----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Welcome to our last week of guests: Negin Ehtesabian, Rohit Goel,Shama Nair, and Isaac Sullivan. I am grateful to Patrick for suggesting these guests and we look forward to their posts this week. Their biographies are below.
Just a quick note that we will take a summer break on -empyre- after May 31st and return in September. Biographies. Negin Ehtesabian is a contemporary artist, illustrator, and designer born and raised in Tehran/ Iran. He has lived in Iran, Great Britain and United Arabs Emirates. He is a member of the American art community Techspressionism since 2020 and a member of the Iranian Illustrators society since 2005. He has Illustrated more than 35 picture books for children and adults, including authoring four, published in Iran, Italy, Germany, India, China, Taiwan, Canada, and Turkey. His mural and urban designs can be found inTehran. He has been an Independent sticker‐based street artist since 2015 Education: BA in Visual Communication from the University of Tehran (Fine art faculty) Animation at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK Rohit Goel is Director/Professor of the Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). He is the co-editor of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, Politics (Bloomsbury) and has taught courses in critical theory, historiography, and politics at the University of Chicago, Sciences Po Paris, the American University of Beirut, and Jnanapravaha Mumbai. Rohit received the Fulbright IIE and Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) fellowships to pursue years of Arabic language study in Syria and was awarded the Fulbright DDRA and Andrew C. Mellon Fellowship for PhD dissertation research in primary sources in Lebanon. He completed his BA from Harvard College and, as Harvard University’s Paul Williams Fellow to Emmanuel College, was granted an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Shama Nair is a photographer, writer, and pedagogue working with the Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). Drawn to the intersection between urbanity and visual culture, her research foregrounds our relationship with an ever-expanding neoliberal metropolis, particularly in the MENASA, compelling audiences to think aesthetic, political, and social transformation afresh. Isaac Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Zayed University in Dubai, where his research interests include sound art, artificial intelligence, and the problematics of space and place. His videos, installations, and sonic interventions – which explore technically altered perceptions of time – have been exhibited at Personal Structures, a 2019 Venice Biennale collateral hosted by the European Cultural Centre; Tashkent Biennale; and Beirut Design Week. His performances, which often focus upon the phenomena of sound recording and playback, include 58th Venice Biennale; KED, Beirut; Alserkal Avenue, Dubai; and DIVE x Fabrika, Tbilisi. Renate Ferro Visiting Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Art Tjaden Hall 306 rfe...@cornell.edu _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
