----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Thanks to Antoinette and Brooke for being our guest this week on empyre.
Antoinette your last post on some of the historical precedents involving women and cellos was interesting. I am also reminded of the various collaborations that cellist Charlotte Moorman accomplished with Nam June Paik. A quick image search of the two artists brought up a number of images. Thanks so much for the post. This week on empyre we welcome Paul Vanouse, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Claire Penacost, and Heidi Kumao. Their biographies are posted below and welcome them warmly to -empyre soft-skinned space. I am hoping that all of our guests from other weeks will feel free to post as their schedules permit and that any -empyre subscriber that is lurking in on our conversation who knew Beatriz or was inspired by her work to please post. For anyone missing the discussion thus far, the entire conversation can be accessed in our archive at: http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2013-February/date.html Best to all of you. Renate Ferro Biographies Week 3 Paul Vanouse is a Professor of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo. and has worked in emerging technological media forms since 1990. His biological experiments, electronic cinema, and interactive installations have exhibited in over 20 countries and across the US. His recent projects, “Latent Figure Protocol”, “Ocular Revision” and “Suspect Inversion Center” use molecular biology techniques to challenge “genome-hype” and to confront issues surrounding DNA fingerprinting. Paul and Beatriz began their friendship at Carnegie Mellon in the late Nineties, while Paul was a Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry and Beatriz was finishing her degree. They taught together at the University at Buffalo, exhibited alongside one another in group exhibitions, and organized panels and workshops together, including Wetware Hackers workshop for ISEA 2006 in San Jose. Paul and Beatriz have dialoged and collaborated for over fifteen years and she will be dearly missed. Amanda McDonald Crowley is a cultural worker, curator, and facilitator who creates media and contemporary art programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Recent curatorial efforts include Our Haus, the 10th Anniversary exhibition for the Austrian Cultural Forum, NY. In late 2012 she did a residency as a Bogliasco Fellow, working on curatorial research at the intersection between art, food, and technology. Amanda is also currently a Board member of the National Alliance for Media Art + Culture (NAMAC) in the USA. She has been Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) where she made significant links with science and industry by developing a range of residencies for artists in settings such as science organizations, contemporary art spaces and virtual residencies online. She was Associate Director of the Adelaide Festival 2002 in Australia, and also co-chair of the working group that organized the exhibition and symposium ‘conVerge: where art and science meet’. Critical Art Ensemble were to present their collaboration with Beatriz at that Festival. Alas, the Festival wasn't able to support the performance. While Executive Producer at ISEA2004 (the International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2004) held in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in the Baltic sea, she finally met Beatriz who suggested that she consider professional options in the USA post ISEA. Amanda told Beatriz she would never move to the USA. 18 months later, when she became Executive Director of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City, Beatriz commented "never is not a very long time in your language it seems". When Amanda first arrived at Eyebeam in late 2005, Beatriz, with Preemptive Media, were commissioned to develop Area's Immediate Reading. Beatriz was also a member of the last residency program cohort Amanda oversaw at Eyebeam in 2011, where Beatriz was researching and developing her final projects Dying for the Other and Anti-Cancer Survival Kit. Claire Penacost: Claire Pentecost’s work engages diverse strategies—collaboration, research, teaching, field work, writing, lecturing, drawing, installation and photography—in an ongoing interrogation of the institutional structures that order knowledge. Her work has long addressed the contested boundary between natural and artificial, focusing the last fourteen years on food, agriculture and bio-engineering. Pentecost was a presenting artist at dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Germany, and is represented by Higher Pictures in New York. She is a Professor in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and often collaborates with Compass in the Midwest Radical Cultural Corridor. Heidi Kumao: Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, Heidi Kumao’s installations, experimental films, and machine art works generate artistic spectacle in order to explore the psychological underpinnings of everyday situations. Each work restages simple behaviors (e.g. gardening, writing, standing upright, reading) within a larger cultural construct (such as a prison, family/home or traditional gender roles) through projection, kinetic elements or electronics. Through these performative tableaus and hybrid art forms, Kumao demonstrates how small gestures, even the most private and poetic, can become acts of defiance. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Canada including solo shows at the Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo), Museu de Arte Moderne (Buenos Aires) and Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Group exhibitions include SIGGRAPH 2011 (Vancouver), Wing Luke Asian Art Museum (Seattle), and Usina do Gasômetro Cultural Center (Porto Alegre, Brazil). She has been awarded numerous national fellowships, grants, residencies and awards including: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an AAUW Post-doctoral Fellowship, a Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields/Robotics, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Art Matters (NYC). Heidi Kumao is an Associate Professor in the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches a range of classes in media, time-based art forms, and conceptual art practice. -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <[email protected]> URL: http://www.renateferro.net http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre _______________________________________________ empyre forum [email protected] http://www.subtle.net/empyre
