----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Dear Simon and Sue,
Thanks for organising this discussion. I’m sorry I’ve not been able to participate in real-time, but I have found inspiration in many of the comments several days after they were written. -k On 29 Jul 2014, at 01:04, Simon Biggs <si...@littlepig.org.uk> wrote: > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- > > Virtual Embodiment > > Thanks to our invited discussants during week 4, Sally Jane Norman and Daniel > Tercio, as well as those who contributed to the week's discussion. During the > fourth week of discussion the topics engaged have included entrainment, > extended mind, the scaffolded self, hauntology, 'grappling', how different > languages contextualise discussion on embodiment and even how processes of > translation lead to interesting conceptual collisions, such as the mashing up > of chairs and bodies (echoing Alan Sondheim's mashed up Second Life cyborg > selves). Kirk Woolford also contributed with a discussion around his work > with augmented reality projects engaging Tim Ingold's concept of > 'place-binding', a concept as relevant in virtual space as in any other > place. Other artists' discussed, directly and indirectly, included Wesley > Goatley, Michael Takeo Magruder and el Greco. Even the classic Hollywood film > Casablanca was referenced. > > Over the course of this month's discussion the concepts of the 'virtual' and > 'embodiment' have shown themselves to be, as Susan Kozel noted, polysemic, > demanding definition and redefinition. It seemed that, unlike Bill Gaver, > discussants were not 'so over embodiment'. The discussion (in English, but at > times Assyrian, Icelandic, Portuguese and Greek - perhaps a future empyre > discussion might engage pluriliteracy?), touched on somatic materialism, > affect, potential, flow, resonances; it climbed through a framework of > porosity, perception and presence; looked at window-weather, bodyweather, > gabbu, the possibility of swallowing systems and carne asada. There was a > good degree of suspicion and critique of the corporate, of consuming/being > consumed by socio-technical systems and protocols, counterbalanced by some > yoga, a reminder to breathe and Sally Jane swimming in the sea. > > We would like to close our July 2014 discussion on –empyre– soft-skinned > space about Virtual Embodiment by thanking our guest discussants Susan Kozel > (SE), Johannes Birringer (UK), Samantha Gorman (USA), Sophia Lycouris (UK), > Tamara Ashley (UK), Garth Paine (USA), Hellen Sky (AUS), Daniel Tercio (PT), > Sally Jane Norman (NZ/FR) and Sarah Whatley (UK). We would also like to > thanks all those who contributed to or followed the discussion. Lurking is a > very important part of list participation, just as reading is an integral > aspect of writing and publishing. > > We wish those of you in the Northern Hemisphere a relaxing and pleasant > August whilst here in the Southern hemisphere we wish empyre members a cooler > and rapid transition to Spring. The first signs of Spring are evident here in > the Adelaide Hills, with nesting birds, early flowerings and new lambs. > > empyre will take a break during August and will return in September. > > Sue and Simon > > > SUE HAWKSLEY > independent dance artist > s...@articulateanimal.org.uk > http://www.articulateanimal.org.uk > > > Simon Biggs > si...@littlepig.org.uk | @_simonbiggs_ > http://www.littlepig.org.uk | http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs > > simon.bi...@unisa.edu.au | Professor of Art, University of South Australia > http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs > > s.bi...@ed.ac.uk | Honorary Professor, Edinburgh College of Art, University > of Edinburgh > http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/school-of-art/staff/staff?person_id=182&cw_xml=profile.php > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://www.subtle.net/empyre _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
