Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile :)

2013-07-02 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--The questions posed in the blog you reference are salient to our discussion, so I'll take the liberty of pasting them here (author: Michael Sacasas) What is a Borg Complex? A Borg Complex is exhibited by writers and pundits who explicitly

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile :)

2013-07-02 Thread David Golumbia
--empyre- soft-skinned space--exclusively re: "resistance is futile" with regard to advancing technology, see http://thefrailestthing.com/2013/03/01/borg-complex-a-primer/ On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Christina Spiesel < christina.spie...@yale.edu> wrote: > --

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- bios (another lurky one!)

2013-07-02 Thread Malcolm Levy
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre, I enjoy lurking on the list as well… Outside of the below I'm currently working on completing my MA at the New School and will be one of the directors for ISEA in 2015.. All best! Malcolm Malcolm Levy is an artist and cura

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile :)

2013-07-02 Thread G.H. Hovagimyan
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I keep thinking about McLuhan's, "The Medium is the Message." The networked reality we are living in is very exciting and changes al the time. The networks have invaded our personal space with cellphones and tablets. AR will be a further

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile :)

2013-07-02 Thread Terry Flaxton
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Ah! Agency. Interesting that current descriptions of volition include the idea of an instructor that determines when and how we will 'freely' respond - which is of course contradictory to the idea of volition (The Master and his Emissary,

[-empyre-] lurker bio: matthias tarasiewicz (parasew)

2013-07-02 Thread Matthias Tarasiewicz
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I know that I am late to the game, but here is my bio. Matthias Tarasiewicz (aka parasew) co-founded the group 5uper.net and the CODED CULTURES initiative (media arts festival and research platform). Being active as a digital bricoleur / co

[-empyre-] Lurker Bio

2013-07-02 Thread Jim Fleming
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Jim Fleming is the publisher and member of the editorial collective of Autonomedia, a radical small press in New York City. ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/em

[-empyre-] a very

2013-07-02 Thread Rachelle Knowles
--empyre- soft-skinned space--An avid reader of empyre... Artist, educator and researcher, my practice investigates dialogic and translocal methods in media and visual arts. Rachelle Viader Knowles Associate Professor and Head of Visual Arts University of Regina, C

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile :) Addendum

2013-07-02 Thread Terry Flaxton
--empyre- soft-skinned space--As an addendum to what I previously wrote: The panel I chaired at ISEA was entitled 'Moving Imaging Capabilities of the Future' which I eventually thought unwieldy and retitlted it: 'The Future of the Moving Image'. In this panel I introd

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile :)

2013-07-02 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Terry Some very interesting and nuanced ideas here. Where is thought? Where is mind? Where is the voice in our heads we often characterise as thinking? What other forms might thinking/thought assume, especially in a technological socie

Re: [-empyre-] bio

2013-07-02 Thread Jon Winet
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Proud to tag on to Ingrid's bio. Best wishes to the soft_skinned_space NB: an alumnus of one of Anne Balsamo's month of week-long empyre discussions (spring May 2012) --- Jon Winet is a media producer, artist, researcher and educator. Si

[-empyre-] A Late Lurking Bio

2013-07-02 Thread Tyler Fox
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre Lurkers, writers and moderators, I apologize for a late submission. Based in Seattle, WA USA, Tyler Fox is a PhD student at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. He received his MFA in Interm

[-empyre-] Resistance is Futile :)

2013-07-02 Thread Terry Flaxton
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I'm not sure how the list works but I offer what follows as a provocation for discussion: I sat through ISEA, as with many other conferences and for a long time an idea has been growing in me that challenges what I've been hearing: I fee

[-empyre-] ...yet another lurker bio

2013-07-02 Thread Peter ciccariello
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hope it's not too late. I have been watching and listening forever. here are a few little details. My images lie at the interstices of creative intermedia, where process overlaps and defines form and form becomes the carrier for the birth