Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to our June topic on -empyre: Plant Art and New Media

2015-06-05 Thread Selmin Kara
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you for the post, Yi; it's wonderful to hear more about your project! I didn't intend to insist on "the idea of human perception as a reference point for defining and categorizing nature" in my questioning. I was only trying to respond

[-empyre-] June on empyre now open for discussion!

2015-06-05 Thread jsa
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Happy June, everyone! Thanks for starting off the discussion. My apologies for joining later in the week. I am an interdisciplinary artist who works with community stories, interactive installations and soundscapes. My ongoing project, "

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to our June topic on -empyre: Plant Art and New Media

2015-06-05 Thread Patrick Keilty
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks Yi! This is a great project, and I admire your shift "back onto the intrinsic ecological functions and relationships of an ecosystem as a whole." I guess what I was trying to ask is whether our turn to the nonhuman actually dislocates

[-empyre-] Welcome to our June topic on -empyre: Plant Art and New Media

2015-06-05 Thread Yi Zhou
--empyre- soft-skinned spaceempyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Patrick, Natasha, and Selmin for such thoughtful questions to introduce this fascinating new field! Murat - you were reading my mind! I agree that it's curious that the discu

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to our June topic on -empyre: Plant Art and New Media

2015-06-05 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--"I am interested in the sound connection too. I wonder if there is a discourse of sensitivity in the attempts to make us more perceptive to the vitality of plants through sound, vibration, and movement. In films like *Upstream Colour*, a par