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Welcome to March 2021 on –empyre- soft-skinned space: 
The Dawn of Aquarius:  Art, Intuition and Technology
Moderated by Renate Ferro  and Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala

March 1st :    Week 1:  Arshiya Lokhandwala, Renate Ferro, Tim Murray
March 8th      Week 2: Kat McDermott, Margueretha Haughwort, Margaret Rhee,
                       Judy Walgren, xtine burrough
March 15th    Week 3: Jennifer Gradecki, Derek Curry. Rithika Merchant, Vora 
Darshana,
                        Vandana Jain
March 22nd    Week 4: Jennifer Fisher, Serena Keshavjee, Bev Pike, Jamelie 
Hassan, Alex
                        Borkowski, Sally McKay, Ann Cvetkovich, Celina Jeffery, 
Chrysanne
                        Stathacos

Welcome to the March 2021 discussion on -empyre- soft-skinned space.  This 
month we welcome curator, Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala, who will collaborate with 
-empyre-curatorial moderator, Renate Ferro to introduce the topic, The Dawn of 
Aquarius: Art, Intuition and Technology. The title of this month’s discussion 
is inspired by the anthology and collected writings published by our colleague 
Jennifer Fisher, a Canadian curator from York University.  

We have spent several months discussing the global crises of the Covid pandemic 
presented by the technologies of health and safety.  This pandemic has 
simultaneously been compounded by an environment of rising international tides 
of conservatism, nationalism, and fascism that ride the waves of xenophobia, 
racism, sexism, and homophobia.  Additionally, the complications of the 
precarity and health of our environment and the costs of climate change include 
rising temperatures driving natural disasters, food and water shortages, and 
economic fragility all having political consequences. 

Arshiya proposed that we spend the month of March taking a few deep breaths. A 
recent change in astrological changes shifted the cycle of the stars based on 
the precession or tilt of the earth.  In her exhibition curatorial statement 
Arshiya writes, “This extraordinary moment began on December 21st, 2020 with 
the winter solstice, marking a shift from the Piscean Age dominated by 
hierarchy and power to an Aquarian Age prophesized as an epoch of science, 
truth, expanded consciousness, individual freedoms, connections, 
communications, and networks which include technology. The Age of Aquarius is 
anticipated as a moment of heightened intuition, creativity, intelligence and 
the moment when we collectively as humanity care for our planet, its 
bio-diversity, ecology and all sentient life. Taking cue from this momentous 
planetary shift the exhibition The Dawn of Aquarius is an invitation to artists 
to respond to the new world they envisage.”

Since the Age of Aquarius is about collective community and communication, we 
extend to all of our -empyre- guests and subscribers to take a few deep breaths 
to respond to the world they envision through cross-disciplinary perspectives. 
How can we as artists, academics, technologists, and theoreticians consider the 
zones between intuition, art and technology to consider the future. 
 
Our discussion will be held in tandem with two special events:   
1.       A zoom mini-conference sponsored by -empyre- soft-skinned space and 
The Tinker Factory on March 19th at 9:30 am EST. The registration link is
 https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdemsrzspH9Qs924AZuHFNHHXudUcSdaA 
2.      An online exhibition of art work curated by Arshihya Lokhandwala.  The 
curatorial statement for the exhibition, The Dawn of Aquarius a New Beginning, 
can be accessed at < www.arshiyalokhandwala.com>

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Biographies:  
Week 1
Renate Ferro is a conceptual media artist who toggles between the creative 
skins of old and new technologies. Her work mobilizes opportunities for 
creative interactivity that incorporate issues relating to feminist 
psychological and sociological conditions. Ferro’s work takes on create skins 
whose configurations include installation, interactive net-based projects, 
sculpture, digital time-based media, drawing, text, and performance-based work. 
These creative skins include participatory, collaborative, generative, and 
customizable characteristics impacting the networked quality of her work.  Her 
artistic work has been featured at the University of Virginia, Hunter College 
Gallery (NYC), The Freud Museum (London), The Dorksy Gallery (NYC), The 
Hemispheric Institute and FOMMA (Mexico), The Janus Pannonius Muzeum (Hungary), 
Peking University (Beijing), Johnson Art Museum (Ithaca, NY), and Nanyang 
Technological University (Singapore).  Her image-based work has been published 
in Diacritics and Theatre Journal. Her writing has been published in journals 
such as Media-N and several anthologies.  

She is the managing curator and moderator of the online international listserv, 
-empyre-soft-skinned space that brings together artists, theorists, and 
technologists. Joining the moderating team in 2007. Since 2010 she has been the 
curatorial moderator organizing and vetting monthly topics and guests as well 
as technically monitoring the moderation site and website. 

She has taught in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell 
University since 2004 as a Visiting Associate Professor teaching digital media 
and theory, drawing and advanced Thesis studios.  She is currently the Director 
of Undergraduate Studies.
www.renateferro.net
https://aap.cornell.edu/people/renate-ferro

Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala is an art historian and curator and [Ph. D. Cornell 
University] Master’s of Arts in Curating, Goldsmith College, London], and the 
founding director/curator of Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India. Her recent museum 
curatorial projects include The Future is Here: Art and Technology in 
Millennial Age [2019], Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post –Independent 
from India at Dr. Bahu Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai [April 2017] and Raza 
Foundation, Delhi [January 2017], India Re- Worlded: Seventy Years of 
Investigating a Nation [2017] for which she was awarded the curator of the year 
award by India Today, Given Time: The Gift and Its Offerings [2016] both at 
Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai. After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 
1947/1997 [2015] at the Queens Museum, and Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema 
Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India for the RPG Foundation in Mumbai, and 
Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving 
Collecting, and Museums in India at the Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi [2011]. She 
was been teaching South Asian Feminism in the Art Institute of Chicago, USA in 
the Art History department since 2019. She has curated over 200 shows at 
Lakeeren Gallery, which included an international program of artists from 
India, Pakistan, Iran, and Germany & Mexico City. Dr. Lokhandwala writes on 
globalization, feminism, performance, and new media with a specialization in 
biennale and large-scale exhibitions. Arshiya Lokhandwala lives and works in 
Mumbai and New York. 
www.Lakeerengallery.com 

Tim Murray
A longtime member of the -empyre- moderation team, Tim Murray is Director of 
the Cornell Council for the Arts, Professor of Comparative Literature and 
English, and Founding Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in 
the Cornell Library. He has curated the international exhibition “Contact 
Zones: The Art of CD-Rom” (https://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu), and with 
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, the conceptual internet art journal, “CTHEORY 
Multimedia” (http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu). More recently, he joined 
Sarah Watson and Sherry Miller Hocking on “The Experimental Television Center: 
A History, ETC” at Hunter College Galleries in New York City, and at Cornell, 
he curated “Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Goldsen Archive” 
(http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/signaltocode/) as well as the 2018 and 2020 
Cornell Biennials (http://cca.cornell.edu/?p=2020-biennial.
He is awaiting production of Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global 
Media Art(Minnesota, 2022).  Among his books are Medium Philosophicum: Pensar 
tecnológicamente el arte (Universidad de Murcia, 2021), Digital Baroque: New 
Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008), Zonas de Contacto: el arte en 
CD-Rom (Centro de la Imagen, 1999), Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and 
Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997), Like a Film: 
Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993), ed. Xu 
Bing’s Background Story and his Oeuvre (Mandarin), co-edited with Yang Shin-Yi 
(Life Bookstore Publishing, 2016), ed. with Irving Goh of The Prepositional 
Senses of Jean-Luc Nancy, 2 Vols., diacritics (2014-16), and ed., Mimesis, 
Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought 
(Michigan, 1997).
Week 2
Margaretha Haughwort’s  (she/they) creative work is a kind of multispecies 
worlding — a phrase introduced by Donna Haraway, who understands it to be the 
“patterning of possible worlds,” a co-becoming that occurs through 
entanglements with other species. Haughwout collaborates with humans, and the 
more-than-human, across technologies and ecologies, to enact possible worlds — 
worlds that generate abundance, presence and relationship — and in doing so, 
antagonize proprietary regimes, colonial temporalities, and capitalist forms of 
labor. Speculative fabulation, intervention, participatory event, walking tour, 
experimental pedagogy, installation, and biological processes articulate stages 
of her worlding processes.

Kathleen McDermott is a media artist with a background in installation and 
sculpture. She uses a combination of textiles, sculptural materials and 
open-source electronics to craft absurd wearable technology pieces that explore 
the relationship between human bodies and technology in both real and imagined 
scenarios. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, 
Huffington Post, and Dezeen, and has been exhibited internationally. She has 
held residencies at the Museum of Art and Design in NY, Tides Institute and 
Museum of Art in Maine, and Textile Arts Center in NY, among others. McDermott 
received her PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 
in 2019. She is currently an Industry Assistant Professor at NYU’s Tandon 
School of Engineering, in the area of Integrated Digital Media.

Margaret Rhee is a poet, scholar, and new media artist. She is the author of 
Love, Robot, named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 
2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best 
Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. Her poetry 
chapbooks include Yellow and Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love, and 
forthcoming collection Poetry Machines: A Letter to a Future Reader, a 
collection of lyrical essays on poetry, and the intersections of cinema, art, 
and new media. Currently, her monograph How We Became Human: Race, Robots, and 
the Asian American Body is under review at Duke University Press. She was a 
College Fellow in Digital Practice in the English Department at Harvard 
University and a member of MetaLab @ Harvard. She received her Ph.D. from UC 
Berkeley in ethnic studies with a designated emphasis in new media studies. She 
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo and 
co-leads Palah 파랗 Light Studios, a creative space for poetry, participation, 
and pedagogy through technology.

Judy Walgren is the associate director and a professor of practice/documentary 
photography and immersive media for the Michigan State University School of 
Journalism. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, as well as a 
seasoned photo editor, curator and visual artist. Walgren has worked on visual 
staffs at the Dallas Morning News, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. 
As the director of photography at the San Francisco Chronicle, she led a staff 
of Emmy-award winning filmmakers, photojournalists and photo editors. In 2016, 
she received an MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and 
began her exploration into the relationships between visual archives and power 
structures. Her latest body of work explores representation, identity and 
archive-making through collaborative portraiture with Survivors of sexual 
violence.

xtine burrough uses emerging technologies to engage networked audiences in 
critical participation. burrough values the communicative power of art-making 
to explore the boundaries between humans and the technologies they create, 
embody, and employ. Recent projects, such as A Kitchen of One’s Own, An Archive 
of Unnamed Women, and The Laboring Self yield multiple layers of participation 
and collaborative meaning-making. These were awarded with a commission for 
"Data/Set/Match" at the Photographers’ Gallery, London; a microgrant from the 
Nasher Sculpture Center; and funding from the Puffin Foundation and Humanities 
Texas and a residency at the Center for Creative Connections in the Dallas 
Museum of Art. She archives her work through writing. burrough has edited 
volumes and portfolio sections for other artists to write, reflect on, expose, 
and archive their practices. With Judy Walgren she is currently working on an 
anthology, Social Practice Art: Technologies for Change. She is the Editor of 
Net Works: Case Studies of Web Art and Design (2011), and Co-Editor of The 
Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015), Keywords in Remix Studies (2018), 
and forthcoming The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities 
(2021) with Eduardo Navas and Owen Gallagher.

Week 3
Vandana Jain is an artist and textile designer based in Brooklyn. Her work 
explores the intersections of pattern and symbol, and spirituality and 
consumerism through a variety of media including embroidery, masking tape, 
sugar and shattered auto glass. 
Her work has been exhibited widely and in the last few years, she has had solo 
projects at Hallwalls Contemporary, Buffalo; Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India; 
Station Independent Projects, Lower East Side, NY; and Smack Mellon and BRIC 
House in Brooklyn, NY. Jain's selected residencies and grants include the 
Emerging Artist’s Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park, the Lower Manhattan 
Cultural Council Workspace Residency, the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors 
Grant, and the Foundation of Contemporary Emergency Grant. Her work has been 
profiled in Artforum, The New York Times, Art Slant, Mumbai Boss, Kyoorius and 
Beautiful Decay. 
She is also an active member of the Visual Arts Collective at ABC No Rio, a 
space for community arts and activism on the Lower East Side, and a founding 
member of the arts collective, artcodex.
Darshana Vora is a London-based conceptual artist with a multidisciplinary 
practice in digital artwork, moving image and site-specific installation. She 
has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally since 1997. Her 
aesthetic choices are informed by a background in architecture, an interest in 
spatial dynamics and an exploration of Buddhist philosophies.  Her works are 
inspired by the urban fabric of the city, it's rituals, processes and imagery - 
fusing the public with the private in a dialogue. Some exhibitions include 
Alternative Art Education (Slow) Marathon UK 2020, VAICA Festival Mumbai 2019, 
'Mind|Mirror' at the Video festival at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, 
2015, ‘The Home and The World’ Contemporary Photography - Aicon Gallery, New 
York, USA, 2010.  Website: https://darshanavora.portfoliobox.net/

Rithika Merchant (b. 1986) received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from 
Parsons The New School of Design, New York (2008). Since graduating, she has 
exhibited her work extensively, including a number of solo exhibitions in 
India, Spain, Germany, France and the United States.
Her most recent solo shows include, Birth of a New World at TARQ, Mumbai 
(2021), Mirror of the Mind at Galerie L.J, Paris, France (2019); Where the 
Water Takes us at TARQ, Mumbai (2017) and Ancestral Home at Galeria Bien 
Cuadrado, Barcelona (2017).Her recent group exhibitions include a two-person 
show Osmosis at TARQ, Mumbai, curated by Shaleen Wadhwana (2019); Spring! A 
Group Show of Contemporary Drawing at Galerie LJ, Paris (2019) and Chloe 
Couture at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kieve, Ukraine (2019).Other 
groups shows include Homo Faber at The Michaelangelo Foundation, Venice ( 2018) 
; Portal at October Gallery, London (2018) and Sensorium / The End Is Only The 
Beginning Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts, Goa (2018).She has also 
collaborated with Chloé, a French fashion house on multiple collections for 
which she was awarded the Vogue India Young Achiever of the Year Award at its 
Women of the Year Awards 2018. She was also named one of Vogue Magazine’s Vogue 
World 100 Creative Voices.She currently divides her time between Mumbai and 
Barcelona.

Derek Curry 
Derek Curry is an artist-researcher whose work critiques and addresses spaces 
for intervention in automated decision making systems.  His work has addressed 
automated stock trading systems, Open Source Intelligence gathering (OSINT), 
and algorithmic classification systems.  His artworks have replicated aspects 
of social media surveillance systems and communicated with algorithmic trading 
bots.  Derek earned his MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 
and his PhD in Media Study from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 
2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in 
Boston.
 
Curry has exhibited his work internationally at venues such as Ars Electronica 
(Linz), Science Gallery Dublin, NeMe Cultural Center (Cypress), North East of 
North (Scotland), the Athens Digital Art Festival, the Boulder Museum of 
Contemporary Art, the AC Institute (New York), Hallwalls (Buffalo), and the USF 
Institute for Research in Art (Tampa). His projects have been funded by Science 
Gallery Dublin and the Puffin Foundation, and the NEoN festival. 
http://derekcurry.com/

Jennifer Gradecki 
Jennifer Gradecki BFA Sculpture/Psychology, MFA New Genres, PhD Visual Studies, 
is an artist-theorist who investigates secretive and specialized 
socio-technical systems. Her artistic research has focused on social science 
techniques, financial instruments, mass surveillance, intelligence analysis, 
artificial intelligence, and the spread of misinformation on social media. She 
has presented and exhibited at venues including Ars Electronica (Linz), New 
Media Gallery (Zadar), Media Art History (Göttweig), The New Gallery (Calgary), 
Critical Finance Studies (Amsterdam), ISEA (Vancouver), ADAF (Athens), and the 
Centro Cultural de España (México). She is an Assistant Professor of Art + 
Design at Northeastern University in Boston. Her research has been published in 
Big Data & Society, Visual Resources, and Leuven University Press. Her artwork 
has been funded by Science Gallery Dublin, the Puffin Foundation, and the NEoN 
Digital Arts Festival. www.jennifergradecki.com 

Week 4
Jennifer Fisher’s research focusses on exhibition, display practices, 
contemporary art, performance, feminist epistemology, affect theory and the 
aesthetics of the non-visual senses. Her anthology Technologies of Intuition 
was published by YYZBOOKS in 2006. She is cofounder and joint editor of the 
Journal of Curatorial Studies, and has co-edited special issues of PUBLIC: 
“Civic Spectacle” as well as Senses and Society: “The Senses and Art.” Her 
writings have been featured in such books as The Ashgate Companion to 
Paranormal Culture, The Senses in Performance, Caught in the Act and 
Foodculture; and journals such as Performance Research, Capacious: Journal for 
Emerging Affective Inquiry, Senses & Society, C Magazine and Public. Fisher is 
a founding member of DisplayCult, a collaborative curatorial framework whose 
exhibitions include underpressure (2015), NIGHTSENSE (2009), Odor Limits 
(2008), Do Me! (2006), Linda M. Montano: 14 Years of Living Art (2003), 
Museopathy (2001), Vital Signs (2000) and CounterPoses (1998). Fisher co-edited 
two special issues of the Journal of Curatorial Studies: “Museums and Affect” 
and “Affect and Relationality” (2016) and performed with Linda M. Montano as 
“orange” – the Svadhisthana chakra – at the New Museum: 40 Years New at the New 
Museum New York (2017). She is professor of contemporary art and curatorial 
studies at York University, Toronto. 

Bev Pike is a Winnipeg artist known for gigantic immersive paintings of 
architectural utopias. Amid climate and pandemic catastrophes, she bases her 
research on three-hundred year-old subterranean shell grottos.  Pike shows her 
work in public art galleries across Canada, most recently at the Dunlop Art 
Gallery (Regina), Museum London (London), and St. Mary’s University Art Gallery 
(Halifax).  In addition, she is the recipient of major grants from the Canada 
Council, Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council.  Pike also creates 
humorous, provocative and feminist Agony Aunt columns in artist books which are 
in international special collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate 
Modern and others.  She has been a guest speaker from coast to coast.  Finally, 
as a long-time community activist, Pike writes evidence-based satire for the 
Winnipeg Free Press, CBC as well as other publications.
https://bevpike.com/

Serena Keshavjee
Professor of Art History, University of Winnipeg
Serena Keshavjee coordinates the Curatorial Practices stream of the Masters in 
Cultural Studies while teaching Modern Art and Architectural History at the 
University of Winnipeg. Her academic publishing focuses on the intersection of 
art and science in visual culture at the fin-de-siecle. In 2015 she co-edited 
with Fae Brauer, Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and 
Degeneration in Modern Visual Culture (Cambridge Scholars Press) for which she 
was awarded an SSHRC-funded research grant. In 2009 she edited a special issue 
of Canadian Art Review (RACAR) entitled “Science, Symbolism and Fin-de-Siècle 
Visual Culture”(no. 34, vol. 1, 2009). Her chapter, “Emile Gallé and 
Aestheticization of Science,” was published in Symbolist Origins of Modern Art  
(eds., Michelle Facos and Thor Mednick; Ashgate Press, 2015). Keshavjee’s 
current research project, funded by 2019 SSHRC grant, is an anthology and 
exhibition on photographs of ectoplasm taken by a Canadian medical doctor 
during the 1920s and 1930s in Canada. The exhibition which will include 
contemporary artistic responses to the historical photographs is planned for 
2023.
 
Jamelie Hassan, born in London, Ontario, is a visual artist who is also active 
as a lecturer, writer, and independent curator. She has organized both national 
and international programs including Orientalism and Ephemera, a national 
touring exhibition, originally presented at Art Metropole, Toronto. and most 
recently Dar'a/Full Circle for Artcite Inc. Windsor, ON. Her work is 
represented in numerous public collections in Canada and internationally. 
Recent exhibitions include, Here: Contemporary Canadian Art, curated by Swapnaa 
Tamhane, Aga Khan Museum (2017); Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971 -1989, 
curated by Wanda Nanibush, Art Gallery of Ontario (2016 – 2017); In Order to 
Join: the Political in a Historical Moment, organized by Museum Abteilberg in 
Monchengladbach, Germany (2013-14) and Mumbai, India (2015). Receipient of 
numerous awards, in 2001 she received the Govenor General's Award in Visual and 
Media Arts and in 2018 an honorary doctorate from OCAD University, Toronto.
She is one of the co-founders with artist Ron Benner  of the community-driven, 
not for profit collective, the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) in London, 
Ontario, Canada, which they relaunched with a team of supporters, as an online 
program in July 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
embassyculturalhouse.ca

Alex Borkowski is a writer and PhD student in Communication & Culture at York 
University. She holds a BA in Art History from McGill University and an MA in 
Aural and Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, London. Her critical and 
creative writing has appeared in The Queitus, this is tomorrow, The Happy 
Hypocrite, KAPSULA, Canadian Art, and Prefix Photo. Her research interests 
include sound studies, performance studies, feminist theory and STS; and her 
current project seeks to excavate points of resonance between the 
disembodiment/reembodiment of voices in 19th c. spiritualism and contemporary 
female-coded vocal interfaces. 

Dr. Sally McKay is an artist, curator, art writer and educator based in 
Hamilton, Ontario. Her art and research deal with cognition, consciousness and 
social justice at the intersections of art and science. She works in 
performance, installation and digital media. 

Ann Cvetkovich is Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and 
Gender Studies at Carleton University.  She was previously Ellen Clayton 
Garwood Centennial Professor of English, Professor of Women’s and Gender 
Studies, and founding Director of LGBTQ Studies at the University of Texas at 
Austin.  She is the author of Mixed Feelings:  Feminism, Mass Culture, and 
Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992); An Archive of Feelings:  Trauma, 
Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003); and Depression:  A Public 
Feeling (Duke, 2012).  For additional info, see www.anncvetkovich.com.
 
Celina Jeffery is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of 
Ottawa. Her curatorial work primarily explores the artistic cultures of climate 
change and oceanic degradation. Relevant publications include Preternatural 
(Punctum Books, 2011),Ephemeral Coast, S. Wales (Punctum Books, 2015), The 
Artist as Curator, (Intellect, 2015); ‘Junk Ocean’ (Drain, A Journal of 
Contemporary Art and Culture (Jan. 2016); and ‘Blue Humanities’ co-edited with 
Ian Buchanan in Symploke (2019). She is the founder of Ephemeral Coast 
www.ephemeralcoast.com, a SSHRC funded curatorial research project (2015-2019) 
which involved curating several international art exhibitions on the subject of 
coastal climate change.

Chrysanne Stathacos is a multidisciplinary artist of Greek, American, and 
Canadian heritage. Her work is heavily influenced by feminism, Greek mythology, 
the natural environment, eastern spirituality, and Tibetan Buddhism. Stathacos 
has exhibited for over 40 years in museums, galleries and public spaces 
internationally. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions 
including Gold Rush at Cooper Cole, Toronto (2018) and Pythia, The Breeder, 
Athens, Greece (2017), as well as the group exhibition AA Bronson’s Garten der 
Lüste, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018). Stathacos will 
participate in the 13th Gwangju Biennale / Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning in 
2021. Her website is www.chrysannestathacos.com






Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rfe...@cornell.edu
 
 

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