[-empyre-] Week 3 on empyre: Welcome Anne Balsamo

2015-02-16 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Throughout these past two weeks of our discussion on New Tools and Technologies in 2015, Jason, Ben, Murat myself, and others have touched upon the cross-disciplinary influences of humanities and culture. I am pleased to introduce into our

Re: [-empyre-] old media cycles to new: Signal Culture and Jason Bernagozzi

2015-02-11 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Jason and Ben, Ben you wrote: Ben you wrote: ³ For me, the really interesting place is at the intersection of the two where my intentions and cultural values mix with the assumptions of the tools and contrast with the dominant

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on -empyre: AR Tools and other stuff

2015-02-09 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Tracey for explaining more about ³Fauxonomy.² I find that sometimes the most simplistic tools and technologies are the ones that are most useful in dealing with the complex conceptual mechanisms that are at play in every work. You

[-empyre-] one last day of February

2015-02-28 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- In Ithaca it remains a very cold and blustery day but still February 28th so we will keep this February discussion going for about twelve more hours and introduce the March discussion. Hope you will all respond to Helen, Randall, Melinda

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3 on empyre: Thinking and Tinkering

2015-02-22 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
women had possibilities to study and work. The Sharia laws were not applicable and both Christian and Moslem communities lived side by side, such different than today's sectarism. Ana El feb 17, 2015 10:52 AM, Renate Terese Ferro rfe...@cornell.edu escribió: ... A few years ago at Harvestwork in New

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3 on empyre: Thinking and Tinkering

2015-02-23 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Helen. Hope Stefi will consider sharing her work on empyre at some point soon. Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art,Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email:

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3:Welcome back Melinda Rackham.

2015-02-26 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
Frost probably knows about that if she is reading..? Also I wanted to say something about generalism, but it fell out of the conversational flow. maybe tomorrow Melinda On 26 Feb 2015, at 10:03 am, Renate Terese Ferro rfe...@cornell.edu wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space

Re: [-empyre-] on feminism and the cyclical nature of tools and technologies

2015-02-26 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
this is feasible because I use GNU/Linux and not stuck on the continuous upgrade train Microsoft and Apple depend on. Ben On 15-02-25 01:41 PM, Renate Terese Ferro wrote: Our current moderating team has discussed the possibility of transitioning -empyre- over to a blog based site. We have collectively

[-empyre-] Thank you Soraya and New Media/Art/Representation

2015-05-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Soraya and guests, On behalf of -empyre-soft-skinned space, I would like to thank you for your valuable contribution to our -empyre- discussions this past April. ³Digital Media and the Interstices of Identity² gave us all a chance to

Re: [-empyre-] All call: subscribers interested in Boredom: Labor, Use and Time

2015-05-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Anyone out there interested in being a guest for our upcoming discussion on BOREDOM. PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP FOR MORE DETAILS. Renate ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au

[-empyre-] Welcome to May: Boredom: Labor, Use and Time

2015-05-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to May 2015 on ­empyre soft-skinned space: Boredom: Labor, Use, and Time Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) with invited discussants May 4 to 10th Week 1: John Stadler (US) and Ben Bogart (CA) May 11 to 17th Week 2: Emilie St.Hilaire

[-empyre-] All call: subscribers interested in Boredom

2015-05-02 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space--WE HAVE OPENINGS FOR WEEKS 2, 3, AND 4. WE WILL BEGIN THIS Monday. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING A GUEST EMAIL RENATE rfe...@cornell.edu Boredom: Labor, use, and time. Open Call for the month of May on ­empyre soft-skinned space An

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to May: Boredom: Labor, Use and Time

2015-05-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- John you wrote: In my work, I am currently pursuing the question of boredom from the vantage point of pornography. I became interested in this topic initially after reading Ralph Blumenthal¹s curious New York Times article ³Porno Chic²

[-empyre-] Technology and Boredom and what about literature?

2015-05-11 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Lyn, Emilie, Ben and John, Thanks so much for sharing your work with us. It¹s been interesting thus far to see somewhat of a divide in terms of the way that boredom is theorized. Emilie and Ben, you have theoretically distinguished

[-empyre-] Welcome to Week 3 on -empyre: Welcome Ana and Simon and a few thoughts on boredom

2015-05-16 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I am really honored to introduce our next two guests, long-time participants on -empyre. Ana Valdés (UR) was a participant on the -empyre list serve in the very early days I recall her telling me just this past February! A long-time member

[-empyre-] Closing out Week 2 on -empyre

2015-05-16 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks to Emilie St.Hilaire and Lyn Goeringer for being our guests this week. What an interesting and complex week of discussion from mind-wandering and day-dreaming to meditation and mindfulness. Thanks to Ben Bogart, Murat

[-empyre-] Week 2: in response to Ana the Simons

2015-05-19 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Ana Simon and Simon Taylor, I have been in the midst of end of the semester grading so please forgive me for my silence this past day and a half. Certainly busy but not bored It¹s interesting that the research done by Thomas Goetz

Re: [-empyre-] Wounds and scars.

2015-06-07 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Jo, I am intrigued by your work and the theoretical and cultural richness that supports it. I have had a bit of experience with conductive thread but find so many artists use it in very traditional ways for constructing and adorning

[-empyre-] -empyre in July--looking for a moderator

2015-05-31 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear empyre subscribers. The month of July is open on -empyre soft-skinned space. Just pull together a brief synopsis of the topic for discussion with a list of potential guests you want to invite to join you. Do you have a new

[-empyre-] closing down our May topic and July is open!

2015-05-31 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks again to all of our guests this month: John Stadler, Ben Bogart, Emilie St. Hilaire, Lyn Georinger, Ana Valdes, Simon Biggs, Erin Obodiac, Jason Bernagozzi, as well as Murat Germen who joined in. Tomorrow we will welcoming a new

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

2015-06-01 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome Natasha Myers and thank you for joining our -empyre moderating team members Selmin Kara, and Patrick Keilty for the June discussion on -empyre soft-skinned space,Plant Art and New Media². This cross-disciplinary topic will bring

[-empyre-] new media practice, simultaneity and boredom

2015-05-30 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Erin and Jason thanks so much for posting this week. The Heidegger recaps were incredibly helpful to me Erin. I¹ve been thinking about my own artistic production in light of how the idea for this month¹s topic began with a lecture that

Re: [-empyre-] Thank you! Plant Art and New Media

2015-07-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks to Patrick, Natasha, and Selmin for taking over the helm for the July discussion and thanks to all of your guests for dedicating this past month to plants. So many great issues were raised and for me most definitively it will be

[-empyre-] WELCOME TO JULY ON EMPYRE: Ileana Selejan and Calin Man

2015-07-07 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear -empyreans, Welcome to July. We are getting started just a bit later in July because of travels and the US holiday. We hope all is well with you. We are thrilled to introduce Ileana Selejan (RO/US) and Calin Man (RO) who will be

[-empyre-] resonances to -empyre traditions: research and practice

2015-11-11 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Dale and Patty and guests, Tim and I join our international assemblage of -empyre participants in thanking you for curating this engaging discussion on our list-serv. The interdependence between practice and research have been a

[-empyre-] Thank you to Patrick Keilty

2015-11-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear -empyreans, First we would like to thank our neighbor from the University of Toronto, Patrick Keilty for organizing and hosting our October discussion on -empyre, Designing Compulsion. Patrick has been serving on our moderating team

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the November discussion on -emppyre

2015-11-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to our November discussion on -empyre soft-skinned space, Transnational Environments and Locative Places. The discussion will be moderated by long-time -empyre friends Patricia R. Zimmermann (United States), and Dale Hudson

[-empyre-] apologies to all for the inadvertent post

2015-10-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi all, Apologies to all. Inadvertently this post for a tenure track job got through our moderation site. Just a reminder to all we do not post any announcements for academic positions, exhibitions, or any other information that is off

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

2015-11-30 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--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 global issues in new media practices. It has been especially appreciated

[-empyre-] BOOKSHELF: Renate Ferro

2016-06-08 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Bookshelf: Renate Ferro Summer for me in upstate New York is all about catching up with everything two semesters of teaching has side-tracked me from. While Tim and I try to spend some down time on Lake Cayuga, in my studio I am in

[-empyre-] Bookshelf: READ ME

2016-06-09 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Susan and Ana, Susan thanks for reminding me about Lucy Lippard’s book Wildride. I want to grab a copy soon and read it again. And Ana 7000 titles and a cat is quite something. Tim and I have never counted our joint collection

[-empyre-] LAST WEEK: OPEN CALL TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS: What’s on your bookshelf?

2016-06-20 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Renate Terese Ferro" <empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of rfe...@cornell.edu> wrote: >--empyre- soft-skinned space-- >Welcome to June, 2016 on –empyre- soft-skinned space

[-empyre-] Welcoming Ana Valdes and Ricardo Domingues

2016-02-06 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello empyreans, Many thanks to those of you who posted your recent biographies and current work. It is always wonderful to hear from those of you who both participate regularly and also lurk. We encourage lurkers to join in a bit

[-empyre-] -empyre logistics--a review for old and new subscribers

2016-02-07 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- This email is to review some of the logistics and operations of how -empyre works. Apologies to Ana and Ricardo for posting this mid-stream but we are getting many emails back-channel about -empyre so I wanted to post this information

[-empyre-] Introducing Christina McPhee

2016-02-08 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear all, I have been enjoying the robust discussion thus far. So happy that so many of you are sharing your experiences and expertise. Joining us over the next week will be our long time friend Christina MsPhee. Welcome back

[-empyre-] more from the early days of empyre....

2016-01-31 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Tamiko for posting. Just wanted to add on bit of history. When Melinda Packham first launched -empyre soft-skin space many of the first posts were introductions of each of the subscribers. Though -empyre has grown to close to

[-empyre-] empyre last call: post your bio and projects

2016-01-31 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello all, On the 1st of January we opened the empyre discussion board up to invite all of our subscribers to post their recent bio’s and project updates. It has been great to hear from many of you. Today is the last day to make those

[-empyre-] reminder to empire: post your new projects for 2016

2016-01-22 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Just a reminder that we will be posting our subscribers biographies and upcoming projects and updates until the end of January. So amazing to hear from those of you thus far who have shared their new and upcoming work. Happy New Year

[-empyre-] writing from Buffalo: Coalesce Lab

2016-03-24 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Nicole wrote I should add that WFiM is named after an exhibition that I organized in 2011, which looked at artist cookbooks and recipes and featured works by Tattfoo Tan, Robin Kahn, Counter Kitchen, Isabelle Lumpkin, Leah Rosenberg, Joy

Re: [-empyre-] writing from Buffalo: Coalesce Lab / BioArt and Food

2016-03-24 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Amanda McDonald Crowley" <empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of amandam...@gmail.com> wrote: >--empyre- soft-skinned space-- >Hi Renate and all, > >On Mar 24, 2016, at 9:13 A

Re: [-empyre-] future scenario workshops and the imagination

2016-03-25 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Shu Lea, Amanda, and all, Shu Lea wrote: WE CONTROL THE FOOD. WE CONTROL YOU. SERVICE STATIONS are set up to pipeline STANDARD meals- EAT. MEAT. VEGG. FISH. This is the year 2030 . No one SERVES. The government supplies ROBOT

[-empyre-] following up from Leila's post

2016-03-25 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- This message was sent yesterday but got scrambled in the mod site for some reason. I have reposted it below in hopes it will go through this time. Yes Leila I did. In fact It appears that most of our guests this month deal with food

[-empyre-] Week 1: ART/TECH/FOOD with Amanda McDonald Crowley

2016-03-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to my fellow moderator Amanda McDonald Crowley who has generously agreed to share her expertise on three of our mutually agreed upon interests: Art, Technology, and Food. In looking through our -empyre archives I can not find

[-empyre-] March 2016: FOOD/TECH/ART

2016-03-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to March 2016 on –empyre soft-skinned space: FOOD/TECH/ART Moderated by Amanda McDonald Crowley (Au, US) and Renate Ferro (US) with invited discussants March 3rd Week 1: Stefani Bardin (US), Marina Zurkow (US), Hernani Dias (ESP)

Re: [-empyre-] March 2016: FOOD/TECH/ART

2016-03-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Amanda, Thanks so much for agreeing to be our guest moderator this month. I am excited to share a new project with our subscribers that I am about to launch that is definitely food centric but networks into culture and politics.

[-empyre-] living off the land in upstate New York

2016-03-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Stefani Bardin wrote: "For many New Yorkers our relationship to food is filtered through the lens of restaurants, grocery stores, bodegas, street food carts and trucks. As Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City

[-empyre-] closing down our February discussion

2016-03-02 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- How can it possibly be March 2nd already? We have had such a robust discussion this February: Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee? Many thanks to moderators Ana Valdes and Ricardo Dominguez with special

Re: [-empyre-] Mapping Food trails ...

2016-03-07 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Amanda, Wish I was a bit closer to New York so I could have attended some of the Fairs and other events going on this past weekend. Thanks for sharing these mapping projects. As I was reading Stefani’s post and looking at the

[-empyre-] to end the month: The Rum Cake Brigade

2016-03-31 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Renate wrote: Ironically my art studio looks out onto my garden Stefani and I have often wondered just why I do not spend more time thinking about the relationship between food and art. Amanda wrote: But I am also struck by how many

[-empyre-] lurking intently

2016-04-22 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello all, I have been lurking intently and appreciate the links and the back and forth posts between you all. Thank you Alessandra for orchestrating this incredibly important and interesting topic. I just wanted to thank Johannes

[-empyre-] -empyre at ISEA today 11:00 AM

2016-05-19 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Just a quick email with apologies to Kyle for the interruption. For those of you at ISEA Hong Kong 2016 I will be presenting a special presentation about -empyre soft-skinned space in Room 2 on FLOOR 6F Future Cinema (M6094)at CMC at

[-empyre-] -empyre-soft-skinned space at ISEA HONG KONG 2016

2016-05-01 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- We are excited to announce that -empyre-soft-skinned space will manifest itself in physical space for the upcoming ISEA Hong Kong Conference http://isea2016.isea-international.org/ -empyre- will be featured in a panel discussion but

[-empyre-] Welcome Kyle McKinley

2016-05-01 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- A warm welcome to Kyle Lane-McKinley who will hosting our next discussion topic on -empyre-, Social Practice and Social Reproduction: the politics of participatory art. I heard Kyle speak just this past February on a panel at the

[-empyre-] Knots and nest

2017-02-23 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks William I will follow through with the word search and may contact our local Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Thanks for the link to the article as well. Renate William Bain wrote: Thank *you* for sharing. On Nietzsche: I seem to

[-empyre-] test

2017-02-21 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Just testing our server and system. sorry Renate Ferro Visiting Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Art Tjaden Hall 306 rfe...@cornell.edu ___ empyre forum

[-empyre-] for William

2017-02-21 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks for this post William. I am wondering if you might not give me the citation for the Nietzsche quote about the birds and nests. I am doing research on a project “Eye Spy a Storm” in Augmented Reality and the citation is just what

[-empyre-] Week 3: Thanks to Kathy and Lindsay and Welcome Soyu, Paul and Yiyun

2017-02-21 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I have been trying to sort through some glitches in our system but am going to plod on in hopes you are getting our posts. Just a reminder that you can check on what has been posted by going to our main archived space here

[-empyre-] Biology, Art and Life to begin: a nod to Beatriz

2017-02-12 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- It was in February, 2013 http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2013-February/date.html that -empyre hosted a topic related to biology, art and life. During that month we dedicated a month long tribute to the life and work

[-empyre-] Welcome to our new -empyre topic: Between Biology and Art

2017-02-10 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to February 2017 on –empyre soft-skinned space Between Biology and Art Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) with invited discussants Introduction: Byron Rich (US) Week 2: February 13 Lindsay Kelley (AU), Kathy High (US) Week

[-empyre-] Introduction: Between Biology and Art Welcome Byron Rich

2017-02-10 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- We will begin our Introductory posts for the topic Between Biology and Art this weekend joined by Byron Rich. Byron and I will be setting the foundation for our discussion over the next three and a half weeks. These generative

[-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2: Kathy High and Lindsay Kelley

2017-02-14 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear empyreans, Thanks to Byron for starting the first few days off. I am hoping he will stay on at least for a couple of more days to make the transition toWeek 2 but I want to thank him now for being such a sport. I am so happy to

[-empyre-] Humor/Irony

2017-02-12 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
ems with the complexity of the transformation in that there are >two plasmids in play, one for reporting and one for detecting. It’s still a >bit beyond me, but should be doable. > >Perhaps that is enough of a first post? Please forgive any grammatical or >

Re: [-empyre-] net art and finance

2016-09-26 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Anna in 2015 at the College Art Association there were two Media Lounge Panels on Economics/ Finance. The panels, Identity, Configurations of Outsiders in Economic Order and Explorations of Alternative Economies brought together as I

[-empyre-] Thank you Murat

2016-12-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Murat for agreeing to organize and moderate this past month @empyre soft-skinned space. It was wonderful to hear new voices as well as a few of our familiar subscribers over the past month. Just a reminder to all that the

[-empyre-] all call: would you like to be a guest moderator in 2017?

2017-01-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi all, We are hoping you have had a wonderful holiday and New Year. -empyre- soft-skinned space has been a vibrant listserv founded by Melinda Rackham in 2002. -empyre- has traced the history and theory of emerging topics in

Re: [-empyre-] WH vs sanctuary cities

2017-03-27 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Frédéric for writing in. Wars: military, social, psychological, wars between families, technological war. will you moderate ? Tomorrow I am teaching my students a bit about Augmented Reality. What about a war in virtual

[-empyre-] Fourth Industrial Revolution and DIY

2017-03-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to -empyre- Soyo. Wonderful to hear you were one of Kathy’s students at nearby Troy, NY. Your account of moving to Seoul and setting up a DIY lab in your kitchen in the middle of Seoul is an absolutely incredible story. I can

[-empyre-] The Global Trump Effect: Culture, Arts, Humanities and More at Risk Week 1: March 6

2017-03-06 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to March 2017 on –empyre soft-skinned space Moderated by Alan Sondheim (US) and Renate Ferro (US) Open Call to our subscribers. The Global Trump Effect: Culture, Arts,Humanities and More at Risk Week 1: March 6 Week 2: March 13

[-empyre-] Welcome to Alan Sondheim

2017-03-06 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
...@cornell.edu On 3/6/17, 9:22 PM, "Renate Terese Ferro" <rfe...@cornell.edu> wrote: >Welcome to March 2017 on –empyre soft-skinned space >Moderated by Alan Sondheim (US) and Renate Ferro (US) > >Open Call to our subscribers. >The Global Trump Effect: Culture, A

[-empyre-] ONWARD!

2017-03-06 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Quoting Margherita and Kathy “What are the implications of such radical Otherness at an ethical, political, and aesthetic level?² Questions that remain unanswered but to be pursued for sure… What a great way to end. This month has

[-empyre-] Conceptual medium, visceral materiality, aesthetic formality

2017-03-02 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Margherita, Soyo, Antoinette and Tarsh, What amazing posts you have made. My mission is to address each and every one of you during this last week on empyre I am hoping as we tease out a few more issues that might be percolating

[-empyre-] taking a break to reorganize: See you in September

2017-07-18 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello empyreans, Here is hoping that you are having a great summer if you are on this side of the world or a productive winter if you are in Australia or South Africa. We are busy here reorganizing the structure of -empyre- and

[-empyre-] Fake News, Propaganda, cinema, and more

2017-06-29 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Ana thanks for your post. I always appreciate your writing as it provides us all with a sense of the practicality of political injustices and prison sentences. Fake News is propaganda as I wrote in my first introductory post at the

Re: [-empyre-] Week 4: Welcome Lindsay Kelley, Anna Munster, Randall Packer, and Ana Valdex

2017-06-27 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
rent of disinformation emanating from all > corners of the government. I don’t take this responsibility lightly as an > empyre reporter, and will be posting my first dispatch later in the day. > >Best, > >Randall from the underground studio bunker in Wa

[-empyre-] May, 2017: Welcome Margaret Rhee__Robot Poetics, Ephemera, and Other Concerns

2017-05-01 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- It is with the greatest of pleasure that I introduce new media artist/poet Margaret Rhee to the -empyre- listserv. Margaret has agreed to shepherd the May discussion on empyre and I could not be more excited. Her book, Radio Heart or

[-empyre-] Week 3: Science, Technology, Art and Fakeness

2017-06-19 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Many thanks to Talan Memmott and Mark Marino for being our guests during Week 2. This week on -empye- I am thrilled to introduce Kevin Hamilton. Kevin has been a guest moderator and participant for a number of years. As well as being

[-empyre-] Humor

2017-06-21 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Kevin and fellow empyreans Thanks Kevin for mentioning the panel at College Art Association on BioArt. Fake or constructed images are a huge part of many artists who work between the areas of Science, Technology, and Art. You

Re: [-empyre-] Week 3: Science, Technology, Art and Fakeness

2017-06-25 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
74023eb9c376 >Watch “Blued Trees”: https://vimeo.com/135290635 >www.ghostnets.com <http://www.ghostnets.com/> >www.gulftogulf.org > > > >On 6/19/17, 11:37 AM, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of >Renate Terese Ferro" <empyre-boun

[-empyre-] Thank you Margaret Rhee

2017-06-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- From Mark Marino These machine dreams, not quite nightmares, but haunting impressions. It is not a raceless, egalitarian utopia. Nor is it a Platonic ideal on some frictionless, unblemished grid. It is broken, glitchy, it is pimpled,

[-empyre-] for June: Fake News in a Global Climate

2017-06-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello all, A bit later today Tim Murray and I will be introducing our June topic: Fake News in a Global Climate. If any of our subscribers are interested in being a weekly guest please let me know backchannel. We will post the

[-empyre-] Warhol legacy-- How Real is Real?

2017-06-06 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear all, Thanks Anna and Lindsay for telling us a bit about your upcoming event at the University of New South Wales on Friday. I wish we were a bit closer so we could attend but for now will rely on your reportage. Really looking

Re: [-empyre-] Speaking of Fake...

2017-06-11 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Mark, What I think is so interesting is the fact that in order to write fake news you have to be able to discern between what is truth and what is not. It’s a matter of framing and contextualizing. Can you talk about the

[-empyre-] Critical Questioning in relationship to Ant Farm

2017-06-14 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- In response to Tim— Thanks Tim for posting the link to the Ant Farm intervention. I always love going back to look at these old tapes from Ant Farm. Such a physical stunt with such conceptually and politically charged content. In

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to June on -empyre: Fake News in a Global Climate

2017-06-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
ehalf of Renate Terese Ferro" <empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of rfe...@cornell.edu> wrote: >--empyre- soft-skinned space-- > >Welcome to June 2017 on –empyre- soft-skinned space >Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) an

[-empyre-] Welcome to Week 1: an overview

2017-06-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to Week 1 of our discussion on Fake News in a Global Climate. Tim Murray and I will be hosting this week on -empyre. We are pleased to welcome Lindsay Kelley whose week was featured in this year’s topic in February during our

[-empyre-] all call: October on -empyre-Radical Aesthetics of Multispecies Worlding

2017-09-22 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Any subscribers interested in being featured as a weekly guest should contact me back channel. I will forward your name to our October moderator Margaretha Haughwout. Margaretha is organizing the monthly topic tentatively entitled,

[-empyre-] launching a new -empyre

2017-08-30 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear -empyre-subscribers, As we are assimilating our new Editorial Board for -empyre and re-organizing the website we would like to announce that the roll out will be delayed until well into October. We hope you have had a restful

Re: [-empyre-] Has mediated natures changed your ideas of what communication is?

2017-10-11 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Mararetha for these questions that have been looming in the back of my mind as well. I am traveling but have been captivated by the thoughtful responses and thrilled that our subscribers Norie and Melinda chimed in last week

[-empyre-] wrapping up Week 1

2017-11-12 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Before I introduce week two I thought I would update our bibliography and artist’s list. See below and feel free to update. A huge thank you to Catherine and Marissa (and Ellie for chiming in). To recap this past week, I would like to

[-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on Contamination

2017-11-12 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I would like to welcome Bishnu Ghosh, Christina McPhee, and Tim Murray to Week two of our discussion. All of these guests our friends our subscribers all know from past years of participation on –empyre- and in their research and

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on Contamination

2017-11-14 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi Renate, Christina, Tim, and others in the contamination conversation, Last week brought up some really key ideas around contamination and boundaries that it assumes between organic units or states. My research is on epidemic media,

[-empyre-] oozing

2017-11-28 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Crazy day, exhausted from the hurdles that the end of the semester teaching brings but thoughts about our effuvian age, hosts and viruses, and mushrooms are making me happy to read such incredibly thoughtful and creative. poetic

[-empyre-] On Contamination: Brooke Singer and Joan Linder

2017-11-25 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear –empyreans-, In light of our discussion this month on contamination, I wanted to mention the work of our fellow –empyre- subscriber Brooke Singer. Brooke, an artist in New York City, has been photographing Superfund Sites since

[-empyre-] Welcome to Week 4 on Contamination: Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez and Melinda Rackham

2017-11-26 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello –empyre- subscribers and our guests, Thanks to Rahul Mukherjee and Andrea Haenggi for sharing their research and thoughts during our discussion on Contamination. If either of you have time please feel free to continue through

[-empyre-] Happy Thanksgiving.

2017-11-24 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Rahul thanks for reminding me of Julianne Moore’s character in Safe. The fact that contamination can be relational while causing symptoms some times and not at others is one reason that it is not recognized as an illness by the medical

[-empyre-] Welcome to Week 3

2017-11-20 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear –empyre- subscribers and guests, Thanks to all of you who have posted this past week. As I mentioned earlier this morning these questions have been lurking in my mind. Wondering if any of you out there have some thoughts. What

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 3

2017-11-20 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Rahul, I just ordered Living on a Damaged Planet and am looking forward to reading it myself. Hope many of you were also inspired by Cristina and Ellie’s discussion last month. Rahul can you talk a bit more about MCSers or

[-empyre-] "unpredictable onslaught of triggered memories of violence to my body"

2017-11-18 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Christina wore from C-Theory: : “I feel my body is like a border; but, no, it is not itself a cyborg, because it (I) exist in some kind of condition of alterity outside technology even though I experience its operational architecture

Re: [-empyre-] Residual Contamination

2017-11-10 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Ellie, Marisa, Catherine and all, What a web of information In your posts. There are so many points that I want to pick up on and now that it is the weekend I’ll have a bit more time to chime in. For now I will begin here. Ellie

[-empyre-] Wrapping up October and and all-call for guests for November on Contamination

2017-11-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- It has been an incredibly rich and robust month thanks to Margaretha Haughwout and her guests. The month’s discussion, Radical Aesthetics of Multispecies Worlding, Eco-Art, and Solidarity in a More-than-human Capitalocene, will be

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