Re: [-empyre-] subscribers post bios until Wednesday

[Sean Cubitt]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--well it;s still wednesday here in the UK
I've been in and out of empyre for years but in recent times lurking. Norie's 
tribute to Arhus makes me want to offer one to her and Miranda, the VCA, and 
many others on the list. I've pottered round the planet for some while now, 
mostly teaching, which I now do at Goldsmiths in London in the Media and 
Communications dept.,  and writing, often about media arts, and dabbling in 
curation I even made a few pieces, though few in public, and those really so I 
could understand more about what I wanted to write about. I have perpetrated 
some books.  What I like about empyre is that it is made of writing, but 
writing which is about stuff, a word of great importance. Writing is often 
about writing, and often about ideas (or axioms) both of which I enjoy, but 
writing that touches on, is informed by, and tests itself against real stuff is 
what I come to empyre for.

sean

On 3 Feb 2016, at 04:03, Norie Neumark wrote:

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Hello Empyre and Empryians,
Long time no write… but I do lurk and  enjoy reading the stimulating posts.

Thank you Renate for the extension of the deadline for introductions,  I seem 
to hover a bit too often these days in that space of extended deadlines… Here’s 
my catch up over the last few years, by way of introduction.

I’m inspired to write by seeing the post from Christian Ulrik Andersen from 
Aarhus University, which brought back  memories of my recent (well 2 years ago 
now!) guest professorship there, when I met him and Soren Pold and Geoff Cox 
and so many other great artists/researchers. (I was invited there by Ansa 
Lonstrop to work on my project on voice and new materialism). I have to say 
it’s a long time since I’ve gotten up each day to go to work with such a sense 
of joy as I did in Aarhus. And the conversations there were inspiring for my 
work. So hej Christian, and any other Aarhus Empryians and lurkers…

That project has become a book that I am writing for MIT Press, Voicetracks: 
Voice and media and media art in the post humanist turn — hopefully to be out 
later this year or early next. Other work on the project has been book chapters 
and journal articles. One chapter is in Konstantin Thomaidis and Ben 
Macpherson’s, Voice Studies — where it was good to see a chapter by Nina Sun 
Eidsheim, whom I met at a residency, at Cornell (hey there snow-loving 
Ithacans!) at the Society for the Humanities. The journal article is in Journal 
of Sonic Studies 10 http://sonicstudies.org/jss10 


I’ve been keeping up my art practice with collaborator Maria Miranda 
(www.out-of-sync.com 
). We got obsessed with pollution and coal after a 
residency in Beijing and came home and made the work Coalface, installation and 
tumblr blog http://coalfaces.tumblr.com/ . More 
recently we’ve been doing work provoked by the cruelties of redundancy — 
exploring the aesthetics of neolliberalism. We had an exhibition in Sydney last 
year and one coming up in Melbourne this year. Videos in the project are 
Shredded: Stuplimity and the Aesthetics of Neo-Liberalism 
https://vimeo.com/126581615  and You will go 
Quietly  https://vimeo.com/111494446 . Making the 
project to get over my sense of being thrown away by redundancy, we were helped 
by the Three Stooges, well, two of them did, Curly was made redundant, and 
Sianne Ngai (Ugly Feelings). We’ve done a bit of radiophonic work too — radio 
is my first and still dearest love. The work was  Spacejunk 
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/space-junk/4496330 
 (We were 
obsessed with Space Junk for a few years, and made a video too 
https://vimeo.com/48430885 )

I’m now happily located at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the 
University of Melbourne. VCA is now hosting (along with LaTrobe University) the 
media rich and peer-reviewed Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts,  of which I 
am founding editor. http://unlikely.net.au/   Check 
out the first issue, Feral. There are lots of exciting projects coming up 
through Unlikely, including this year’s issue on Fieldworks, guest edited by 
Lucas Ihlein and Brogan Bunt, out of the University of Wollongong. We also are 
launching a whole new e-publication stream with downloadable e-books and media 
art projects— all coordinated by Jan Brueggemeier 
(j...@neture.org ). The first 

Re: [-empyre-] subscribers post bios until Wednesday

[Aneta Stojnic]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello empire!

Here is Aneta Stojnic, artist, theoretician, researcher and curator (not 
necessarily in that order!). My main interests are in theory and practice of 
performing arts, politics of new media technologies, contemporary art practices 
that affirm critical thinking and various intersections of art, philosophy and 
cultural studies especially when they include the decolonial perspective. 

Originally from Belgrade (Yugoslavia), but have been traveling all the time, 
living and working in different the places, most recently in Vienna as a 
postdoc researcher at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Conceptual Art study 
program, and previously in Belgium where I was a postdoctoral research-fellow 
at Ghent University, Research centre S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & 
Media). 
Since a few weeks ago I am back to Belgrade where I am engaged as assistant 
professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications, teaching at the 
Department of Transdicsiplinary Humanities and Art Theory. 
I was Artist in residence in Tanzquartier Vienna in 2011 and writer in 
residence at KulturKontakt Austria in 2012, and have collaborated with 
institutions and organizations such as: Tanzquartier Wien, Open Systems 
(Vienna), Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillier (Paris), WUK / Kunsthalle Exnergasse 
(Vienna) , Quartier21 (MQ Vienna), Dansens Hus Stockholm, Odin Teatret 
(Denmark), BITEF (Belgrade), TkH Walking Theory, Pančevo Biennal and many 
others.
I've authored a number of international publications on contemporary art and 
media. 
(I should update my webpage with the “publications” section sometime soon but 
if someone happens to be interested here are a couple of links to some of my 
recent(ish) writings:
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ 
sn6jyZDAYzzJ4qmEdzPD
 /full 

https://anetastojnic.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/cyborgs_aneta-stojnic487.pdf
http://www.fmk.singidunum.ac.rs/content/artmedia/12_AM%207_Aneta%20Stojnic.pdf

Also, my first single-authored book was published last year in Belgrade based 
on my PhD thesis “Theory of Performance in Digital Art: Towards a New Political 
Performance”  (for now only in Serbian though). 

I was introduced to Empire by Johannes Birringer during the amazing discussion 
he and Alan Sondheim moderated in November 2014.  Since then I have been mostly 
a lurker, though I’ll try to engage in the upcoming discussions at this great 
space more actively in the future!

--
Dr. Aneta Stojnic
http://anetastojnic.wordpress.com/news/ 




> On Feb 3, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Marco Donnarumma  
> wrote:
> 
> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
> Dear all,
> 
> here's Marco, I'm a performer, computational sound artist and writer. I 
> perform with, and write about, human bodies, sound and machines and the 
> politics of their relation.
> 
> I have been reading the list with great interest for the past two or three 
> years, chimed in once, if I remember correctly.
> Here's a bit about me:
> 
> 
> // Research
> 
> I'm about to defend my PhD thesis at Goldsmiths, University of London, under 
> the supervision of Atau Tanaka and Matthew Fuller.
> 
> My research focusses on corporeality and computation for sound performance 
> and body art. With corporeality I refer to the physiological, 
> phenomenological and cultural basis of embodied practices. I have a 
> multidimensional approach to research which brings together sound art, 
> cultural and philosophical studies of the body, and human-computer 
> interaction.
> 
> My thesis proposes the notion of configuration as an analytical device and a 
> blueprint for artistic creation. Configuration defines the relationship of 
> the human being and technology as one where they affect each other’s 
> properties through a continuous, situated negotiation. In musical 
> performance, this involves a performer’s intuition, cognition, and 
> sensorimotor skills, an instrument’s material, musical and computational 
> properties, and sound’s vibrational and auditive qualities.
> I contend that particular configurations in musical performance reinforce, 
> alter or disrupt societal criteria against which human bodies and 
> technologies are assessed.
> 
> more in detail: http://marcodonnarumma.com/research/themes/ 
> 
> 
> 
> // Works
> 
> My latest performance, CORPUS NIL 
> , creates a tense choreographic 
> interchange between a performer and an autonomous machine using human 
> bioelectrical and bioacoustic signals. 0-INFINITY 
>  is a monumental architecture of 
> infrasound vibrations, audible sounds and 

Re: [-empyre-] subscribers post bios until Wednesday

[Norie Neumark]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyre and Empryians,
Long time no write… but I do lurk and  enjoy reading the stimulating posts.

Thank you Renate for the extension of the deadline for introductions,  I seem 
to hover a bit too often these days in that space of extended deadlines… Here’s 
my catch up over the last few years, by way of introduction.

I’m inspired to write by seeing the post from Christian Ulrik Andersen from 
Aarhus University, which brought back  memories of my recent (well 2 years ago 
now!) guest professorship there, when I met him and Soren Pold and Geoff Cox 
and so many other great artists/researchers. (I was invited there by Ansa 
Lonstrop to work on my project on voice and new materialism). I have to say 
it’s a long time since I’ve gotten up each day to go to work with such a sense 
of joy as I did in Aarhus. And the conversations there were inspiring for my 
work. So hej Christian, and any other Aarhus Empryians and lurkers…

That project has become a book that I am writing for MIT Press, Voicetracks: 
Voice and media and media art in the post humanist turn — hopefully to be out 
later this year or early next. Other work on the project has been book chapters 
and journal articles. One chapter is in Konstantin Thomaidis and Ben 
Macpherson’s, Voice Studies — where it was good to see a chapter by Nina Sun 
Eidsheim, whom I met at a residency, at Cornell (hey there snow-loving 
Ithacans!) at the Society for the Humanities. The journal article is in Journal 
of Sonic Studies 10 http://sonicstudies.org/jss10 


I’ve been keeping up my art practice with collaborator Maria Miranda 
(www.out-of-sync.com ). We got obsessed with 
pollution and coal after a residency in Beijing and came home and made the work 
Coalface, installation and tumblr blog http://coalfaces.tumblr.com/ 
. More recently we’ve been doing work provoked by 
the cruelties of redundancy — exploring the aesthetics of neolliberalism. We 
had an exhibition in Sydney last year and one coming up in Melbourne this year. 
Videos in the project are Shredded: Stuplimity and the Aesthetics of 
Neo-Liberalism https://vimeo.com/126581615  and 
You will go Quietly  https://vimeo.com/111494446 . 
Making the project to get over my sense of being thrown away by redundancy, we 
were helped by the Three Stooges, well, two of them did, Curly was made 
redundant, and Sianne Ngai (Ugly Feelings). We’ve done a bit of radiophonic 
work too — radio is my first and still dearest love. The work was  Spacejunk 
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/space-junk/4496330 
 (We were 
obsessed with Space Junk for a few years, and made a video too 
https://vimeo.com/48430885 )

I’m now happily located at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the 
University of Melbourne. VCA is now hosting (along with LaTrobe University) the 
media rich and peer-reviewed Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts,  of which I 
am founding editor. http://unlikely.net.au/   Check 
out the first issue, Feral. There are lots of exciting projects coming up 
through Unlikely, including this year’s issue on Fieldworks, guest edited by 
Lucas Ihlein and Brogan Bunt, out of the University of Wollongong. We also are 
launching a whole new e-publication stream with downloadable e-books and media 
art projects— all coordinated by Jan Brueggemeier (j...@neture.org 
). The first e-publication will be the proceedings 
(peer reviewed) from a conference, Restructure. Check out the Unlikely website, 
it’ll be out soon! Also there will be calls for proposals for guest edited 
editions and for contributions to the third issue, Seed Banks: Creative 
Ecological Investigations & Critical Plant Studies (working title)

I’ve gone on bit long here so I’ll let my bio and the Out-of-Sync bio do the 
rest of the talking, it’s nice to be out in the open again after a few years of 
lurking!

best
Norie
Bio: Norie Neumark is a sound/media artist and theorist.  Her sound studies 
research is currently focused on voice and the new materialist turn. Her 
writing on voice includes Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, 
(MIT Press, 2010), lead editor and contributor, and an upcoming monograph, 
Voicetracks – voice, media, and media arts in the posthumanist turn, under 
contract to MIT Press for 2016. Her collaborative art practice with Maria 
Miranda  has been commissioned and exhibited nationally and internationally. 
She is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at VCA and Emeritus Professor, La Trobe 
University, Melbourne, and the founding editor of Unlikely: Journal for 
Creative Arts. http://unlikely.net.au 
Out-of-Sync is a collaboration between 

Re: [-empyre-] subscribers post bios until Wednesday

[Marco Donnarumma]

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

here's Marco, I'm a performer, computational sound artist and writer. I
perform with, and write about, human bodies, sound and machines and the
politics of their relation.

I have been reading the list with great interest for the past two or three
years, chimed in once, if I remember correctly.
Here's a bit about me:


// Research

I'm about to defend my PhD thesis at Goldsmiths, University of London,
under the supervision of Atau Tanaka and Matthew Fuller.

My research focusses on corporeality and computation for sound performance
and body art. With corporeality I refer to the physiological,
phenomenological and cultural basis of embodied practices. I have a
multidimensional approach to research which brings together sound art,
cultural and philosophical studies of the body, and human-computer
interaction.

My thesis proposes the notion of *configuration* as an analytical device
and a blueprint for artistic creation. Configuration defines the
relationship of the human being and technology as one where they affect
each other’s properties through a continuous, situated negotiation. In
musical performance, this involves a performer’s intuition, cognition, and
sensorimotor skills, an instrument’s material, musical and computational
properties, and sound’s vibrational and auditive qualities.
I contend that particular configurations in musical performance reinforce,
alter or disrupt societal criteria against which human bodies and
technologies are assessed.

more in detail: http://marcodonnarumma.com/research/themes/


// Works

My latest performance, CORPUS NIL
, creates a tense
choreographic interchange between a performer and an autonomous machine
using human bioelectrical and bioacoustic signals. 0-INFINITY
 is a monumental architecture
of infrasound vibrations, audible sounds and high-powered lights morphing
in response to biosignals and movement data from the visitors’ bodies. In
OMINOUS  and MUSIC FOR FLESH II
 I play interactive
music by amplifying sounds from my body. The installation NIGREDO
 induces visitors in altered
states of self-perception by feeding sounds from their bodies back to their
skulls and bones. The sculptural object SEPTIC
 physicalises digital viruses in
the body.

I'm now in the process to gather funds and partners for a long-term project
focused on live, physical performance of human beings and autonomous
machines: machines that possess cognitive and sensorimotor skills, embodied
in robots or computational systems.


// Misc

I love to tour, doing it regularly since about 8 years. I'm an open source
/ open hardware advocate.
Have a company base in NYC and Berlin, XTH , Inc.,
making open bioexpressive instruments for creators.
Won a number of awards and grants, all detailed on my website.

hope this was not too long,
wishing you well,
M


--
Marco Donnarumma
Performer, body tinkerer, teacher and writer.
#soundandmusic #biotech #freeculture
EAVI - Goldsmiths, University of London
~
Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com
Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Renate Terese Ferro 
wrote:

> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>
> Hi all,  Just a note that we are keeping the January discussion board open
> until Wednesday.  For those of you who have not posted you current projects
> and bios please feel free to do so.  On Wednesday we will open a new
> discussion up "Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or
> refugee? Moderated by Ana Valdes (UR, SW) and Ricardo
> Dominguez.  Looking forward to that.  Renate
>
> Renate Ferro
> Cornell University
> College of Architecture, Art and Planning
> Department of Art
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