[-empyre-] Fwd: Welcome to week 4 of February 2020 discussion: Politicizing space and time

2020-02-29 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Murat Nemet-Nejat > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to week 4 of February 2020 discussion: > Politicizing space and time > Date: March 1, 2020 at 00:53:13 GMT+4 > To: Dale

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to week 4 of February 2020 discussion: Politicizing space and time

2020-02-29 Thread Dale Hudson
> public space, due not to the more abstract/obvious reasons (excision from the > national narrative--which is of course also the case) but for the more > prosaic fear of simply going outside. > > -Original Message----- > From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.ed

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to week 4 of February 2020 discussion: Politicizing space and time

2020-02-29 Thread Dale Hudson
e abstract/obvious reasons (excision from the > national narrative--which is of course also the case) but for the more > prosaic fear of simply going outside. > > -Original Message- > From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au > <mailto:

Re: [-empyre-] week 4

2020-02-24 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Parisa, for these insights into your experience of these terms and where and when they are used. I’ve also noticed more use of West Asia in activism than in academia, likely for the same reasons. I believe Joumana will have

[-empyre-] Welcome to week 4 of February 2020 discussion: Politicizing space and time

2020-02-23 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks, Afrah and Sama, for nudging us to think about feminist interventions. I’ve invited Joumana Al Jabri, Surabhi Shamra, and Parisa Vaziri to ways that space and time can be politicized through arts practice and scholarship. I’m

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to week 3 of February 2020 discussion: Feminist interventions

2020-02-17 Thread Dale Hudson
okes, puns, breaking into > Hinglish, particular references to local popular culture) will not make sense > to someone who is not familiar with the world it is set in. This is not > intentional but it is also not something that bothers me. To see a joke about > your own world, is

[-empyre-] Welcome to week 3 of February 2020 discussion: Feminist interventions

2020-02-16 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks, Kay and Nat, for nudging us to think differently. This week we continue by thinking about feminist interventions. I’ve invited Sama Alshaibi and Afrah Shafiq to offer discuss how they engage in feminist arts practices in two

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to week 2 of February 2020 discussion: Thinking differently in scholarship and curation

2020-02-11 Thread Dale Hudson
gin forwarded message: > > From: nat muller > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to week 2 of February 2020 discussion: > Thinking differently in scholarship and curation > Date: February 10, 2020 at 12:52:15 GMT+4 > To: Dale Hudson > > Hi all and thanks for the invite

[-empyre-] Welcome to week 2 of February 2020 discussion: Thinking differently in scholarship and curation

2020-02-09 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks, Beth and Sean, for sharing some of your research on ways that artists in KSA and UAE are navigating the limitations of territory. I realized that the numeral dates were aligning with the weekend for many subscribers, so I’m

Re: [-empyre-] (no subject)

2020-02-09 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Beth. These insights from your research are fascinating. I’m looking forward to reading more when the research is published, especially about the use of online platforms to produce a community for discussions that might not

Re: [-empyre-] Response to Dale Post

2020-02-06 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Sean, for the link to your book — and your new article, which I haven’t yer read and now see that I must! I really appreciate ways that Saudi artists work within certain constraints yet also work around others. I’ve also been

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to February 2020 discussion: Why Are We Still Talking about the Middle East?

2020-02-06 Thread Dale Hudson
d and they were as > animals to us.” > I read them Edward Saids book “Orientalism” how the Western created a > fictional Orient as contrast and opposite to us. > I still think our obsession with the Middle East is about narrative how we > define the “Other”. > Ana > > El El ma

[-empyre-] Welcome to week 1 of February 2020 discussion: Circumventing Territorial Limitations

2020-02-04 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Beth, for sharing with us some of your research on ways that Emirati artists circumvent some of the limitations on site by going partly online. Could you share with us some of the themes or types of themes that their work

Re: [-empyre-] Art and Saudi Arabia

2020-02-04 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Sean, for this post. For anyone unfamiliar with Gharam’s practice, his website is https://abdulnassergharem.com . Sean, could you tell us more about how artists like Gharam navigate various state

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to February 2020 discussion: Why Are We Still Talking about the Middle East?

2020-02-04 Thread Dale Hudson
> Ana > > El El dom, 2 de feb. de 2020 a la(s) 04:17, Dale Hudson <mailto:dmh2...@nyu.edu>> escribió: > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Hi all. > > Thanks, Renate for the generous introduction! Despite the different time > zones, I

[-empyre-] Welcome to week 1 of February 2020 discussion: Circumventing Territorial Limitations

2020-02-01 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I am thrilled that Elizabeth (Beth) Derderian and Sean Foley have agreed to help me launch month's discussion on Why Are We Still Talking about the Middle East? They both have done extensive research into ways that artists work around

[-empyre-] Welcome to February 2020 discussion: Why Are We Still Talking about the Middle East?

2020-02-01 Thread Dale Hudson
recently proposed by the United States. Looking forward to hearing your perspectives! Dale Dale Hudson | دايل هدسون New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) MONTH’S THEME: Why Are We Still Talking about the Middle East? This month’s theme confronts

Re: [-empyre-] Thanks to Dale. Open -empyre- for the month of May

2018-05-03 Thread Dale Hudson
, Dale > On May 3, 2018, at 04:46, Renate Terese Ferro <rfe...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Thanks to Dale Hudson and his guests who guided us through the month of April > on new media documentary practice. Thanks to so

Re: [-empyre-] The Shore Line

2018-05-03 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Liz — and congratulations on this wonderful project! I think that reading the “storybook” as a collaborative story of resilience and innovation towards climate justice is a wonderful example of adapting documentary’s concerns for

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-22 Thread Dale Hudson
ed public space. In following the conversation so far this month, >> I’ve seen similar questions posed by others with regard to projects they’ve >> either made or viewed. So, I’d ask: how does the imperative of >> ‘documentary’ structure our negotiations (whether as documenta

Re: [-empyre-] Some further words on my work and Aquarius the Waterman

2018-04-20 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Steve. Great definition of art as never terminating inquiry. I think this aspect is close to what I am thinking about in relation to documentary, which, as others have mentioned this month, is derived from docere (to teach). Patty

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-20 Thread Dale Hudson
rd to projects they’ve either made > or viewed. So, I’d ask: how does the imperative of ‘documentary’ structure > our negotiations (whether as documentarians, filmmakers, artists, critics, > theorists) of questions of specificity v. larger > mechanisms/themes/connections? Is somet

Re: [-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-17 Thread Dale Hudson
sy about Facebook as a "business model" hinges on this difference. > > Ciao, > Murat > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Dale Hudson <dmh2...@nyu.edu > <mailto:dmh2...@nyu.edu>> wrote: > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Hi M

Re: [-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-16 Thread Dale Hudson
one of my own best loved/most hated, 'virtual'. > > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 6:34 PM, Dale Hudson <dmh2...@nyu.edu > <mailto:dmh2...@nyu.edu>> wrote: > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Thanks, Luke and Garrett, for this discuss

Re: [-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-15 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Luke and Garrett, for this discussion. I agree about the shortcomings in reducing operational to optical. If anything, the foregrounding of the operation of coding and transcoding should heighten our awareness of the mechanical

Re: [-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-12 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Garrett, Fédérique, Toby, and Dorit, for these insights into the conception of your projects for FLEFF. One aspect of all three projects, and also Luke’s, that intrigues me is that they allow audiences to experience them in

[-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-09 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks, Patty and Helen, for participating in last week’s discussion. This week’s guests include Dorit Naaman (CA), Luke Munn, (AU/NZ), Garrett Lynch and Frédérique Santune (IE/FR), and Toby Tatum (UK). All have participated in the

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-08 Thread Dale Hudson
iscuss projects that engage such environmentalist concerns. Best, Dale > On Apr 5, 2018, at 19:48, C. Saper <csa...@umbc.edu> wrote: > > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Thank you Patricia Zimmerman and Dale Hudson. I wonder if you might elaborate >

[-empyre-] Welcome to the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-02 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to the April 2018 discussion: new media documentary practice, moderated by Dale Hudson (AE/US). I hope that the discussion opens expectations about documentary to modes that use digital technologies to help us reengage

[-empyre-] Welcome to the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

2018-04-02 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to the April 2018 discussion: new media documentary practice, moderated by Dale Hudson (AE/US). I hope that the discussion opens expectations about documentary to modes that use digital technologies to help us reengage

Re: [-empyre-] closing down the November discussion on -empyre

2015-12-01 Thread Dale Hudson
:04, Renate Terese Ferro <rfe...@cornell.edu> wrote: > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > On behalf of -empyre we would like to thank Dale Hudson and Patty > Zimmermann and their monthly guests for participating in the month's > discussion highlighting gl

Re: [-empyre-] week four | engagement with place/from Helen

2015-12-01 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Helen, Babak, and Chris for sharing these thoughts. Helen, your description of the projects that we’ve been discussing this month as "hacks into the system” and “creative and radical bursts” is wonderful. I think that for Patty

Re: [-empyre-] week three | locative scraping and counter-surveillance

2015-11-30 Thread Dale Hudson
-------- > Michael Takeo Magruder > www.takeo.org > --- > > -Original Message- > From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au > [mailto:empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Dale Hu

[-empyre-] week four | engagement with place

2015-11-25 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Welcome to our final week of Transnational Environments and Locative places. This week we continue our overlapping discussions with a focus on engaging place, suggesting ways that we might engage micro-politics to locate and claim places

Re: [-empyre-] week three | locative scraping and counter-surveillance

2015-11-24 Thread Dale Hudson
been rallying for increased surveillance in the United States since the Paris (and Beirut and Bamoko) attacks? Best, Dale On Nov 20, 2015, at 5:44, Robert Spahr <r...@robertspahr.com> wrote: > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 23:40:07

Re: [-empyre-] week three | locative scraping and counter-surveillance

2015-11-24 Thread Dale Hudson
DF version of the book is available to download here: > > http://www.takeo.org/projects/remediations/ > > --- > Michael Takeo Magruder > www.takeo.org > --- > > -Original Message- > From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.un

Re: [-empyre-] week two | transnational collaboration research/practice

2015-11-21 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Leila and Cary, for this overview of IH+. I’m looking forward to your forthcoming article in Leonardo! I think that IH+’s challenge to the “default mode” is precisely what Patty and I found so productive about the various

Re: [-empyre-] week two | transnational collaboration research/practice

2015-11-18 Thread Dale Hudson
broken down into 3 parts so the workers > only get a fragment. And since they are working via mTurk, they are not > specifically sex workers. These aspects of the project leave a very > interesting space for thinking about how interpretation can happen through > anonymous collabo

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 131, Issue 7

2015-11-13 Thread Dale Hudson
ent movement in South Africa perhaps opens up our discussion > of mobile apps and environmental performances towards a move transnational > consideration. > > Patty > > Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D. > Professor of Screen Studies > Roy H. Park School of Communication &g

[-empyre-] week two | transnational collaboration research/practice

2015-11-11 Thread Dale Hudson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--10–16 November 2015: 
TRANSNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH/PRACTICE We continue the discussion of potentials and limitations of thinking through digital media into the area of transnational collaboration in research/practice with a few

Re: [-empyre-] week one | mobile apps and environmental performance

2015-11-10 Thread Dale Hudson
953 Danby Road > Ithaca, New York 14850 USA > > http://faculty.ithaca.edu:83/patty/ > http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff > > > ____ > From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au > <empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on be