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We have enjoyed our month off and have used the time to rest, recuperate and
soak in the environmental luxuries of upstate New York. We have been traveling
extensively including a pretty amazing trip to ECNU in Shanghai, China.
However, it has been nice to relish in the fact that home is indeed a restful
retreat and we are charged up for the new season of -empyre. We hope you are
as well.
At this time we would like to introduce Adam Nocek. We met Adam this past
April in Syracuse, NY where Greg Lambert hosted the inaugural meeting of the
Society for the Study of Bio-political Futures entitled: Life
In-Between-Outside Discipline and Control. It was at that meeting that we
approached Adam about hosting this special discussion: BioArt: Materials,
Practices, Politics.
A bit of bio for Adam: Adam J Nocek is a PhD candidate in the Comparative
Literature Department and instructor in the Comparative History of Ideas
Program at the University of Washington. His work focuses on the relation of
living systems to various forms of visual (cinema, animation, architecture) and
biotechnological mediation. In 2012 he was a fellow at the Biological Futures
in a Globalized World Consortium, a project jointly sponsored by the Fred
Hutcheson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington. Nocek has
published essays on architecture, aesthetics, biotechnology, and speculative
philosophy. Along with Phillip Thurtle, Nocek is co-editing a special issue of
the journal Inflexions, entitled Animating Biophilosophy (Fall 2013), as well
as co-editing, along with Nicholas Gaskill, a collection of essays on the
philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, entitled The Lure of Whitehead (Minnesota
2014).
Thank you Adam for shepherding this month. We welcome Adam and his guests.
Renate (and Tim)
Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Email: <r...@cornell.edu<mailto:r...@cornell.edu>>
URL: http://www.renateferro.net
http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net
Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net
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