Welcome to Sarah Drury and Hana Iverson who have been discussing the socially inscribed networked body in relation to their own work. We invite them to consider this month's theme: "Participatory Art: New Media and the Archival Trace." This notion of Participatory Art has resonances from the writings of Nicholas Bourriaud and Claire Bishop. While Hana and Sarah discuss their own ideas about the topic we will be interspersing other posts from other artists, curators, and writers who also were thinking about these issues in relationship to their own work.
We also want to encourage all of our empyre subscribers (close to 1250) who have been lurking during the past month to PARTICIPATE. So welcome Hana and Sarah! Featured Guests: Week 1: Hana Iverson (US) and Sarah Drury (US) Hana Iversons work spans photography, video, installation, and interactive media. Her current work focuses on location-based installations that integrates mobile interfaces. Iverson currently teaches at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and is the founder and director of the Neighborhood Narratives Project, an internationally networked, community-based learning environment where students investigate the complex means by which cell phones, GPS, mobile recording devices, interactive public installation and social network games affect their knowledge of and relation to lived space http://www.neighborhoodnarratives.net. She is the former Director of the New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration at Temple University. Sarah Drury is a media artist working with video, interactive installation and performative media. Her work has been presented at international venues, including: BAM¹s Next Wave Festival, National Theater of Belgrade, and Boston CyberArts Festival, Brooklyn Museum, the Kitchen, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Sound Cultures Symposium, Performative Sites, ACM Multimedia, Artists Space, Hallwalls, Worldwide Video Festival (Hague), and on PBS. Grants include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and grants from the Leeway Foundation, and Franklin Furnace. Drury¹s work with sensing technologies engages body, sound and image in complex multisensory narratives, in diverse contexts such as installation, opera and performance. Recent projects explore issues of embodiment, collaborative creation and emergent narrative. Sarah Drury is an associate professor of video and interactive media at the Temple University Film & Media Arts Program. She holds masters degrees from the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program and NYU/International Center of Photography. She has also been on the faculty of the New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU Art & Media Program and the International Center of Photography. > > Renate Ferro and Tim Murray > Moderators, empyre soft skinned space "soft_skinned_space" <emp...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au> > > 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 > 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
