[-empyre-] empyre subscribers: we want you to tell us about your new projects and post your bio
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Just a quick reminder that on the 30th of June we will be closing down this special month of empyre. Whether you are a regular participant or a quiet lurker PLEASE let us know what you are working on now. What are your interests? Post a short bio as well. After more than 10 years of empyre we want to archive what is happening now! Hope to hear from more of you. Tim and Renate -- 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
Re: [-empyre-] empyre subscribers: we want you to tell us about your new projects and post your bio
--empyre- soft-skinned space--OK, I'm mostly a lurker, a few contributions in the past. Susan Elizabeth Ryan came to art history by way of her studies with members of Fluxus at Rutgers University. Now, she holds a Ph.D.and has taught contemporary and new media art history for more than two decades but she practices her scholarship with the critical irony she learned from Robert Watts and Geoff Hendricks. She published two straightforward monographs on American painters (Marsden Hartley and Robert Indiana), before focusing her teaching and research on new media and art and technology studies. She works in the American South. She directed the Baton Rouge Video Project for three years and served on the Steering Committee for the LSU Laboratory for Creative Arts and Technologies, now part of the Center for Computational Studies (CCT), where she remains an Affiliate. After losing everything in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and spending a week among its victims in New Orleans after the storm, she began new research on wearable technology and has since lectured internationally on dress and technology. She has collaborated with Empyre member Patrick Lichty on numerous occasions, on sessions at CAA and ISEA, editions of Intelligent Agent, and in 2008 on a runway-style exhibition entitled Social Fabrics. She is currently completing a historical and cultural study of wearable technology that will be published by MIT Press in 2014, current title: Garments of Paradise: Wearable Discourse in the Digital Age. SER On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Renate Ferro wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space--Just a quick reminder that on the 30th of June we will be closing down this special month of empyre. Whether you are a regular participant or a quiet lurker PLEASE let us know what you are working on now. What are your interests? Post a short bio as well. After more than 10 years of empyre we want to archive what is happening now! Hope to hear from more of you. Tim and Renate -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: r...@cornell.edumailto:r...@cornell.edu URL: http://www.renateferro.nethttp://www.renateferro.net/ http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.nethttp://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net/ Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.nethttp://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.aumailto:empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] empyre subscribers: we want you to tell us about your new projects and post your bio
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi Empyrians -- Tim and Renate have asked what projects we are working on so here goes- I've been working with the Kinect Camera for the past couple of years. I have 3 kinect projects I'm working on. I am developing a post browser interface that uses 3D space and infrared 3d space as a physical/virtual interface. I believe that the printing/browser interface is 20 years old and really irrelevant to our data environment. I share some of and I am inspired by data visualization aesthetics but I find it rather impersonal. I think one of the tasks of artist in the 21st century is to humanize and physicalize data interface and retrieval. http://nujus.net/~nublog/?p=578 -- I am working on a collaboration with Rhys Chatham (well known minimalist musician) and Raphaele Shirley (light artist/sculptor) in a three person collaboration. I am using my 3D virtual body to control Raphaele's light sculpture's. In this case I am moving in response to Rhys's music and performing her light sculptures. -- And I am working on 3 projects for Santiago, Chile. One is to rebuild a Gordon Matta-Clark work in the museum there. Another is to be shown at the New Media Bienalle in Chile. I will be doing 3D Karaoke in Spanish. http://nujus.net/~nujus/gh_04/gallery20.html And finally I am developing a new media workshop at the art school of Santiago for the Spring of next year. -- My bio is here -- http://nujus.net/~nujus/gh_04/bio.html --- On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Renate Ferro wrote: LEASE let us know what you are working on now. What are your interests? ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- bios | listserv as historical document
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I've lurked on empyre since the early 2000s, starting as a new media artist and Guggenheim curator, and now an Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Maine. As a co-founder of Still Water (http://still-water.net/), I've helped build The Pool, ThoughtMesh, the Cross-Cultural Partnership, and an ecovillage on the Maine coast. On empyre I've probably been most outspoken about future threats to new media, such as copyright lockdown, academic co-optation, and especially technological and cultural obsolescence--all specters that have haunted my own creative work. I have the privilege of being an advisor on Tim Murray's Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects at Cornell. This preservation research dovetails well with the new Digital Curation program I've helped start this year at the University of Maine (http://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu). All the online courses are online; in addition to a two-year graduate certificate, we host periodic hit-and-run events. One of our webinars last spring featured Christiane Paul speaking about the Douglas Davis case profiled this month in The New York Times. Since we're talking about the historical role of a particular email list, we shouldn't forget the threat of academic myopia. Don't get me wrong: books and articles have a long shelf life and have made important contributions to the understanding of our emerging field over the last three decades. I myself am co-authoring the book Re-collection with Richard Rinehart this coming year (http://re-collection.net). But it's critical not to forget the role that listservs and other informal networks of communication have played in this field. One arena where this plays out is in academic promotion and tenure guidelines, which until recently tended to ignore the Internet altogether. At the University of Maine, we explicitly wrote ours to embrace contributions to online discussions and other dialogic forms of scholarly communication and artistic intervention. These New Criteria for New Media became one of the most downloaded articles of Leonardo magazine: http://thoughtmesh.net/publish/275.php Re-collection argues that museums and textbooks aren't yet very good at reconstructing the historical context for creative work. Fortunately, a few universities and archives have given communication networks like empyre the weight they deserve. When I consulted the prestigious Langlois Foundation's research database in 2005 I was pleased to find numerous citations from email lists and Web sites. For example, although Alex Galloway has authored journal articles and books from prestigious publishers like MIT, the two documents that represented his writing in the Langlois database were both from email lists. Since then, the Internet archive's Jason Scott has done important work rescuing historic BBSs. I hope this time capsule of empyre's can draw further attention to the role of electronic dialogue in shaping creative and critical expression. jon @jonippolito ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
