[-empyre-] failure, collaboration, masks

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- hi again! i'm glad that renate picked up on failure and its relations to collaboration. i'm quite interested in failure right now, especially how it's recently been taken up in queer theoretical works like jack halberstam's the queer art

[-empyre-] closing down Queer Media Art Theory

for your contributions and provocations. micha is at the allied media conference in detroit this weekend, so she might jump in tomorrow. for now, thanks to those of you who engaged queerness and queerly with us during this month of queer media art theory. zach -- zach blas artist phd candidate

[-empyre-] Week 4 - Bio/Nano/Materialisms

. -- zach blas artist phd candidate literature, information science + information studies, visual studies duke university www.zachblas.info ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

[-empyre-] to jacob homay

and computational research could be infused with his erotic desires. could you say more about this? and maybe how turing helps you investigate how queer desire can shape or affect computation? -- zach blas artist phd candidate literature, information science + information studies, visual studies duke university

[-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P

that bears on conceptions and ontologies of reality or the real. and please, we’d love for all you empyre subscribers to jump in and share your thoughts with us! zach -- zach blas artist phd candidate literature, information science + information studies, visual studies duke university

Re: [-empyre-] Week 2 - Computation and the Nonhuman

for Visual Culture Bryn Mawr College Editorial Collective, Camera Obscura ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- zach blas artist phd candidate literature, information science + information studies, visual

[-empyre-] some questions for the week

and objects. what are your thoughts on such queer media art? can you point out examples that compellingly bring the human and nonhuman together, through computation or digital media for example? happy discussing! zach -- zach blas artist phd candidate literature, information science + information studies

[-empyre-] queer faces

in resisting neoliberal drives to calculate. -- zach blas artist phd candidate literature, information science + information studies, visual studies duke university www.zachblas.info ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

[-empyre-] on working queerly with media

. ..and with such questions as eventwork, maybe we get to queer is everywhere? i’d really love to hear all of your thoughts on doing new media work queerly! i’ll post again soon on faces because i’ve been dying to talk with amanda about this! -- zach blas artist phd candidate literature, information science

[-empyre-] Welcome to Queer Media Art Theory on empyre for the month of June!

June, 2012 on -empyre- soft_skinned space Queer Media Art and Theory Moderated by Zach Blas (US) and Micha Cárdenas (US) with Amanda Philips (US), Margaret Rhee (US/Korea), Jacob Gaboury (US), Jack Halberstam (US), Homay King (US), Michael O’Rourke (Ireland), Jordan Crandall (US), Patricia

[-empyre-] more on the grid

hello everyone-- thanks so much for all the questions and comments on my previous post. i’ve got a bit of time before my flight leaves new york for durham, so i’ll try to address your points and questions. mark, i really like your point that “one worm's vulnerabilities were previously the

[-empyre-] the virus, tactics of nonexistence, political love

i’d like to follow up my post from yesterday and flesh out a bit more on a politics of the imperceptible and its possible relations to viral tactics and aesthetics in political art practices. as i previously pointed out, in “the exploit,” galloway and thacker write that “future avant-garde

[-empyre-] disidentifying with capital, design, use, experience in queer technologies

to mobilize the desires of their multitude, QT finds immense political potential with the affective encounter. It is this affective encounter between the person and production situated within the world that has so much potential to mobilize. zach blas phd student literature information science

[-empyre-] disidentifying with capital, design, use, experience in queer technologies

potential to mobilize. zach blas phd student literature information science + information studies visual studies initiative duke university www.zachblas.info ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre