Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-17 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Much of our conversation thus far has been bound up with digital objects/quasi-objects/objectiles. Before we wrap the week up, I’d like to look a little more closely at (a slight reformulation of) Daniel’s last question, namely: *Where

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-16 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Spheres 1-20 // Sara Ludy http://www.saraludy.com/spheres120.html In both of their emails, Phil and John called attention to the role of hardware and software, as structural means through which “data files” are attributed a

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects

2014-10-09 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear --empyre-- members and invited discussants, Thank you for an engaging start to this month's conversation! I have a bit of a follow-up question that I feel engages several of the entries thus far and that, I hope, might get us

[-empyre-] empyre DIGITAL OBJECTS october introductions

2014-10-06 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--*Welcome to October, 2014 on --empyre-- soft-skinned space: * *DIGITAL OBJECTS * Moderated by Quinn DuPont (CA), Anais Nony (FR), and Ashley Scarlett (CA) with invited discussants to include: Ange Albertini (US); Dragan Epstein (DE

[-empyre-] week one - PRACTICE - introduction

2014-10-06 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--*October 6-12* *PRACTICE* Much of the current and most pressing work on digital objects is being taken up within professional and creative contexts through practice. In an effort to ground a largely theoretical discussion on digital