----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Thank you Melinda for starting out the month of June on -empyre-. Here is a bit more information on an all call to all subscribers to -empyre- We are looking forward to hearing from all of you.
An Archival Event: Who is –empyre? >From our website: -empyre- is a global community of new media artists, curators, theorists, producers, and others who participate in monthly thematic discussions via an e-mail listserv. -empyre- facilitates online discussion encouraging critical perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary issues, practices and events in networked media Noting -empyre- soft-skinned space’s passage through its tenth-year anniversary, (January 2012) we have been spending time cruising through the layered archive of posts during that time. http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/ -empyre- has grown from a small organic collective begun by Melinda Rackam to a large international listserv, now with over 1600 members. One of Melinda's brilliant moves was to link the list serve to software that automatically archives each post for future access -- this was quite a prescient feat a decade ago. As we have been thinking of interesting ways to mark the passage into the next decade, as -empyre- continues to morph and grow in the environment of Web 2.0 (now clearly with many, many more lurkers and passive participants than active interlocutors), we thought it might be nice to take a moment to archive the projects of our members. This is an open invitation to all of our subscribers. We invite you to submit a post with: 1) a brief bio, with contact information 2) a two-paragraph description of your practice, current/recent projects, or writing or curatorial activities Thanks to all of you. Renate Ferro, Tim Murray, Simon Biggs, and Patrick Lichty Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <r...@cornell.edu> 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 empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
