The online community of -empyre soft-skinned space bids adieu to our collaborator, Christina McPhee, who has decided to step aside from moderating -empyre- after years of tireless service.
Christina has been a moderator of -empyre- since its earliest years (the list was instigated in 2002 by Melinda Rackham). Succeeding Melinda, Christina served tirelessly as the managing moderator of -empyre- for many years until spring 2008, when she passed the baton to Tim and Renate. During that time, Christina helped to spearhead the three moderated conversations in 2006 and 2007 that were featured as part of the documenta 12 Magazine Project. The list discussions<https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-March>: Is Modernity our Antiquity?; <https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-July>Bare Life; and What is to be done (education)? were produced and edited by Christina. Last spring, 2009, she was responsible for arranging the three -empyre- scholarships to the Anderson Art Ranch in Colorado. She has been one of the corner stones of our listserv and we will miss her moderating energies, creative ideas, and dedication to -empyre-. While we look forward to receiving her lively posts as a subscriber, we wish to take time out today to thank her for her loyalty, her energy, her creative inspiration, and her dedication to the moderator team. We will announce February's topic later in the day, but for now want to pause to extend our thanks and best wishes to Christina. Christina McPhee: Biography Christina McPhee (central coast California/San Francisco) is a media and visual artist. Her work is involved with the poetics of post-digital abstraction and environmental crisis. She works in drawing, photomontage and video. Recent video installations and screenings in 2009 include VIBA Buenos Aires (November), Cinema by the Bay, San Francisco (October), Chapman College/Guggenheim Gallery Los Angeles (for "Because the Night") (October); ISEA, Belfast (July)'; Pace Digital Gallery, New York (April); and Videoformes 09, Clermont-Ferrand (March) . Drawings and photomontage from "Tesserae of Venus', considering the future of carbon atmospheres on Earth, showed at Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (October-December 2009) and were featured at the NADA fair/ Art Miami with Silverman Gallery. New critical writing about her film work appears with Sharon Lyn Tay's new book, "Women on the Edge : Twelve Political Film Practices" New York: Macmillan and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 . BOMB Magazine has published a new interview by Melissa Potter with Christina McPhee online at<http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=5307>http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=5307 <http://us.macmillan.com/womenontheedgetwelvepoliticalfilmpractices>http://us.macmillan.com/womenontheedgetwelvepoliticalfilmpractices <http://silverman-gallery.com/exhibition/view/1770>http://silverman-gallery.com/exhibition/view/1770 <http://christinamcphee.net>http://christinamcphee.net <http://naxsmash.net>http://naxsmash.net <http://www.vimeo.com/christinamcphee>http://www.vimeo.com/christinamcphee -- Renate Ferro and Tim Murray Managing Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art Cornell University _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
