[-empyre-] #remakemistresses

2020-11-03 Thread melinda rackham
-book-club-elvis-richardson-melinda-rackham/ #remakemistresses responds directly to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shutdown of the arts industry in Australia and Internationally. Following the lead of @tussenkunstenquarantaine‘s Stay At Home Challenge! on Instagram, the Rijksmuse

[-empyre-] Fwd: Bubbles and bodies

2020-04-08 Thread Dr Melinda Rackham
hose with skin in the game would? But in the near future will contemplative luxury even exist? Over to our next guests >>> Melinda warm regards, Melinda Melinda Rackham Artist & Author, PhD Adjunct Research Professor Art, Architecture and Design Univers

[-empyre-] Bubbles and bodies

2020-04-08 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Renate: > Others are finding themselves needing to suspend their art projects and > critical pursuits in other areas to dwell on the suddenness, danger, loss, > and peril wrought globally by COVID-19. I am an other. Thank you for having

[-empyre-] Contagion

2020-04-03 Thread melinda rackham
st > two guests are copied below. > >Week 1: April 1st- 7th >Christina McPhee and Melinda Rackham with Renate Ferro, Junting Huang and > Tim Murray > > > Moderator’s Biographies: > >Renate Ferro’s creative work resides within the areas of e

Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 3]

2018-06-19 Thread Melinda Rackham
this heart-felt searching, most companies ask if they can retain our DNA records for medical research .. building a Biodata Empire, and most people, thinking they are helping their fellows, say yes. happy testing Kerri Anne Burgess as I was on my birth certificate before I was legally transfor

Re: [-empyre-] OPEN POST -empyre-LIFE AND WORK IN THE DIGITAL AGE: can you add to this bibliography

2018-05-02 Thread Melinda Rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Some recent references: Runway #32 Re/production, edited by VNS Matrix, 2016 http://runway.org.au/archive/32-reproduction/ Cyberfeminist Manifesto VNS Matrix, 1991 https://vnsmatrix.net/the-cyberfeminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century/

Re: [-empyre-] ListServ

2018-02-15 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you for posting your perspective Sarah, It’s great to read. Can I ask how you research for information when u have to complete assignments or projects at uni? - is it through publications in print/ online? - discussions with peers i

[-empyre-] Vale Adrian Miles - -empyre-'s second facilitator

2018-02-08 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Today I bear the sad news that our colleague and friend Adrain Miles has passed away at the weekend. He had a heart attack while riding his bike. I have known Adrian for several decades both on and offline. I can't recall which conferen

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-06 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- And I still have a black on black M I N D S P A C E Tshirt in my early net artifacts archive ! M Sent from my iPad > On 7 Feb 2018, at 1:46 am, patrick lichty wrote: > > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- >

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-05 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello to the empyrean, I am always a little reticent to talk about -empyre- as I often think I have nothing new to say on the topic, however this discussion has rekindled an old intent with a new perspective. I have just finished an essa

Re: [-empyre-] keeping Contamination open through Sunday.

2017-12-03 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thank you all, hey what wondrous and scary things I’ve learnt this month and thanks Ian - its a joy to see a contaminated browser Ive spent the past two days pulling out Buffel grass while its easier after the rain - very satisfying.

[-empyre-] mushrooms, oysters & creeping clouds

2017-11-29 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Ben wrote: “I think this is incredibly ripe territory for creative exploration. How might we use mushrooms as material and also as metaphor? Perhaps all the information we need in order to de-contaminate ourselves and our planet is alrea

[-empyre-] becoming symborg - two decades later

2017-11-28 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello again –empyre- and all our other guests I want to say something about flour and dough and weeds and mushrooms and the folly of Onkalo but first Bishnu, Andrea and Rahul I am very interested in the work you have been doing in terms

[-empyre-] seepage

2017-11-27 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello everyone- thank you for inviting me to join this discussion Renate - its very close to me on a number of fronts and depths. Ive resonated with the discussion so far and am delighted to have new links to explore so thank you other g

Re: [-empyre-] Eating dirt vs. biting the dust.... (and the insect layer)

2017-10-09 Thread Melinda Rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- thank you all for your thoughtful and deeply felt resonances — looking fwd to reading more I saw a very moving spoken word performance on roadkill "Badger Dissonance" earlier this year at "In Other Tongues" a three-day creative summit

[-empyre-] another year...

2016-01-17 Thread Melinda Rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi there empyre, thank you for the invite to post, as like Tracy and Simon I’m a bit of lurker these days. Not that I’m away from the computer, rather I’m immersed in acquiring new bodies of knowledge for my various writing projects. So

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3:Welcome back Melinda Rackham.

2015-02-27 Thread Melinda Rackham
able to find out later about its > sources. > > This past month has been a banner one for me. To see so both Melinda and > Tracey and other former regulars come back to us has been nostalgic and > memorable. Hope you will be able to make one more post Melinda before you > head out.

Re: [-empyre-] on feminism and the cyclical nature of tools and technologies

2015-02-27 Thread Melinda Rackham
le to do it as well. meanwhile email is > direct, quick & easy, so it doesn't surprise me at all that mailing lists > continue to be the places where discussions happen :) > > On 26/02/15 8:04 41AM, Melinda Rackham wrote: >> And in Argentina the Net Party co-founded in M

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3:Welcome back Melinda Rackham.

2015-02-26 Thread Melinda Rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Kath - yes propose a month on something networked you want to talk about!! I wanted to pull out some texts on vulnerability and giddiness Renate.. >> The hope for a space that can and will work out new >> potentials is a utopia but I thi

Re: [-empyre-] on feminism and the cyclical nature of tools and technologies

2015-02-25 Thread Melinda Rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- hey thanks for your thoughtful responses.. Randall if you build it they will come - Randall is co-chairing Art of the Networked Practice an Online Symposium NTU are hosting in the beginning of April using Adobe Connect, with presentati

[-empyre-] on feminism and the cyclical nature of tools and technologies

2015-02-25 Thread Melinda Rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- hello again.. Of FemTechNet Anne wrote “Our mantra became: “WHO you learn with is as important as what you learn.” What a wonderful initiative. Tracey posted many great project links as well. Reality creates Reality - the world is stil

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3:Welcome back Melinda Rackham.

2015-02-24 Thread Melinda Rackham
on the cyclical nature of tools and technologies. Melinda > On 25 Feb 2015, at 1:23 pm, Renate Terese Ferro wrote: > > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > I would like to introduce Melinda Rackham back to the -empyre list. > Melinda as > many of y