Many thanks to Zach, Daniel and David for being our guests this week on empyre. I'm am hoping that they will continue to participate throughout the rest of the month as their schedules permit. As the discussion threads continue on grids and viruses I'd like to introduce Art Jones, Ricardo Dominguez, and Brooke Singer as our guests this week. They are great friends and have all visited us in Upstate New York here at Cornell. I have attach their biographies below and look forward hearing about their recent work.
Art Jones is an image/sound manipulator working with film, digital video, and hybrid media. His films/videos, CD-ROMs, live audio/videomixes and installations often concern the inter-relationships between popular music, visual culture, history, and power. As a VJ he has performed with a variety of musicians and artists, including Soundlab, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, DJ T-Ina, Amiri Baraka, Femmes with Fatal Breaks, and Alec Empire and Phillip Virus. He has completed a trilogy of music videos and a CD-ROM, and continues to perform at various locations in Chicago and New York. He is from the Bronx and lives and works in and between Chicago and New York. Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is a co-Director of Thing (http://post.thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha Cardenas and Amy Sara Carroll the *Transborder Immigrant Tool* (http://bang.calit2.net/xborder ) - (a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border was the winner of "Transnational Communities Award", this award was funded by *Cultural Contact*, Endowment for Culture Mexico - U.S. and handed out by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico), also funded by CALIT2 and two Transborder Awards from the UCSD Center for the Humanities. Ricardo is an Associate Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 (http://bang.calit2.net). He also co-founder of *particle group* with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll (http://pitmm.net). *particle group* has a new project archive entitled "nanosfÉRICA" at (http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/particle-group-intro) and you can also find a video meditation by EDT and *particle group" entitled, "(nano_Garage(s): Speculations about (Open Fabbing)" here: http://medialabprado.es/article/nanogarajes_especulaciones_sobre_fabbing_abierto Brooke Singer is a media artist who lives in New York City. Her work blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts practices. She works across media to provide entry into important social issues that are often characterized as specialized to a general public. She has exhibited at the Warhol Museum of Art, The Banff Centre, Neuberger Museum of Art,Diverseworks, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival, Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival, The Whitney Artport, among others. Recent awards and commissions include a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist award, a Headlands Center for Arts residency, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) award, a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship and an Eyebeam and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Social Sculpture commission. She is currently Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media. 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
