[-empyre-] Welcome to OCTOBER on -empyre- and Margaret Rhee

[Renate Ferro]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--
Dear -empyre- 
Welcome to October already.  The leaves are falling here in Ithaca and the 
furnace is on.  I am feeling the impending darkness of autumn creeping into my 
afternoon activities.  I can only imagine the light where so many of you are.  

We welcome a month of discussion on Practice and Play: Gestures Across Genres 
organized by Margaret Rhee to celebrate innovation in cross-disciplinary art 
making.  Many of you will remember Margaret's discussion on Robot Poetics in 
May of 2017
http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2017-May/009683.html

Margaret is an incredible poet, writer and artist.  We are so lucky to have her 
on our -empyre- Editorial Advisory Board.  She brings warmth to us from 
Buffalo, New York this month with her diverse set of guests. 
Her biography is below.  Margaret will post the first post of the month 
tomorrow. 

Welcome Margaret and thank you. We look forward. 
Renate
 
Margaret Rhee is a poet, scholar, and new media artist. She is the author of 
Love, Robot, named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 
2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best 
Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. Her poetry 
chapbooks include Yellow and Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love, and 
forthcoming collection Poetry Machines: A Letter to a Future Reader, a 
collection of lyrical essays on poetry, and the intersections of cinema, art, 
and new media. Currently, she is completing her monograph How We Became Human: 
Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body. She was a College Fellow in Digital 
Practice in the English Department at Harvard University and a member of 
MetaLab @ Harvard. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in ethnic studies 
with a designated emphasis in new media studies. She is an Assistant Professor 
in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo and co-leads Palah 파랗 Light 
Studios, a creative space for poetry, participation, and pedagogy through 
technology.




Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rfe...@cornell.edu
 
 

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[-empyre-] Thank you Shu Lea Cheang

[Renate Ferro]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--
Dear Shu Lea and all of the September guests.  
Thank you so much on behalf of the entire -empyre- community.  This month's 
discussion was truly tremendous.  The "loose" threads are what --empyre- is all 
about.  The point is not to post published completed works but instead 
celebrate the impromptu art of fleeting exchange.  -empyre- is an unfinished 
unfolding platform for international exchange.  

The exchanges on SEX, LOVE, DEATH AND AGEING were raw and brave and so much 
appreciated.  

Shu Lea you are a force.  Your energy, intelligence, infectious creativity, 
your extended networks, and so much more have made this month on -empyre- truly 
unforgettable for all of us.  A sincere and heartfelt thank you for your 
organization on the listserv 

Archived here  http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/

and for the radio archives you organized in Linz

stwst48x5 website
http://stwst48x5.stwst.at/en/unfinished_list

cba archive
https://cba.fro.at/series/stwst48x5

Many thanks to all,
Renate


Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rfe...@cornell.edu
 
 


 

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Re: [-empyre-] AMAZON IS BURNING

[margaretha haughwout]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks to everyone dedicated to sharing important information and news on
this thread. Its been a rich few weeks -- I hope we can return to this
crisis and get updates from Brazil in coming months on -empyre-.

M

--
beforebefore.net
--




On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 1:25 AM isabelle arvers  wrote:

> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
> Gisela,
>
> Reading your post about the US Influence in Latin America made me think
> about a book published by the Judge Eva Joly about France influence in
> Africa, where she explains the France Afrique system, that looks very
> similar to what you describe. Here is a little extract of her book "La
> Force qui nous manque", "tyrants are friends that France has placed in
> power and whose protects their wealth and influence through its extensive
> networks of corruption; in exchange they look after the interests and
> resources of French companies who have come to dig the soil. All this
> beautiful world has an interest in that nothing, ever, stimulates neither
> the institutions nor the economy of the countries."
>
> How could we support and link different activist's movements throughout
> different continents?
>
> Isabelle
> [image:
> http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]
> 
> Isabelle Arvers
> Curator, art critic and artist
> Wattsap: +33 661 998 386
> http://www.isabellearvers.com
> Director of Kareron www.kareron.com
> https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour
> twitter: @zabarvers
> instagram.com/zabarvers
> youtube.com/zabarvers
> https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers
> Skype ID: iarvers
>
>
> Le mar. 24 sept. 2019 à 07:03, Gisela Domschke  a
> écrit :
>
>> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've been following the thread, and the reflections presented are of
>> great interest. Following the article published by The Intercept, mentioned
>> by Lucia Agra, about Bolsonaro's plans for the Amazon area, I believe it's
>> important to highlight its connection to the permanent strategic objectives
>> of the United States for Latin America, as pointed by ambassador Samuel
>> Pinheiro Guimarães:
>>
>> 1. to prevent state or alliance of states from reducing US influence in
>> the region; 2. to broaden its cultural / ideological influence on the
>> communication systems of each state; 3. to incorporate all the economies of
>> the region into the American economy; 4. to disarm the states of the
>> region; 5. to maintain the regional policy coordination and alignment
>> system; 6. to prevent the presence, especially military, of adversary
>> powers in the region; 7. to punish states that contradict the principles of
>> American hegemonic leadership; 8. toprevent the development of autonomous
>> industries in advanced areas; 9. to weaken the states of the region; 10. to
>> elect political leaders favorable to US goals.
>>
>> Those are United States' objectives for Latin America in general, but
>> apply in particular to Brazil, the main state in the region by size of
>> territory, natural resources, population, geographical location. Also,
>> since President Lula's election in 2003, Brazilian domestic and foreign
>> policy has opposed, albeit not systematically, some of America's strategic
>> goals.
>>
>> From this new situation in Brazil-United States relations and the growing
>> popularity of President Lula, the American strategy was:
>> · To mobilize the mass media in Brazil against government policies;
>> · Under the Brazil-United States judicial cooperation agreement, to
>> initiate *Operation Lava Jato* that would facilitate the achievement of
>> the US strategic objectives in particular 2, 8, 9 and 10, listed above;
>> · To initiate the political process of preparing impeachment of President
>> Dilma Rousseff;
>> · Directly and indirectly finance the formation of the MBL and *Vem pra
>> Rua* groups (popular anti-Lula movements)
>>
>> The main objective of *Operation Lava Jato* was not the fight against
>> corruption, but to prevent the election of President Lula in 2018.
>> “Corruption” was countered by *Operation Lava Jato*, headed by Sérgio
>> Moro, a lower court judge who had the connivance and even the cooperation
>> of members of the High Courts and the mainstream press for a highly
>> unorthodox and illegal procedural conduct. All the illegal aspects of his
>> conduct have widely been unveiled by the secret files published by The
>> Intercept. However, no action has been taken so far by the High Courts to
>> revert this situation.
>>
>> The United States of America has achieved its main strategic objective:
>> to elect political leaders favorable to US goals. And with Bolsonaro's
>> government they are achieving all the other goals listed above.
>>
>> Besides the great films suggested by Fabi, I'd also add to the list the
>> recently launched 

Re: [-empyre-] proposalproposal +++ Quarryscar - Andrew Gryf Paterson

[andrew gryf paterson]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--We are UNFINISHED (it was such a rich seam that we will be digging back in
for days or weeks making sense of the interconnections of threads and felts)

As I have been mostly out of email the past week or so, I am happy that my
contribution Quarryscar as a 'proposal proposal' sits still and calmly in
mid-air. Hopefully it was interesting to some of you.
I understood afterwards it is maybe a bit densely compacted soil of
deposited thought, but i hoped poetic to have some space for entry into a
very personal and largely inaccessible site.

Shu Lea suggested that I/we attempt to imagine what might be in another 20
years. Lets presume that the intra-actants of the quarry site are not
human, they could be weeds, birds, worms, insects, small mammals, bacteria,
moulds, lichens..
That the wind, water and particulates will continue to gather and swirl
there. The World Without Us as imagined by Alan Weisman (2005) was a world
without human presence. I am not imagining that. Although maybe in the
microcosm of the wounded hill it will be left to be. Of course I anticipate
and it is very very likely the settlement of Tillicoultry will continue to
be there with humans as the more obvious species making its mark on the
land, water and air.. Living, working, relaxing, sleeping, making love,
bairns (kids), kin, and plants, all ageing and growing up as they have
before together. Together for sure with microplastics, affluents including
all sorts of pharmaceuticals, medicines, hormones and potential
neuro-affectors. Our accumulated digital files and metadata may be
considered as another kind of affluent that will be massively stored
somewhere else as run-off from our late neuro-/cognitive-/surveillance
capitalist lifestyles, most likely, just because the effort to re-locate
people's data to their hometown on mass is unlikely, and hell, who is
interested and caring about this massive re-matricalisation/patrialisation
of shadow data-bodies back to the land? As the ancients did with their
organic bodies onto the organic soil, under large piles of stones, cairns
they were called. Visit Kilmartin Valley some time if you are in Argyll
area of West Scotland (Ref:
https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/kilmartin-p235211).. You
will not be surprised to hear my archaeological metaphorical mind was
strengthened there in 2001.. So, in the future, I can imagine that I will
re-maternalize my data-body (lets hope archive.org is still going in 20
years) to Tillicoultry glen, locative-media-virtual-votive-depost -style at
a place I designated as a centre-point XYZ back in 1999, as a castle in the
air. Wounded data.landscapes that don't heal are ones that left unplugged,
unfinished in advance, ghosts that can't even roam.

Warm greetings from a ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki, with a Pakistan
visa in my passport, 2-day mission accomplished. A new adventure is ahead.

cheerie for now!
,a


On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 08:41, andrew gryf paterson  wrote:

> Dear Empyrists,
>
> Followers, fellows and contributors to the UNFINISHED series of the past
> almost month, Greetings!
>
> It has been a remarkable set of threads to wear on the eyes, in the mind,
> and woven through the hard disks, drives and devices we hold close and
> probably dear. Thanks so much to Shu Lea for hosting and her care in
> facilitating the beginnings and endings. I have been lurking mostly during
> busy presence-focused weeks here in FI.
>
>
> I wish to address in this thread of unfinishedness what I hope is the
> familiar trope or concept of *What is left behind* in ephemeral practices,
> and *What remains* from our actions or conceptions. Since sometime 2003-4,
> in my biography, now here &  I have used the following
> statement "What is left behind as social, digital, material and ephemeral
> residue of 'being t/here' has been a consistent concern"
>
> I offer an unfinished process, one that in the background has been a
> guiding motivation of some kind for me: 'castles in the air' (ref: title of
> a traditional scottish song, as recorded by James Ballantyne, 19th C., a
> popular image or ‘meme’ ever since) that was poetic, virtual, and
> personally or collectively historical.
>
>
> +++ Quarryscar (1999) +++
>
> https://archive.org/details/agryfp-1999-quarryscar
>
>
> My example, ‘Quarryscar’ is a project that I conceived 20 years ago, and
> was the basis of 2 funding applications to Scottish Arts Council Public
> Arts fund, which they wisely *I still reckon* turned down their financial
> support. At the time I only had the vision, not the skill or capacity
> arguably to realise the project. My budget was laughable, my production
> schedule naive. Although I was disappointed it didn't happen at that time,
> I am happy it still stands unfinished, archived as something
> 'not-yet-become' (ref: Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope Vol.1), as a
> motivator to keep going, stored with unrealised potential..
>
>
> 

[-empyre-] curtain call - September STAY UNFINISHED EXPANDED on -empyre-

[Shu Lea Cheang]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--
hihi, dear empyre-ers

The archive of -empyre- is in Australia... I didnt catch the Ozzie time 
to close this September month.
McKenzie and Murat's last posting went into October month , sorry about 
this.
quick answer to Murat's question about *Fear Eats the Soul, I love this 
film, I learn to love couscous as my homecooking after this film.


so-
Curtain call for this, for myself, a tremendous month! I thank all the 
PLAYERS in this unfolding narrative of issues and senses.


So many of you to thank. mostly Renate and Tim for keeping -empyre- 
alive, for this kind platform, for allowing me to play with such 
international cast of intelligence!


This last week of september, i deliberately let a few threads run loose.
what a tour de force on unfinished publishing dialogue! so many issues 
reviewed and previewed.

thank you, pauline, josephine, alessandro, simon et simon, Nicolas, Craig.
proposal proposal+++ thank you, pamela, isabelle, jamika, Andrew and 
Allan for sharing.. we follow you.
for sex death love - on AGEING... we have just begun!! thank you, Annie, 
Miha, Murat, ruth, alan, ana, theresa and Sandy (!! she smoked herself 
out of the cave!!) ... and now i would change subject line: LOVE SEX 
LIVE - on AGEING.


The week starts with a revisit to the grand theme of Stadtwerkstatt's 
artistic vision, NEW ART CONTEXTS... thanks to my curatorial/thinking 
partners, Tanja and Franz at STWST, and thanks to jaromil to bring in 
dirt on hands... codes and dirts. information and speed,


a final word from me for this month, I leave you with Das Loch. Think 
deep and sensual... as signal arrives.


all very best
sl


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Re: [-empyre-] sex death love - on AGEING

[Murat Nemet-Nejat]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Is anybody familiar with German director Fassbinder's film *Fear Eats the
Soul, *the love between a German woman in her sixties and a North African
man in around his forties?

Murat

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:04 AM warkk  wrote:

> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
> thank you  Shu Lea for recalling Sandy’s legendary performance. It’s also
> described in the book I’m writing about right now: Time is a thing a body
> moves through by T. Fleischmann. The book is a lovely meditation on Felix
> Gonzales Torres among other things.
>
> It had not occurred to me that when I saw Sandy perform she would have
> been about the age I am now. I don’t know why I  like the thought of that.
>
> They say transition is a second puberty but I like to think puberty is a
> transition also. So is menopause. Transition is just a thing our bodies do.
> They mess with the times if the body.
>
> I do feel like I am both 58 and 18 at the same time. My 18 year old self
> is going out dancing at raves and doing drugs and making out with strangers
> while my 58 year old self is doing her best to keep her safe.
>
> My 18 year old self is making a lot of friends who are a little older and
> wiser on her timeline. On the other timeline they all seem to be 30 years
> old, where my 58 year old self marvels at how advanced they are compared to
> when I (we) were 30. The kids are all right. They are oblivious to what
> will hit them if the world endures long enough for them to be 58 and I’m
> reluctant to tell them too much.
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:23 AM Shu Lea Cheang 
> wrote:
>
>> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>>
>> Dear Annie
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Very courageous for posting here on this particular topics and i also
>> thank Miha, Ana, Murat, Alan, Ruth, Simon, Theresa and Sandy who share
>> their very personal thoughts on this. I do want us to feel here at -empyre-
>> soft skinned space, among our colleagues (contemporaries), we can bring
>> these issues up. Being naked, vulnerable and brave. For a long time. i have
>> not thought it is possible to bring my sex work (my side job as scifi porn
>> filmmaker) or queer/gender issues into 'legitimate' media forum discussion.
>> I am glad this september here at -empyre-, we make a step forward.
>>
>> Without getting into penetration, Sandy's orgasmic performance in which
>> she relocates her G-spot to her palm, rubbing it (masturbate) to arrive at
>> orgasm with public encouragement. Sandy was performing this act in pretty
>> much all major media conferences in the 90s,to recall this act, Sandy must
>> be in her late 50s at the time? She has virtually repositioned her orgasmic
>> power.
>>
>> Sandy Stone on interaction, interface and Desire.
>> https://duplox.wzb.eu/docs/panel/sandy.html
>>
>> best
>>
>> sl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30.09.19 12:32, Annie Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Trying to look back at these few days I notice it is difficult to treat
>> the subject of "sexuality and age" in public. I read some very touching
>> stories on ageing (Simon, Ana), but we only sidewise touched on sexuality,
>> on the kind (what kind?) that goes with old age.
>>
>> We only sidewise touched on sexuality, on the kind (what kind?) that goes
>> with old age. But that is a construct (Miha). Thanks to Ruth for
>> encouraging me, for pointing to how politic the subject is and to how
>> body-chemistry permanently changes the way it feels to be alive, and in
>> relation to other people, that it opens up whole new dimensions of relating
>> and resonating with the world, whilst leaving behind others. From
>> Murat's reaction I learned how awfully difficult it is to discuss the
>> subject in public.
>> I think I will go on researching, but I will try to create safer
>> conditions. It feels necessary and I am not afraid to fail (nothing to
>> loose :)). If so, I will contact some of you again. I will need diversity.
>> If someone else on the list would be interested or can give me tips for a
>> "how to" please write me a personal mail.
>>
>> Ageing goes with loss as Murat said.
>> Socializing our houses and our ageing (Ana) won't be done for us, so yes
>> we should start making kin, taking care (Sandy) early.
>> It can also be an opportunity. It is an opportunity for resilience and
>> change.
>>
>> Shu Lea thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to mutate my
>> anger to an interesting exchange.
>>
>> Ps.
>> I would love to see the exhibition Alan dreams of - Anger is a force 
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:29 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
>> sa...@sandystone.com> wrote:
>>
>>> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>>> I just returned from dinner with a robust, boisterous group of people
>>> who live in cohousing.  They decided to follow Donna's injunction to "make
>>> kin", and 

Re: [-empyre-] sex death love - on AGEING

[warkk]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--thank you  Shu Lea for recalling Sandy’s legendary performance. It’s also
described in the book I’m writing about right now: Time is a thing a body
moves through by T. Fleischmann. The book is a lovely meditation on Felix
Gonzales Torres among other things.

It had not occurred to me that when I saw Sandy perform she would have been
about the age I am now. I don’t know why I  like the thought of that.

They say transition is a second puberty but I like to think puberty is a
transition also. So is menopause. Transition is just a thing our bodies do.
They mess with the times if the body.

I do feel like I am both 58 and 18 at the same time. My 18 year old self is
going out dancing at raves and doing drugs and making out with strangers
while my 58 year old self is doing her best to keep her safe.

My 18 year old self is making a lot of friends who are a little older and
wiser on her timeline. On the other timeline they all seem to be 30 years
old, where my 58 year old self marvels at how advanced they are compared to
when I (we) were 30. The kids are all right. They are oblivious to what
will hit them if the world endures long enough for them to be 58 and I’m
reluctant to tell them too much.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:23 AM Shu Lea Cheang  wrote:

> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>
> Dear Annie
>
> Thank you.
>
> Very courageous for posting here on this particular topics and i also
> thank Miha, Ana, Murat, Alan, Ruth, Simon, Theresa and Sandy who share
> their very personal thoughts on this. I do want us to feel here at -empyre-
> soft skinned space, among our colleagues (contemporaries), we can bring
> these issues up. Being naked, vulnerable and brave. For a long time. i have
> not thought it is possible to bring my sex work (my side job as scifi porn
> filmmaker) or queer/gender issues into 'legitimate' media forum discussion.
> I am glad this september here at -empyre-, we make a step forward.
>
> Without getting into penetration, Sandy's orgasmic performance in which
> she relocates her G-spot to her palm, rubbing it (masturbate) to arrive at
> orgasm with public encouragement. Sandy was performing this act in pretty
> much all major media conferences in the 90s,to recall this act, Sandy must
> be in her late 50s at the time? She has virtually repositioned her orgasmic
> power.
>
> Sandy Stone on interaction, interface and Desire.
> https://duplox.wzb.eu/docs/panel/sandy.html
>
> best
>
> sl
>
>
>
>
>
> On 30.09.19 12:32, Annie Abrahams wrote:
>
> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Trying to look back at these few days I notice it is difficult to treat
> the subject of "sexuality and age" in public. I read some very touching
> stories on ageing (Simon, Ana), but we only sidewise touched on sexuality,
> on the kind (what kind?) that goes with old age.
>
> We only sidewise touched on sexuality, on the kind (what kind?) that goes
> with old age. But that is a construct (Miha). Thanks to Ruth for
> encouraging me, for pointing to how politic the subject is and to how
> body-chemistry permanently changes the way it feels to be alive, and in
> relation to other people, that it opens up whole new dimensions of relating
> and resonating with the world, whilst leaving behind others. From Murat's
> reaction I learned how awfully difficult it is to discuss the subject in
> public.
> I think I will go on researching, but I will try to create safer
> conditions. It feels necessary and I am not afraid to fail (nothing to
> loose :)). If so, I will contact some of you again. I will need diversity.
> If someone else on the list would be interested or can give me tips for a
> "how to" please write me a personal mail.
>
> Ageing goes with loss as Murat said.
> Socializing our houses and our ageing (Ana) won't be done for us, so yes
> we should start making kin, taking care (Sandy) early.
> It can also be an opportunity. It is an opportunity for resilience and
> change.
>
> Shu Lea thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to mutate my
> anger to an interesting exchange.
>
> Ps.
> I would love to see the exhibition Alan dreams of - Anger is a force 
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:29 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
> sa...@sandystone.com> wrote:
>
>> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>> I just returned from dinner with a robust, boisterous group of people who
>> live in cohousing.  They decided to follow Donna's injunction to "make
>> kin", and they're successful at it. People of many ages, many professions,
>> including the elderly and the differently abled.  They care for each other.
>>
>> I helped build and help run a community radio station that brings
>> together people of many ages and many ability levels to keep alive our
>> motto "many voices, one station".  We care for each other.
>>
>> Instead of looking outward at the horrors perpetrated by our 

Re: [-empyre-] proposal proposal +++ art and games world tour

[Jamika Ajalon]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--*i’m a fugitive thats how i liveas i go along making up the narrative
forget what you heard  forget what they said im
just a hologram in your head *hey there shu lee thanks for the
introduction!!!

I don’t want to leave here more / more / more  to much to read just this :


1)the two poems fluid code and space cow-boi blue that you see at the end
of this email were/are central to some of the inter -disciplinary
art/research i have done in the past recent past, and yes the recent future
:-).   (i french poet recently told me that i managed package a huge
part of what Deluze was saying in “ space blues cowboi”.   )


other links to videos/songs/digital poetry mutations  and the melange of
many elements: including an earlier paper on FAR (fugitive archetype of
resistance)  And a link to a recent one.

looking to blow up every part of this arts/research practice of mine and
 let the pieces fall where they may in a sort of digital cut up.   .. any
one already playing in that field or wants to play or parlay please holla
when u can/are inspired.

happy empyre-ing to you all


i haven't commented but have been reading through this exciting inspiring
sharing across digital space/timelines ..

Recent publication on FAR in this great book full of great writing:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4601-6/we-travel-the-space-ways/

Older pub on FAR:
https://www.academia.edu/s/07792b16e2/far-now_the-fugitive-archetype-of-resistance-and-her-ever-changing-now

other stuff (the last link to “runaway slave” is a song in progress  for
next album
https://vimeo.com/149306465 space blues cowboi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkvuJ0-hNVY=6s. npoem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fQaTxtdJ-c=118s.  from anti lecture
start from  around 15;52 for relevent bits and/ 13;))
https://soundcloud.com/nicklaus-rohrbach/runaway-jan19-1/s-luAVI?in=nicklaus-rohrbach/sets/jata-preprods-2019/s-ujMf5--
 runaway slave

Latest book
https://www.facebook.com/takebackthenarrative/


Home
Where ever I lay my hat
IS where I belong
always
Gone
a rolling stone
beat in the bone
beat in the bone

She’s a space cowboi blue
Azonal
Where she be, in between spaces
She move between places
Leaving traces
Investigating interzonal cases

Unheard unseen
In between
Breaking out stasis
Radio static oasis

watch she tighten up her laces
Rocket boots charged
She trip thru dimensions
Frequency sensation
disciple of creation

be patient

she move in all direction
with out detection
viral transmission
Breaking the cage
with all this rage fueling
her rocket boots flying
high high
swallow up the sky
singing bye bye

she defy
Escher staircases
while she lie
in waiting to see what the winds of change
will make she
carry no flags
just notebooks and rag tags
rewiring the matrix
she exist in azonal spaces

Ajalon 2012/2016, Space Cowboi Blue

RECODE
We need to create a subversive lingo
which misses the detection

of the rei-ficating machine
that which sucks the life out
of creative protest
movements toward positive change...
and turns it into profit and propaganda of cool.
a fluid code is needed.
a poly speak not unlike that which was used during
the times of the underground railroad.
it can be hidden in plain view
Foster change under the nose of the machine skewing
the eye-line of its surveillance camera
facilitating human social revolution
through overt covert action
But i digress, back to the code.
Write a code. Create a code.
Decode and recode.
Until all systems of language erode
into one continuous vibration
One sound. (one sonic sensation)
Random echoes would act as a splinter
in white light revealing the prism.
One sound splinters into many scales
and chord combinations.
Langue is (redefined in the meta molecular)
undefined as communication
is meta-molecular giving way to
a mélange of atomic noise
and (a)tonal phrasings.
Ajalon, 2008, Decode Recode, Poemetrics

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:53 AM isabelle arvers  wrote:

> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
> Dear all,
>
> I just landed in Mumbai as India is my 6th step in my art and games world
> tour, after Japan where I felt a lot of self censorship following the last
> events around Aichi Triennale where the statue of a comfort women presented
> as part of the exhibition "After Freedom of Expression" created a scandale
> and pushed the Nagoya governor to shut down the exhibition as well as all
> the fundings for the entire Triennale...
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/world/asia/japan-aichi-trienniale.html
>
> Almost impossible to find any political games or controversial or engaged
> artworks, but... I succeeded to find a game created by a non binary couple:
> No longer home https://humblegrove.com/ as well as the games created by
> KC on npckc.Site about trangender women going to hotsprings... Both are
> working under nicknames and protect their identities, knowing that one of
> them has a 

Re: [-empyre-] sex death love - on AGEING

[Annie Abrahams]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all,

Trying to look back at these few days I notice it is difficult to treat the
subject of "sexuality and age" in public. I read some very touching stories
on ageing (Simon, Ana), but we only sidewise touched on sexuality, on the
kind (what kind?) that goes with old age.

We only sidewise touched on sexuality, on the kind (what kind?) that goes
with old age. But that is a construct (Miha). Thanks to Ruth for
encouraging me, for pointing to how politic the subject is and to how
body-chemistry permanently changes the way it feels to be alive, and in
relation to other people, that it opens up whole new dimensions of relating
and resonating with the world, whilst leaving behind others. From Murat's
reaction I learned how awfully difficult it is to discuss the subject in
public.
I think I will go on researching, but I will try to create safer
conditions. It feels necessary and I am not afraid to fail (nothing to
loose :)). If so, I will contact some of you again. I will need diversity.
If someone else on the list would be interested or can give me tips for a
"how to" please write me a personal mail.

Ageing goes with loss as Murat said.
Socializing our houses and our ageing (Ana) won't be done for us, so yes we
should start making kin, taking care (Sandy) early.
It can also be an opportunity. It is an opportunity for resilience and
change.

Shu Lea thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to mutate my
anger to an interesting exchange.

Ps.
I would love to see the exhibition Alan dreams of - Anger is a force 



On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:29 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
sa...@sandystone.com> wrote:

> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
> I just returned from dinner with a robust, boisterous group of people who
> live in cohousing.  They decided to follow Donna's injunction to "make
> kin", and they're successful at it. People of many ages, many professions,
> including the elderly and the differently abled.  They care for each other.
>
> I helped build and help run a community radio station that brings together
> people of many ages and many ability levels to keep alive our motto "many
> voices, one station".  We care for each other.
>
> Instead of looking outward at the horrors perpetrated by our society on
> the old and sick and different and differently abled, we look inward and
> build our own for our own.  It's extremely hard, it's dangerous, it's
> possible to fail.  But if we don't make kin, if we don't take care of our
> own, no one will.  To that, I dedicate a large portion of my life. Let
> others point out how awful life can be for the elderly, and let others try
> to understand what can be done and how to do it.  In the warping presence
> of the destructive forces of capital, in the face of all of patriarchy's
> evil, we'll simply do all we can to continue to make kin and to care for
> each other.
>
> That's all I have to say on the topic of aging.
>
> Sandy
> 
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Re: [-empyre-] proposal proposal +++ art and games world tour

[isabelle arvers]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all,

I just landed in Mumbai as India is my 6th step in my art and games world
tour, after Japan where I felt a lot of self censorship following the last
events around Aichi Triennale where the statue of a comfort women presented
as part of the exhibition "After Freedom of Expression" created a scandale
and pushed the Nagoya governor to shut down the exhibition as well as all
the fundings for the entire Triennale...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/world/asia/japan-aichi-trienniale.html

Almost impossible to find any political games or controversial or engaged
artworks, but... I succeeded to find a game created by a non binary couple:
No longer home https://humblegrove.com/ as well as the games created by KC
on npckc.Site about trangender women going to hotsprings... Both are
working under nicknames and protect their identities, knowing that one of
them has a Korean name which is quiet difficult now in Japan, regarding the
hard relationships between Korea, China, and Japan.

I am now in India for one month, I will visit Pune as well as
Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar
and Bangalore and Goa, if you know any artist working with game engines or
around game culture, or game makers, or media activists, feminists, queer,
hacktivists, please let me know, I am here to meet and interview them;)

Also, Shu Lea asked me to give you an update of the next steps of this
world tour as well as the dates of my visits if by any chance we can meet
there or if you know people I should meet:

India: 30 sept - 7 nov

Colombia: Bogota 8 nov - 18 nov

In Bogota I am curating a feminist and queer art and game exhibition with
the artists: Mathilde Guerrero, Nora Renaud, Nadia Granados, Tatyana
Zambrano, Esteban Betancur at the French Alliance

Argentina : Buenos Aires 18 nov 5 december

I will curate an indie game exhibition as part of Game On! El Arte de Juego
in Buenos Aires with the following games: Replica by Somi (a game about
surveillance) from Korea, Coffee Talk by Fahmi Hesni and She and the light
Bearer by Brigitta Rena from Indonesia, Devotion by Red Candles Studio from
Taïwan and Make it rain (about corruption) by Cloud Colour from Thailand. I
will also be part of GAIA (Game Arts International Assembly)

I will also curate an exibition of games and VR experiences made by women I
met during my world tour in Korea, TaIwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan
and as soon as I will have close my program I will publish it.

Brasil : 6 december - 3 january

Mexico : 3 january - 29 january

Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Egypt, Lebanon, Israël and Palestine: from
february 11 to end of June, I am currently working on the exact schedule.

For all these countries I am visiting, again, all the contacts you could
have will be more than helpful: artist working with game engines or around
game culture, or game makers, or media activists, feminists, queer,
hacktivists

Thank you so much in advance and really looking forward meeting more of you
during my tour as well as your friends all around the world,

Again Shu Lea, thank you, it was a wonderful month, I learned a lot reading
all the threads and discussions,
lets stay unfinished!!!

Isabelle




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Le jeu. 26 sept. 2019 à 13:53, isabelle arvers  a écrit :

> Dear Ana
>
> I will read and discover all the texts and links you just sent me. Thank
> you so much for your answer and these insights. Hopefully things and
> mentalities have slightly evolved in terms of representation and diversity.
>
> About the otherness and identity issue in videogames I curated some years
> ago this machinima exhibition
> http://www.isabellearvers.com/2012/08/identity-otherness-games-machinima/
> for which I directed my first machinima I is an other in which I am a black
> man talking about our multiple identities and also about the possibility to
> consider the other in videogames differently than only a villain a
> terrorist or an enemy. https://youtu.be/04l2tAgc7Hs
>
> I just interviewed today a non binary game maker who will soon publish the
> game No longer home à visual novel game that deals with gender identity as
> well as borders and migration in a very autobiographical style . It really
> made my day as I also like a lot the aesthetic of the game and the subtle
> way to adress those issues.
>
> In Korea I also met the Gamebridzy studio that works on the game The
> Wednesday which deals with comfort women and the Japanese colonization past
> of Korea. The heroin of this game is one of the survivor Kim Bok 

Re: [-empyre-] sex death love - on AGEING

[Allucquere Rosanne Stone]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--I just returned from dinner with a robust, boisterous group of people 
who live in cohousing.  They decided to follow Donna's injunction to 
"make kin", and they're successful at it. People of many ages, many 
professions, including the elderly and the differently abled.  They care 
for each other.


I helped build and help run a community radio station that brings 
together people of many ages and many ability levels to keep alive our 
motto "many voices, one station".  We care for each other.


Instead of looking outward at the horrors perpetrated by our society on 
the old and sick and different and differently abled, we look inward and 
build our own for our own.  It's extremely hard, it's dangerous, it's 
possible to fail.  But if we don't make kin, if we don't take care of 
our own, no one will.  To that, I dedicate a large portion of my life. 
Let others point out how awful life can be for the elderly, and let 
others try to understand what can be done and how to do it.  In the 
warping presence of the destructive forces of capital, in the face of 
all of patriarchy's evil, we'll simply do all we can to continue to make 
kin and to care for each other.


That's all I have to say on the topic of aging.

Sandy 
 

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Re: [-empyre-] sex death love - on AGEING

[Allucquere Rosanne Stone]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--
I just returned from dinner with a robust, boisterous group of people 
who live in cohousing.  They decided to follow Donna's injunction to 
"make kin", and they're successful at it. People of many ages, many 
professions, including the elderly and the differently abled.  They care 
for each other.


I helped build and help run a community radio station that brings 
together people of many ages and many ability levels to keep alive our 
motto "many voices, one station".  We care for each other.


Instead of looking outward at the horrors perpetrated by our society on 
the old and sick and different and differently abled, we look inward and 
build our own for our own.  It's extremely hard, it's dangerous, it's 
possible to fail.  But if we don't make kin, if we don't take care of 
our own, no one will.  To that, I dedicate a large portion of my life. 
Let others point out how awful life can be for the elderly, and let 
others try to understand what can be done and how to do it.  In the 
warping presence of the destructive forces of capital, in the face of 
all of patriarchy's evil, we'll simply do all we can to continue to make 
kin and to care for each other.


That's all I have to say on the topic of aging.

Sandy

Alan Sondheim wrote on 9/29/19 5:20 PM:

--empyre- soft-skinned space--

This opens up so many areas. Attention issues are a critical issue in 
education today; I don't think even now that cellphone addiction has 
been sufficiently dealt with or at least addressed. I keep hearing 
people making snap decisions or taking snap metaphors from physics 
(i.e. black hole this, black hole that, etc.); if you look at any 
elementary physics book today, you immediately recognize how complex, 
how amazing convoluted the world is! And it takes years for a student 
to comprehend this, to deal with it, even to constribute to the field. 
It's even more of an issue with, for example, contemporary biology, 
genetics, etc. For a while I studied physical anthropology in college 
and it was a relatively simple and organized field - today you need 
geology, genetics, molecular analysis, computer reconstruction, etc. 
It can be incredibly exciting but it's demanding on a student. So it's 
the same thing culture-wide - I agree with you. On one hand the world 
is unbelievable, and unbelievably layered; on the other, students want 
the imminence of the screen, of a digital life where everything is 
at-hand. There's no easy answer...


I've gone through Susskind's Theoretical Minimum books (not 
understanding everything); they're enormously enriching; he does an 
amazing job at bringing the fundamentals and their contradictions home...


Best, Alan, in agreement!



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