Re: [-empyre-] denied distances - wrapping it up / thanks!
Gabriel, Thanks ever so much for such a fantastic month. I'm so sorry that many travels have kept me quiet this month. I've been following the conversation passionately, especially since the tone of the dialogue so much questions conventional assumptions about the screen and re-places notions of the gaze, projection, and the subject into the more fluid fields of space, reflection, sound, and reverberations. I've been meaning to send along a longer post commenting on how interested I am that so many of this month's posts dialogue indirectly, and certainly unintentionally, with the thesis guiding my recent book, Digital Baroque, that various platforms of new media art and experimental cinematic installation involve a fundamental archeological shift away from authoritative assumptions regarding linear visual projection (from single-point perspective to cartographical points and the reasoned subject) to multivalent spaces, places, and soundings of nonlinear temporal folds intrinsic to the digital form. I look forward to elaborating on this in the coming month. Welcome to the fall from the beautiful shores of Lake Como in Italy. Best, Tim Dear all: The bitniks' last posts put us in a good position to wrap the things up, suggesting how the experience of fleetings image on a screen can be reconnected to the wider range of practices that constitute media circuits - and indeed society. I hope the debate reverberated to everyone as well as it did for me. I'd like to thank all those that contributed, especially the guests, who very kindly accepted the invitation to participate. It was terrific to hear from all of you, whose artistic work and research inspired this discussion in the first place! Thanks as well to Renate, Tim, Christina and Marcus, for giving me the opportunity of this first-run moderation - and apologies for any mistake I may have made in the course! Best regards! Menotti ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Timothy Murray Director, Society for the Humanities http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/ Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu Professor of Comparative Literature and English A. D. White House Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
[-empyre-] Thanks to Menotti/Welcoming Anna Munster on _empyre
Dear _empyre subscribers, We join in thanking Gabriel Menotti for guest moderating this past month's discussion of Denied Distances. We appreciate his generous offer to moderate this past month's discussion and enjoyed the varied posts that related. We will be turning the month October over to Anna Munster who will be moderating a conversation, Networked_Art. Based on a collaborative Turbulence project, Anna will be introducing her roster of guests who will join our over 1250 subscribers to discuss the convergence between networked aesthetics and texts. While Anna will be introducing the guests for the month and posting the first discussion post, I will take this opportunity to introduce Anna's biography. We thank her for taking over from Gabriel. Anna is from Australia where it is already October 1st so we will say good=bye to Gabriel for now and welcome Anna to _empyre soft-skinned space. Biography Anna Munster is a writer, artist and educator in the area of new media arts and theory. In 2006 she published the book Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Dartmouth College Press) and writes for the journals CTheory, Fibreculture, Culture Machine among others on networked culture and art, biomedia and bioart and contemporary art and politics. She helped to found the journal Fibreculture and is actively involved in online list cultures and their on and offline projects and events. She works collaboratively with Michele Barker in the area of immersive and multi-channel audio-visual installation, exploring the relations between visuality, perception and neuroscience. Munster works as an associate professor at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Her current research investigates dynamic media, particularly the relations between the technical aspects of networks and network visualisations on the one hand, and emergent forms of cultural and aesthetic experience on the other. Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Art Cornell University, Tjaden Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: r...@cornell.edu Website: http://www.renateferro.net Co-moderator of _empyre soft skinned space http://www.subtle.net/empyre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre Art Editor, diacritics http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/ ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
