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >>> <empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of Renate Ferro >>> <renatefe...@gmail.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2014 9:21 AM >>> To: soft_skinned_space >>> Subject: [-empyre-] Welcome Patty Zimmermann >>> >>> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- >>> Over the next couple of days we will be joined by Patty Zimmerman. We >>> welcome Patty to empyre once again. We are always so appreciative of >>> her participation on empyre and respect not only her political and >>> moral compass but the amazing work she does at our neighborhood >>> institution Ithaca College and the curatorial work she does with >>> FLEFF, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Welcome Patty. >>> >>> Patricia Zimmermann (US)is professor of screen studies at Ithaca >>> College. She also serves codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental >>> Film Festival (http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff), a multidisciplinary >>> festival that embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of >>> its forms-- economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, >>> technological, aesthetic and sustainable development--through film, >>> video, new media, installation, performance, literature, music, >>> panels, and dialogues. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social >>> History of Amateur Film (Indiana)and States of Emergency: >>> Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (Minnesota) as well as coeditor of >>> Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories >>> (California). With coauthor Dale Hudson, her forthcoming book is >>> Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and >>> Locative Places (Palgrave), to be published in Spring 2015, which >>> examines over 130 new media and performance projects from across the >>> globe. She was the Ida Beam Professor in Cinema and Comparative >>> Literature at the University of Iowa and the Shaw Foundation Professor >>> of New Media in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang >>> Technological University in Singapore. She also serves as an envoy for >>> documentary film and new media for the American Film Showcase of the >>> US State Department. She has published over 200 scholarly essays and >>> journalistic articles on documentary, media history, screen theory, >>> and new media in Screen, Genders, Journal of Film and Video, >>> Afterimage, Framework, Asian Communications Quarterly, Cinema Journal, >>> Wide Angle, Cultural Studies, DOX, Film History, Socialist Review, >>> Journal of Communications Inquiry, Afterimage, The Moving Image. The >>> Independent, Gannett Newspapers, Afterimage. Website: >>> http://faculty.ithaca.edu/patty/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> empyre forum >>> empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu >>> _______________________________________________ >>> empyre forum >>> empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu >> _______________________________________________ >> empyre forum >> empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu > > > > -- > http://www.twitter.com/caravia15860606060 > http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ > http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia > http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 > > > > cell Sweden +4670-3213370 > cell Uruguay +598-99470758 > > > "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth > with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you > will always long to return. > — Leonardo da Vinci > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, (contracted since 2004) Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <rfe...@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/ _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
