----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Over the next couple of days we will be joined by Patty Zimmerman. We welcome Patty to empyre once again. We are always so appreciative of her participation on empyre and respect not only her political and moral compass but the amazing work she does at our neighborhood institution Ithaca College and the curatorial work she does with FLEFF, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Welcome Patty.
Patricia Zimmermann (US)is professor of screen studies at Ithaca College. She also serves codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff), a multidisciplinary festival that embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms-- economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, aesthetic and sustainable development--through film, video, new media, installation, performance, literature, music, panels, and dialogues. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana)and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (Minnesota) as well as coeditor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (California). With coauthor Dale Hudson, her forthcoming book is Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (Palgrave), to be published in Spring 2015, which examines over 130 new media and performance projects from across the globe. She was the Ida Beam Professor in Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa and the Shaw Foundation Professor of New Media in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She also serves as an envoy for documentary film and new media for the American Film Showcase of the US State Department. She has published over 200 scholarly essays and journalistic articles on documentary, media history, screen theory, and new media in Screen, Genders, Journal of Film and Video, Afterimage, Framework, Asian Communications Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Wide Angle, Cultural Studies, DOX, Film History, Socialist Review, Journal of Communications Inquiry, Afterimage, The Moving Image. The Independent, Gannett Newspapers, Afterimage. Website: http://faculty.ithaca.edu/patty/ _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
