----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Welcome to our three October moderators: Quinn Dupont, Anaïs Nony, and Ashley Scarlett They will be introducing this month¹s topic: Digital Objects. We met Ashley this past summer at the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory. We are thrilled that Ashley has enlisted the help of Quinn and Anaïs to help organize and host this month¹s discussion. Many thanks to the three of them and we look forward to the discussion. Renate
Biographies: Quinn DuPont studies the intersections of code, new media, philosophy, and history, with particular attention to the role of cryptography in contemporary life. Using the approaches and methodologies of critical code studies, software studies, digital humanities, and new media studies, Quinn has published on a wide range of issues, including e-poetry, cryptocurrencies, retrocomputing, theories of reading and writing, and Edward Snowden. Further information about Quinn is available at iqdupont.com A native of France, Anaïs Nony is a scholar working in the field of philosophy of technics, critical media, and performance. She holds a B.A. and a M.A. in Arts, Theater, and Modern Society from the New Sorbonne University in Paris. Her research residencies include NYU, Cornell University, and she is currently finishing her Ph.D. in French and moving image studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. Anaïs Nony has collaborated as an author with several journals in France, Italy, Romania, Belgium, and the U.S. She is the co-founder of the international collective Noötechnics and has been studying with philosopher Bernard Stiegler for several years. Ashley Scarlett is currently a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Working in collaboration with Semaphore, a UofT based new media maker and research cluster, her doctoral research sits at the intersection between media theory, contemporary media art and arts-based research. Ashley¹s dissertation, On the Matter of Digital Objects, advances a series of claims about the phenomenological parameters of digital objects and materials through a critical analysis of media artworks and making practices. Ashley has presented widely on this work, is in the process of authoring two articles on the topic, and has acted as a visiting scholar in this regard at both Humboldt University Berlin and Cornell. In addition to her doctoral work, Ashley is also a regular lecturer at OCAD University, where she teaches courses on the history of new media art and critical theory. Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art,Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <rfe...@cornell.edu <mailto:r...@cornell.edu>> URL: http://www.renateferro.net <http://www.renateferro.net/> http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net <http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net/> Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net <http://www.tinkerfactory.net/> Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
