Re: [-empyre-] scalable relations-- how does this matter? (orde-materialize?)

2009-02-06 Thread naxsmash
forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] scalability and 'knowledge production

2009-02-12 Thread naxsmash
around the world at any particular moment. The spray gun spray is lost, now its more like a steam bath of image delivery. What a fascinating issue-- is this 'knowledge production' in some sense ? Christina On Feb 12, 2009, at 11:27 AM, naxsmash wrote: thank you, Simon-as editor/moderator

[-empyre-] citation correction

2009-02-23 Thread naxsmash
Economy. Translated by Gregory Conti, introduction by Michael Hardt. New York: Semiotext(e), 2008 Apologies for the author name error. c naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 51, Issue 21: Gamma Rays

2009-02-24 Thread naxsmash
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[-empyre-] house of cards

2009-02-25 Thread naxsmash
nothing. Either is a way of reifying metaphors as facts. The trick is to see what is represented, how it's represented, and what is transformed by the fiction. I think I might be my own school of criticism g. John naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net

Re: [-empyre-] TAZ-mania

2009-04-21 Thread naxsmash
A good thought about how art practice matters, gives me a moment to smile while on a very grey bus lumbering into Chicago. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:15 AM, davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for spending a little time on deCerteau... And as for your call

Re: [-empyre-] R: Truths and temporality

2009-05-11 Thread naxsmash
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Re: [-empyre-] R: Truths and temporality

2009-05-11 Thread naxsmash
in the near- ‘arrival’ of Venus-like conditions, the project imagines speculative Terran landscapes of proliferation in a topology of break points. On May 11, 2009, at 9:56 PM, naxsmash wrote: love, c thanks to Ashley and Stamatia-- this is totally related to the work i am doing now and I do thank you

Re: [-empyre-] R: Truths and temporality

2009-05-12 Thread naxsmash
Hi Stamatia and all, I got interested in researching peaking rhythms as part of research on carbon PPM concentrations in the atmosphere and how to visualize it. In connection with this notion of intrinsic singularity , following Bernard Cache, I started to wonder about delta values,

Re: [-empyre-] signing off: Participatory Art: New Media and the Archival Trace

2009-07-01 Thread naxsmash
naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net On Jul 1, 2009, at 7:16 AM, r...@cornell.edu wrote: As we draw our June discussion to a close we would like to thank our guest discussants to whom we are most appreciative: Hana Iverson (US), Sarah

Re: [-empyre-] Queer Relationally -- Queer Aesthetics of Exsistence

2009-07-02 Thread naxsmash
Robert I would be interested in any stories you might have about particular perfomance artists and events that you 've witnessed , wriiten about.. Specific moments when you noticed this kind of heightened or intense techne. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 2, 2009, at 6:49 PM, Robert Summers

[-empyre-] Becoming Dragon?

2009-07-04 Thread naxsmash
Micha, do you have any online clips or links to Becoming Dragon performances? You write, : n In Becoming Dragon, I sought to explore the subject in transition, in a way creating a space of relation between the audience and a subject who's state of being-in- transition or becoming is

Re: [-empyre-] queer art practices: editorial note

2009-07-04 Thread naxsmash
dear -empyre= I've just asked Marc to break up his posts and responses into smaller chunks. Ironically, I mistakenly posted this long one again because i was on my i phone and could nt see what I was doing !!! crazy... anyway, back home now, and I would like to just say I am sorry for the

Re: [-empyre-] queer art practices: editorial note

2009-07-04 Thread naxsmash
I do appreciate everyone's patience with this. -empyre- is for thoughtful posts with some time delay, some reflection. That's why it's the -empyrean- , a bit set off beyond the horizon. -empyre- is a formal space for writing and reading, a hypertext like interleaved pages of a book.

[-empyre-] Aesthetic of Skeletons (forward from Lessa Bouchard)

2009-07-04 Thread naxsmash
at the soft places that we are unsure of, that are in between and tender. Sometimes it’s enough to know they’re there and figure out what it means honor them. naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net

Re: [-empyre-] slippery synaptic summaries and rolling ronellian resonances

2009-07-06 Thread naxsmash
slipp!! so how petroleum /silicon are these drugged environments plasticizing/ forming new projections through postnatural biospheres-- so are you saying or wishfully dreaming of priori deep type or life- type forms linguistically tucked inside the assemblages of ecosystems (laced with the

Re: [-empyre-] Response to Virgina Re: Robert's Respons e on Queer Mésentente

2009-07-11 Thread naxsmash
Political aesthetics eapecially as you refer to Butler--- crucial and important Also your analysis and perceptive remarks about General Idea are of keen interest...please jump back in with this. More, please! christina Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2009, at 6:18 AM, virginia

[-empyre-] queer love-machine and Haraway's 'other-worlding'

2009-07-14 Thread naxsmash
I too find that Haraway has something wonderful going ('mess making' in the mess hall). Virginia has touched on this too, the way of thinking about 'queer' as a functional shift, or even 'clinamen' (swerve)-- just trying to develop an nominative (naming ) of queer as noun makes it

Re: [-empyre-] -twerkw or placebo

2009-07-15 Thread naxsmash
. The stream of cell phone videos from Iran seem pretty queer, and deeply relational, to me. Judith On 7/14/09 7:46 PM, naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com wrote: ... thinking about 'queer' as a functional shift, or even 'clinamen' (swerve)-- just trying to develop an nominative (naming ) of queer

Re: [-empyre-] Queer *Is* Violent: Response to Part of Judith's Position/Statement

2009-07-16 Thread naxsmash
On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:47 PM, virginia solomon wrote: so in all of this talk of violence and the violence attendant to any sort of queer operation or tactic, I very much understand Robert, Davin, and Christina's arguments but I am nevertheless troubled, with Judith, about the stakes of

Re: [-empyre-] Queer *Is* Violent: Response to Part of Judith's Position/Statement

2009-07-16 Thread naxsmash
Judith Rodenbeck writes: How could one make that image, when her eyes literally go blank and the blood rivers out of her nose, swerve? I'd think a 3-Songs-of-Lenin treatment rather than Nam June wallpaper. Or Kali Ma. the swerve as the swerve is happening physically and at the level of the

Re: [-empyre-] Queer *Is* Violent: Response to Part of Judith's Position/Statement

2009-07-16 Thread naxsmash
speaking of peace, I 've got to head out to yoga but back in a few hours. thanks for the great exchange so far and we can keep it going shortly. -moderator naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net On Jul 16, 2009, at 5:02 PM, davin

[-empyre-] Fwd: Queer *Is* Violent: Response to Part of Judith's Position/Statement

2009-07-16 Thread naxsmash
Here is a side exchange that has gone on between my partner Terry, who teaches a design studio in architecture, and George, a former student of Terry's who's been working on the problematics of violence in architecture. Thought it would be worth sharing with the list. George observes,

Re: [-empyre-] Queer *Is* Violent: Response to Part of Judith's Position/Statement

2009-07-21 Thread naxsmash
Cutting/blows/kisses are sublated via montage in yellow tahiti substation piece and elsewhere ( http://www.vimeo.com/4189136) and also the differential is the sense of place, it s not just anywhere, its a cutting/kissing of places together short version on version

Re: [-empyre-] David Chirot: Queer *Is* Violent: Response to Part of Judith'sPosition/Statement

2009-07-21 Thread naxsmash
I was searching last night around the house for a book called A Bridge We Call Home. I could not find my copy, sadly. Does anyone have quotes from this book that might touch on this..http://www.amazon.com/this-bridge-call-home-transformation/product-reviews/0415936829 On Jul 21, 2009, at

Re: [-empyre-] more on cooptation of the oppressed

2009-07-23 Thread naxsmash
Micha, I really appreciate your picking up on the threads in Virginia's comments on transfeminism and my request for quotes from This Bridge We Call Home. Could you contextualize your reference here to Sandoval a bit more? I am intrigued-- as you quote her, ...enters the kind of psychic

Re: [-empyre-] Identity ... Disruptions ... and MIcha new on video

2009-07-24 Thread naxsmash
Thanks for the the citation for this book-- I recently had the pleasure of meeting Dr Johnny (Sue) Golding in the UK.-- she has also just now been involved in a conference in June for CTheory with our guest Micha Cardenas (djlotu) I just want to correct the citation slightly to this:

Re: [-empyre-] Identity ... Disruptions ; 'it's a delicate game we are playing, after all'.

2009-07-24 Thread naxsmash
I would, also like to send you to Johnny Golding's amazing performance=essay , Conversion on the Road to Damascus (2): Minority Report on The Political (or how to have an adventure after Metaphysics) http://gre.academia.edu/ProfessorJohnnyGolding/Papers#d98974 this incarnation 'installed'

[-empyre-] please welcome Alex Donis

2009-07-27 Thread naxsmash
lecturer at numerous universities institutions and is currently represented by Sherry Frumkin Gallery in Santa Monica. please welcome Alex.. c naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net ___ empyre

Re: [-empyre-] a last minute plea for discussion about transfeminism

2009-07-29 Thread naxsmash
For the longest time, a book called This Bridge We Call Home was in the bookcase by my bed. Every night I 'd see that title and it would comfort me. The image of a home on a bridge, and calling (naming ) , this imaginary sound , resonated with a sense of power and hope. Now for some reason

Re: [-empyre-] a last minute plea for discussion about transfeminism

2009-07-29 Thread naxsmash
The liminal zone-- Gloria was talking about this bridge-- its always on the edge of something we cansee, like those luminous jets, not touch, just yet-- what does Eve Sedgwick say about touch? LIke the biblical Thomas some need to touch the wound in order to believe. naxsmash naxsm

Re: [-empyre-] _I Am Transreal_ : [part 1] [_Augmentology.com_]

2009-07-29 Thread naxsmash
taking it.[3] naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:38 AM, { brad brace } wrote: all careerist complicit-fantasy positions and especially those of the arts-dot-edu variety are reprehensible; the pseudo dialogue

Re: [-empyre-] bridging flying machines

2009-07-30 Thread naxsmash
johannes--- link: http://vimeo.com/channels/naxsmash or : http://vimeo.com/channels/naxsmash#5766529 thanks also for sending me a link to your video, soda lake (unbound'), which i first couldn't watch as our network here in the Mine was too slow, and so it stopped, after a few

[-empyre-] last call...

2009-07-31 Thread naxsmash
naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] out the blue

2009-07-31 Thread naxsmash
, Julian, Christiane, Judith, Robert, Reggie, Renate, Davin, Micha, Virginia, Brad, and Esquizo-trans See you in Sept. Out the blue you came to me And blew away life's misery Out the blue life's energy Out the blue you came to me =John Lennon peace, c naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina

Re: [-empyre-] final questions for Patrick and Jason: the visual and indexing networked information

2009-10-28 Thread naxsmash
no, i think that the sound space/ sonification field is far from narrow-- it's not obscured by the visual-- sound cuts 'below' vision... thanks for sharing the links here for turbulence's sound projects. I had a strange and powerful 'turning away 'from the visual experience in working with

Re: [-empyre-] Hactivating Design

2009-11-21 Thread naxsmash
Wow, great to mention Victor Papanek. I knew him back when I was a student at the Kansas city art institute. I remember his bouyant personality and very dry wit. We have his little book -- containing really the seeds of everything important about design as a generative radical

Re: [-empyre-] self and others

2010-01-13 Thread naxsmash
. naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Johanna Drucker wrote: Nice turn to these exchanges. I also really appreciated Gabriela's point and the follow-up by others. If we think of art as the act of form giving, we

Re: [-empyre-] Delightenment as Mass Perception

2010-01-14 Thread naxsmash
generative thing... I mean that you can actually make images and sounds do this as a kind of meta-systems implosion- i am rambling (appropriately enough, as in a rumble, or a walk through the woods). christina naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http

Re: [-empyre-] Book Piracy and Alienated Labour

2010-06-04 Thread naxsmash
to those who come after us... . (for more on Filliou, there's a terrific essay on him in a recent Art Journal (CAA)-- I think , maybe in print only. Christina naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://pharmakonlibrary.blogspot.com http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net

Re: [-empyre-] Sense as space

2010-10-25 Thread naxsmash
from your post below to facebook and twitter. very succinct. thanks, and hi Sergio, as always-often we are in sync. c naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net On Oct 24, 2010, at 5:49 PM, sergio basbaum wrote: Alexander, Thank you for you

Re: [-empyre-] Stephen Wilson

2011-01-11 Thread naxsmash
Wow, that's really sad. He made this amazing compendium: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html xc naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Simon Biggs wrote: I'm sorry to say I

[-empyre-] Fwd: interval. Enter the figural.

2011-03-05 Thread naxsmash
This post from Simon Taylor was lost. Mailman software denied it. As a field becomes visible so does this. Begin forwarded message: From: simon s...@clear.net.nz Date: March 4, 2011 1:55:03 PM PST (CA) To: empyre-ow...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: post deemed inappropriate: reasons

[-empyre-] the city of the naked / A cidade do homem nu

2011-03-22 Thread naxsmash
a revolta para ver alguma coisa do inconsciente'. Flávio de Carvalho, Experiência no.2, Rio de Janeiro: Nau, 2001. cm naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.netó ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http

[-empyre-] the field disappears....

2011-03-31 Thread naxsmash
. installation curated by Cara Megan Lewis in a new project space in Kansas City, my old home town. http://www.christinamcphee.net/teorema-drawings-at-cara-and-cabezas-contemporary/ Thanks for your patience and have fun next month. Love, Christina naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina

Re: [-empyre-] the field disappears....: MUTEmuted: forward from Pauline von Mourik Broekman

2011-04-02 Thread naxsmash
. It's a case of crisis management for many. Best Simon On 31/03/2011 20:47, naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com wrote: dear evanescent -empyreans, A relatively failed attempt on my part to 'field' a very broad topic, 'how does a field become visible, when comes to a close as March goes out like

Re: [-empyre-] a borgesian digital map... and live AR.... on Hana Iverson, Sensible City, etc LIVE now

2011-05-01 Thread naxsmash
very enjoyable comment-- and actually ironically enough, i was just posting so quickly to -empyre- because usually my 'naxsmash' posts go through right away because i am a (sometime and former) moderator of the list. But not this time-- so my remarks came on too late. Also, I was writing

Re: [-empyre-] real vs. unreal

2011-05-03 Thread naxsmash
hallucinating about Tamiko Thiel objects, I can cope with it, but when I start to hallucinate ATT commercial or ARvertising, well...maybe at the beginning it would funny somehow. naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net

Re: [-empyre-] laws, outlaws golden pirates

2011-07-10 Thread naxsmash
that's interesting, Paulo, what do you mean by 'what really scares me is the infertility of art.' can you expand on this ? c= naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net On Jul 10, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Paolo Cirio wrote: Hi to all, sorry

Re: [-empyre-] from the personal to the political, a p2p confession

2011-07-27 Thread naxsmash
___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre naxsmash naxsm...@mac.com christina mcphee http://christinamcphee.net http://naxsmash.net ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http

[-empyre-] off topic: where is the -empyre- archive?

2012-10-24 Thread naxsmash
I must be missing something, empyreans I am trying to refer to the archives for some projects and I cannot find the link to our archives.. Can anyone help with the updated link? Christina http:///christinamcphee.net On Oct 23, 2012, at 6:00 PM, empyre-requ...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au

Re: [-empyre-] bio / Christina McPhee

2013-06-21 Thread naxsmash
and exhibtion support, Bauhaus-Universitat, Weimar (2003), and Banff Center for the Arts (residency, Media and Visual Arts, 2000). Christina McPhee’s time based work on Vimeo including clips from Shed Cubed, Carbon Song Cycle, Tesserae of Venus and Naxsmash projects is accessed at https

Re: [-empyre-] Week 4: “Convergence: expanding time-base media”

2013-10-25 Thread naxsmash
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Ken, Could you offer some online links to some of the images from these works, Box of Men and Hell ? -Christina On Oct 25, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ken Feingold wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear