Re: [-empyre-] nothing gives - mathematical reality of biopolitical implants

2014-11-26 Thread simon
colonisation is dirty, malevolent and violent. And as Ana has indicated it is misogynist. It is misogynist before it is misanthropic. Best, Simon PS: On 26/11/14 20:02, Alan Sondheim wrote: thank you for this - is are there any particular references? would be useful - alan Heisig, James W

[-empyre-] nothing gives

2014-11-25 Thread simon
this - rehearsing - because I said we need to bring together in the group all those things that makes us feel good - facing a singularity - that of potential human extinction - with the particularities of our individual powers - in performance.) Best, Simon

Re: [-empyre-] Wood, what calms (if one has the luxury of calming)

2014-11-24 Thread simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- good wood oud. thanks, Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz, was geschehen ist

2014-11-22 Thread simon
with zombies, undead; our images of art can seem so lifeless... and vampiric. Best, Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz, was geschehen ist

2014-11-21 Thread simon
/with/ a politics we would, if we gave ourselves the choice, disavow?) Best, Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

[-empyre-] is there a global horror just around the corner?

2014-11-19 Thread simon
the corner? - a naive question, I know. Thank you, Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss Post

2014-11-17 Thread simon
frown,// //The wrinkles of its mouth.// // // //... /Best, Simon / // // / ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-16 Thread simon
and inconsequentiality around the world. best, Simon Taylor ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-16 Thread simon
of expression, expressing an intention, whether natural or anti-, it can acquire qualities of ritual or convention, conferring status or recognition, communicating, representing, and becoming performance or art. Best, Simon ___ empyre forum empyre

[-empyre-] images hard to watch

2014-11-08 Thread simon
/60739363 http://vimeo.com/37774195 ... Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] concerning violence

2014-11-07 Thread simon
is the impossible act of the subject, impossible to perform. Is this why it is lacking? best, Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] the horror, the horror

2014-11-07 Thread simon
of the explosion. Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

[-empyre-] either the victim or the killer but never the image

2014-11-06 Thread simon
our bodies to be signs of their truth, in the properly religious ritual? Best, Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment

2014-08-05 Thread simon
-- dear all it may well be that out time/images on virtual embodiment is up, thus I wish to thank the moderators for inviting me to participate, and to all the others who posted here, a thank you for a very inspiring month of conversations.. And Simon Taylor's last post may still hover. Jacky

Re: [-empyre-] grappling with collective capture, differences amongst distributed identity

2014-07-29 Thread simon
don't fear this beyond, it is the subject of our current workshops. (The thinking being, beyond the sum of time-images we make following our methodology, there is a ... something, maybe it's Goya, maybe Bacon! ... Again, your input by other channels, gestures, would be welcomed.) Best, Simon

[-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment: end of July

2014-07-28 Thread Simon Biggs
are evident here in the Adelaide Hills, with nesting birds, early flowerings and new lambs. empyre will take a break during August and will return in September. Sue and Simon SUE HAWKSLEY independent dance artist s...@articulateanimal.org.uk http://www.articulateanimal.org.uk Simon Biggs si

Re: [-empyre-] collective capture, distributed identity - extension

2014-07-28 Thread Simon Biggs
for a later empyre discussion? best Simon On 29 Jul 2014, at 08:52, simon s...@clear.net.nz wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- I left out a word - extended: ...is there an ideology of extended or distributed mind, agency or identity? that questions embodied

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual embodiment made of meat

2014-07-26 Thread simon
of a crisis which is brought to us in art. Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

[-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment: week 4

2014-07-21 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Virtual Embodiment Welcome to the fourth and final week of the July 2014 discussion on –empyre– soft-skinned space: Moderated by Sue Hawksley (UK/AUS) and Simon Biggs (AUS/UK) with invited discussants Susan Kozel (SE), Johannes

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-20 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--What's are 'things' when everything is affected by interaction with everything else? Quantum Physics renders meaning, and things (and therefore relations), fugitive. best Simon On 21 Jul 2014, at 08:01, John Hopkins jhopk

[-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment: week 3

2014-07-14 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to the third week of the July discussion on –empyre– soft-skinned space: Moderated by Sue Hawksley (UK/AUS) and Simon Biggs (AUS/UK) with invited discussants Susan Kozel (SE), Johannes Birringer (UK), Samantha Gorman (USA

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment: week 2

2014-07-09 Thread Simon Biggs
developed the Socio-Technical Studies field tend not to indulge such dualism. best Simon On 10 Jul 2014, at 01:10, John Hopkins jhopk...@neoscenes.net wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- A few morning musings -- before picking up a hammer. Finally, last week

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems body weather

2014-07-07 Thread Simon Biggs
after the presence/present and virtual moments (and Simon must then not understand your work at all, does he?)? respectfully Johannes Birringer Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk | @_simonbiggs_ http://www.littlepig.org.uk | http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs simon.bi

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems body weather

2014-07-06 Thread Simon Biggs
to Alan ;) best Simon On 6 Jul 2014, at 10:32, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- You might be interested in Merlin Donald who argues much the same thing; even here, however, I'd ask where is the Borg? In ISIS/ISIL? In the US

[-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment: week 2

2014-07-06 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to the second week of the July discussion on –empyre– soft-skinned space: Moderated by Sue Hawksley (UK/AUS) and Simon Biggs (AUS/UK) with invited discussants Susan Kozel (SE), Johannes Birringer (UK), Samantha Gorman (USA

[-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment: end of week 1

2014-07-06 Thread Simon Biggs
Hopkins. We hope they all remain engaged in the discussion as it evolves throughout the month. The announcement for next week will be issued shortly. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk | @_simonbiggs_ http://www.littlepig.org.uk | http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs simon.bi...@unisa.edu.au

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems body weather

2014-07-05 Thread Simon Biggs
to consider as coherent - but this is just an illusion cloaking our atomised (schizoid) condition that is amplified as we evolve/extend ourselves. 2010, http://www.littlepig.org.uk/texts/BecomingBorg.pdf 2011, http://www.littlepig.org.uk/texts/TwitterChip.pdf best Simon On 6 Jul 2014, at 00:18

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems

2014-07-03 Thread Simon Biggs
, systems, technologies, other people, the planet, etc. These are specific to the individual, and of course culturally conditioned (culture is part of the dispositif), but many elements are shared. If your system is a shambles then it's no surprise that everybody else's is too :) best Simon

Re: [-empyre-] virtual embodiment - some thoughts on resonances of the virtual in 2014

2014-07-02 Thread Simon Biggs
, often taboo, and that it is in this sense it offers another less travelled route for engaging our technical systems. I guess I'm just attracted to the less well-worn path and have a suspicion interesting insights might thus be found. So, I disagree with Gaver. best Simon On 2 Jul 2014

[-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment: week 1

2014-06-30 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned spaceempyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to the first week of the July discussion on –empyre- soft-skinned space: Moderated by Sue Hawksley (UK/AUS) and Simon Biggs (AUS/UK) with invited discussants Susan

[-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment

2014-06-30 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned spaceempyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to the July discussion on –empyre- soft-skinned space: Moderated by Sue Hawksley (UK/AUS) and Simon Biggs (AUS/UK) with invited discussants Susan Kozel (SE), Johannes

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Delirium revisited

2014-05-11 Thread simon
- as that theoretical cul-de-sac that ought at least be avoided - 'strategic withdrawal' were better called 'statistical withdrawal' - a term less pregnant with cognitive content. Best, Simon Taylor ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http

Re: [-empyre-] Surfing: new discussions about new media and theory

2014-05-06 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Vacuum cleaners were also developed from military origins. However, blu-tack wasn't. It was invented by a guy in Yorkshire. best Simon On 6 May 2014, at 17:02, Richard Wright futurenatu...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: --empyre

Re: [-empyre-] Surfing: new discussions about new media and theory

2014-05-05 Thread Simon Biggs
for a little while - but it wasn't. best Simon On 6 May 2014, at 05:45, Renate Ferro r...@cornell.edu wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- In flux: New Media and Mediation in 2014 Recently while surfing the net I ran across Geert Lovink’s intriguing article

Re: [-empyre-] The Playsthetics of Experimental Digital Games: Week 2 subtopics and questions

2014-03-13 Thread Bart Simon
(with almost no ethical oversight I might add) but it is not experimental game design. Maybe we can also take on the art function question that Sebastian is using as leverage for gamification but I'll save that for later cheers, Bart -- = Bart Simon

Re: [-empyre-] The Playsthetics of Experimental Digital Games: Week 1 Featured Guests and Questions

2014-03-05 Thread Bart Simon
this? cheers, Bart -- = Bart Simon, Associate Professor of Sociology Director, Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) Concordia University, Montreal bart.simon [at] concordia.ca http://www.tag.hexagram.ca

[-empyre-] The Playsthetics of Experimental Digital Games: Games as Public Experiments

2014-03-04 Thread Bart Simon
to explore this distinction. That's enough to get started I hope. I am looking forward to the month ahead and to pushing some new ideas back and forth. Thanks to Sandra and to the empyre community for inviting me. cheers, Bart -- = Bart Simon

Re: [-empyre-] The Playsthetics of Experimental Digital Games: Week 1 Featured Guests and Questions

2014-03-04 Thread Bart Simon
: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Week 1 (March 3-9): Bart Simon, mrghosty, Felan Parker. I would like to introduce the first three guests of this discussion, Bart Simon, mrghosty and Felan Parker. Questions of the week: Experimental games - tensions 1

Re: [-empyre-] The Self and Post-Reality

2014-01-19 Thread simon
with whom will be like, he says, walking into the bank with an uzi. And so on. And Pomo-organ and Dali-organ do not connect except in the most rational sense of cause and effect. Best, Simon Taylor ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http

Re: [-empyre-] setting fire to avatars, collapsing realities

2014-01-18 Thread simon
their fingers on them. I suspect co-dependent art works for their systematising - and deferring the totality - of my projection into or onto them: at best, merely neurotic, but then paranoia... By all means burn my avatar on empyre, collapse my reality, but don't ask my complicity. best, Simon

[-empyre-] empyre: Resistance is futile, ISEA, Sydney 2013

2013-07-29 Thread Simon Biggs
will return in September with a new theme, shortly to be announced. As always, thanks to all list members for your attention. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk @SimonBiggsUK http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs s.bi...@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art, University

Re: [-empyre-] empyre: engagement was all

2013-07-27 Thread simon
(and determination) of natural processes that gives us without too great a metaphorical leap social and cultural, economic and technological ecologies (engaging a thoroughgoing and thoroughly entangling ecological determinism). Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com

Re: [-empyre-] empyre: engagement was all

2013-07-27 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I wonder what Gary Warner, one of our earlier guests this month, might have to say about rewilding? best Simon On 26 Jul 2013, at 22:48, simon s...@clear.net.nz wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- two

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 104, Issue 25

2013-07-26 Thread Simon Biggs
future ISEAs need to be more focused, addressing specific questions, if a sense of urgency is to emerge from ISEA's activities. I suspect that even debating what such a focus might be would generate significant heat. best Simon On 25 Jul 2013, at 20:23, Sue Hawksley s...@articulateanimal.org.uk

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 104, Issue 25

2013-07-26 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I only intended to state that interactivity was part of the mix, not the complete paradigm. I quite like the term inter-agency and Hayles's term technogenesis is workable. best Simon On 26 Jul 2013, at 12:05, carol-ann braun carol

[-empyre-] empyre: Resistance is futile, ISEA, Sydney 2013 - week 4

2013-07-22 Thread Simon Biggs
of agency? - the challenges and opportunities associated with big data? - urbanism, activism and the socially disruptive potential of technology? Looking forward to another week's discussion... moderator: Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk @SimonBiggsUK http://amazon.com

Re: [-empyre-] empyre: Resistance is futile, ISEA, Sydney 2013 - week 3

2013-07-18 Thread BIGGS Simon
of agency changed in mediated public and private spaces? How have notions of embodiment changed, expanded or transformed, in mediated public and private spaces? I'd also like to ask, subsequently, what are the affects upon self and collective in this context? best Simon On 16 Jul 2013

Re: [-empyre-] ISEA Empyre1.docx

2013-07-16 Thread Simon Biggs
? Is facebook itself a large scale virtual non-place? That idea seems pregnant with redundancy and subsequent loss. best Simon On 16 Jul 2013, at 13:09, Deborah Ely debo...@bundanon.com.au wrote: Coming away from ISEA 2013 I’m left wondering about the term genius loci – a concept we engage

Re: [-empyre-] empyre: engagement is all

2013-07-12 Thread Simon Biggs
is a delightful read - always so much to think about... johannes - thanks for throwing simon - thanks for asking gw ……….. gary warner 0416 221 505 soundcloud flickr vimeo blurb books cdp media 32/94 oxford st darlinghurst nsw 2010 australia

[-empyre-] empyre: Resistance is futile, ISEA, Sydney 2013 - week 2

2013-07-08 Thread BIGGS Simon
, Christine Spiesel and Simon Taylor, responded energetically, with much of the focus being upon how knowledge and cognition might variously be constituted. Thanks to everyone for writing and reading. Before introducing the second week's three discussants (Paul Sermon, Charlotte Gould and Gary Warner

[-empyre-] sp.

2013-07-07 Thread simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Michael Sacasas's - apologies - Borg Complex ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

[-empyre-] resistance is shiftless\ In its current state now it's a weapon, said Ms. Law. Do I want it to get in the hands of the Syrian Electric Army? No! /futility is the paradigm

2013-07-07 Thread simon
, closing a circuit of personal fantasy and fictionalising the results - rather, their lack - through reflexivity: that's my story. A fantasy of traversal without encounter. Is there a link between the Borg Complex, brilliantly exposed by Michael Saracas (via Simon Biggs), and Big Data

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile/ the mind is a muscle: mere note

2013-07-04 Thread simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- so much of this seems bad abstraction, yet I'm drawn in by Johannes's image to say, the stories we tell make up the body - but I don't like stories so perhaps I should say, the plots we make thicken as the body - since we don't yet

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

2013-07-02 Thread Simon Biggs
then I'd be especially interested in your thoughts. best Simon On 2 Jul 2013, at 08:36, Terry Flaxton terry.flax...@uwe.ac.uk wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- I'm not sure how the list works but I offer what follows as a provocation for discussion: I

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

2013-07-02 Thread Simon Biggs
to dismiss present concerns “… the novel as we know it today is only a 200-year-old construct. And now we’re getting new forms of entertainment, new forms of popular culture.” best Simon On 3 Jul 2013, at 02:29, David Golumbia dgolum...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space

[-empyre-] empyre: Resistance is futile, ISEA, Sydney 2013

2013-07-01 Thread BIGGS Simon
and galleries around the world. His latest research involves Higher Dynamic Range Capture and Display and he has just finished the worlds first HDR, HFR moving image work. Simon Biggs (GB/AU) is a media artist, writer and curator with interests in digital poetics, affective, interactive

[-empyre-] see, below

2013-06-07 Thread simon
a solitary political recourse. I am looking for support from the institution to do this work while there is still an institution able. a little more linked here: http://about.me/squarewhteworld and about company here: https://gust.com/c/littleelephantltd best, Simon Taylor

[-empyre-] all call information

2013-06-03 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all Welcome to the June on -empyre-soft-skinned space: empyre moderators Renate Ferro (US), Timothy Murray (US), Simon Biggs (UK), and Patrick Lichty (US) According to my records (probably inaccurate) I subscribed to empyre

[-empyre-] crowd and sacrifice

2013-05-31 Thread simon
have gone at too great a length. Apologies. Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] from the [alter]south

2013-05-29 Thread simon
. Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] about Brooke's post

2013-05-26 Thread simon
as consequence that come to serve to mitigate, tranq, anaesthetise and capture the wild, the impossible overreaching - and its violence - I consider as essential to truly creative collaboration. Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com On 26/05/13 04:39, Timothy Conway Murray wrote

[-empyre-] holes

2013-05-22 Thread simon
. Best, Simon www.squarewhiteworld.com On 23/05/13 01:48, Ana Valdés wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi -empyreans, I am a bit worried for the silence of our subscribers. Is the wrong topic or the wrong time to have this conversation? Since it was my idea to have

Re: [-empyre-] my observations about collaboration

2013-05-17 Thread simon
of the network as being in immanence and theory as touching rather than showing or spectacularising. Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] SenseLab - new forms of collaboration

2013-05-12 Thread simon
this uncertainty, insufficiency and haphazardness are the way certainty proceeds. So what enables you to travel to a new world is an absolute minimum luggage limit from the old. Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com ___ empyre forum empyre

[-empyre-] July theme request

2013-04-16 Thread Simon Biggs
of participation. best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk @SimonBiggsUK http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs s.bi...@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/school-of-art/staff/staff?person_id

Re: [-empyre-] empyre January 2013 wrap: International Art English

2013-01-28 Thread Simon Biggs
of entry. The door the PhD leads to is also closely guarded by guardians who seem rather nervous about what might happen if they let these new arrivals in. Every group has its gatekeepers (often self-appointed). Don't we all love human behaviour? best Simon On 28 Jan 2013, at 08:52, Phi Shu

Re: [-empyre-] FW: empyre January 2013 wrap: International Art English

2013-01-28 Thread Simon Biggs
Yes - but... ...whilst the origins of IAE might be in some of the pseudo-intellectual back channels of second rate academia its sustenance is driven by commerce, in the form of the art market. Not quite the same thing as Korsyn is identifying. best Simon On 28 Jan 2013, at 11:05, Phi Shu

[-empyre-] empyre January 2013 wrap

2013-01-27 Thread Simon Biggs
research and creative practice remains open, active and disputed. Given that as artists and researchers we wouldn't want it any other way we can assume we agree this is generally a good thing. Many thanks to all for this month's enlightening and engaging discussion. best Simon Simon Biggs si

Re: [-empyre-] FW: FW: FW: FW: Research in Practice, week three, January 21-28

2013-01-25 Thread Simon Biggs
You're right of course. There's a task at hand... best Simon On 25 Jan 2013, at 16:59, Phi Shu wrote: I'd like to think there's an opportunity here... That's up to the people who are positioned high enough up the academic ladder to push for change, but will that really happen? It's

Re: [-empyre-] scores, landscapes and defenders

2013-01-25 Thread Simon Biggs
- but we did have some unhappy lecturers for a while who avoided my students. The student passed with distinction and is now a reasonably high profile Dutch video and performance artist. best Simon On 25 Jan 2013, at 16:30, Johannes Birringer wrote: well my proposal is simple: what

Re: [-empyre-] Practice in Research defenders

2013-01-24 Thread Simon Biggs
to be. Good artists are very good at being their harshest critics, able to cut out from their work elements for which they might have strong feelings (through labour or personal preference) when they realise they compromise the work. The same is true for good PhDs. best Simon On 24 Jan 2013, at 01

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 98, Issue 21

2013-01-24 Thread Simon Biggs
http://www.littlepig.org.uk/texts/practiceresearch.pdf On 24 Jan 2013, at 04:48, Mike Leggett wrote: Kirk and Cecile both ask about sources for clarifying this area. Simon hasn't mentioned I don't think the research he undertook a few years ago into the topic. Simon is there anything

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 98, Issue 16

2013-01-22 Thread Simon Biggs
Good point Vicky. For those on the list who receive their posts in Digest form it can be difficult to discern current posts from historical posts when scrolling through a day's emails. Please do edit your replies to the list before posting to ensure there's no long tail. best Simon On 22

Re: [-empyre-] January at empyre - Research in Practice

2013-01-22 Thread Simon Biggs
just see all these question marks... best Simon On 22 Jan 2013, at 02:00, Mike Leggett wrote: Dear empyrecists - I too have been attempting to follow the discussion. (It is not made easy when great screeds of previous posts are included for no apparent reason - etiquette required please

Re: [-empyre-] Practice in Research odd methods, rude mechanics

2013-01-20 Thread Simon Biggs
submission. I am also aware of similar forms of PhD in the area of creative writing. best Simon On 20 Jan 2013, at 15:27, Cecile Chevalier wrote: So now I feel even more confused, as no one has ever yet, here, mentioned an artwork produced in the university and submitted for review (evaluation

[-empyre-] Research in Practice, week three, January 21-28

2013-01-20 Thread Simon Biggs
’. The project's main objective was to understand the value of artists employing noise (disturbances) in the formulation of interfaces (i.e. films, videos, photographs, sculptures, etc.) and its implications for the observer’s interpretation. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http

Re: [-empyre-] Practice in Research odd methods, rude mechanics

2013-01-18 Thread Simon Biggs
, astronomy, pure maths, anthropology, philosophy or creative practice. Happily it is still possible to spend tax payers money on useless inquiry. best Simon Sent from a mobile device, thus the brevity. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk s.bi...@ed.ac.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk On 18 Jan 2013

[-empyre-] Research in Practice, week two, January 14-20

2013-01-13 Thread BIGGS Simon
.http://aslemeur.free.fr/index_eng.htm Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.ukmailto:si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk s.bi...@ed.ac.ukmailto:s.bi...@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments

Re: [-empyre-] Debt Culture--types of debt

2012-11-29 Thread simon
- of a working democracy - oscillation of ideology precedes the instauration of a sticky economic immanence on whose planes roam fascist jellyfish - social and cultural institutions - assimilating critique and losing none of their sting in the wrestling. Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com

Re: [-empyre-] Executives and corporatization

2012-11-27 Thread Simon Biggs
be a cut. That's when the pips will squeak and retrenchment begins. best Simon On 27 Nov 2012, at 02:46, Erin Obodiac wrote: Dear Nicky Donald, Thank you for your post. I had a postdoc at Leeds a couple of years back and I caught a glimpse of what you're talking about. Thank you, Nicky

Re: [-empyre-] Executives and corporatization

2012-11-27 Thread Simon Biggs
there. Why are we surprised? best Simon Sent from a mobile device, thus the brevity. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk s.bi...@ed.ac.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk On 27 Nov 2012, at 16:45, Nicky Donald nicky.don...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Simon l agree the status and prospects

Re: [-empyre-] Executives and corporatization

2012-11-25 Thread Simon Biggs
Sums it up, I think. best Simon On 24 Nov 2012, at 18:30, Brian Holmes wrote: On 11/23/2012 07:28 PM, Susan E Ryan wrote: I have witnessed the escalation of university administration, both in the number of administrative positions and in the rather breathtaking salaries that I have heard

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-30 Thread Simon Biggs
A good number of our key people for the Remediating the Social event are caught up in this storm. We also hope they are OK and can get on their flights to Edinburgh asap. best Simon On 30 Oct 2012, at 14:22, Renate Ferro wrote: To all of the empyreans on the East Coast of the US please

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-28 Thread simon
or else it is itself the project and end of that carefully controlled and monitored and emotionally supportive environment. Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-27 Thread simon
of being equal to the wound which afflicts us? or in other words, acting?) Best, Simon Taylor www.squarewhiteworld.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] of interest below

2012-10-26 Thread simon
- uncanny - at the heart of the song. Humanity is nothing but habit and with no more than a slight push it is gone. Best, Simon www.squarewhiteworld.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] night sea crossing 3 + 4

2012-10-22 Thread simon
by pain were concerned. I'm too thin, as David Byrne sings. I regret the interpretation of Celan that reads his poetry into its aporias. With Anne Carson, I think of him as a lapidary writer, incising at great effort words into warm stone. Exhausted. She can't go on. She goes on... Best, Simon

Re: [-empyre-] performing in virtual

2012-10-11 Thread Simon Biggs
No full frontal male nudity in the States? You poor things. You don't know what you are missing! Here in the UK we wallow in Offili's elephant poo and dance amongst diverse flying cocks - and that's just the politicians. best Simon On 11 Oct 2012, at 20:51, Alan Sondheim wrote: In our

Re: [-empyre-] NA: A parting thought

2012-10-02 Thread Simon Biggs
but entraps us. NA is an extreme form of the Californian ideology and, as such, repeats its errors. Somebody said NA is anti-ideological but it is actually highly ideological, a form of positivist idealism. best Simon On 1 Oct 2012, at 17:58, pedro wrote: hi simon, very interesting, what do

Re: [-empyre-] The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Machines

2012-09-14 Thread simon
aesthetics seems to me to be a grabfest at the process of the new. Which it never quite gets. Best, Simon David On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:56, Lichty, Patrick plic...@colum.edu mailto:plic...@colum.edu wrote: Well, I actually see a lot of The New Aesthetic, as with much of what

Re: [-empyre-] The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Machines

2012-09-13 Thread Simon Biggs
Hi Mez I wish to minimise my contribution to Bridle's tenure track metrics but wanted to say that I do not think your cynicism is misplaced here. best Simon On 12 Sep 2012, at 00:44, mez breeze wrote: Nice timing, seeing Bridle has reactivated the New Aesthetic tumblr in the last two

Re: [-empyre-] split screens

2012-07-31 Thread simon
this month. For example: ...so perhaps screens are not everywhere. There is hope. (Simon Biggs, 30/7/12) For the first issue, that there is something wrong with western traditions - which ones? - wanting to sustain the illusion rather than pierce it or enjoy the complementary halves of a fore

Re: [-empyre-] split screens

2012-07-31 Thread Simon Biggs
Hi Simon I was half-joking when I made my crack about screens (thankfully) not being everywhere. It's just that I'm about to take a week's holiday and not have a computer with me for the first time in years. The thought of this alone is strangely liberating... I hadn't been thinking about

Re: [-empyre-] stepping out of the frame to shadow play around

2012-07-30 Thread Simon Biggs
Talking about passing on - someone who understood the screen well has passed on - Chris Marker. best Simon On 30 Jul 2012, at 09:56, Sean Cubitt wrote: (I know we are passing on the baton but . . . ) Patricia asked about: a specific computational technology of abstraction that puts

Re: [-empyre-] screens

2012-07-29 Thread Simon Biggs
like empyre. It's great to know we are part of a community of people who, including all the members of the list, sustain their engagement in this way. I know Renate has something to say so I'll keep this short and pass over to her. Many thanks to everyone. best Simon Simon Biggs si

[-empyre-] July on empyre: Screens (week 4)

2012-07-22 Thread BIGGS Simon
Archeology (with Jussi Parikka), University of California Press. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.ukmailto:si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk s.bi...@ed.ac.ukmailto:s.bi...@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh http://www.eca.ac.uk

Re: [-empyre-] July on empyre: Sceens (week 3)

2012-07-18 Thread Simon Biggs
a Warhol multiple - using repetition to break our sense of contiguity and spatial relations. This is a trick that was used by Paik to great effect in many of his classic and influential works, particularly the larger video sculptures like Global Groove and Electronic Superhighway. best Simon

Re: [-empyre-] July on empyre: Sceens (week 3)

2012-07-17 Thread Simon Biggs
chosen to step back into the frame again, aping (home) cinema. Sad, really... best Simon On 17 Jul 2012, at 19:35, Sean Cubitt wrote: Ciao Salvatore, salut Karen, G'day Scott, hello I just visited Sung Hwan Kim's installation in the new Tanks space at Tate Modern, which attempts something

[-empyre-] July on empyre: Screens (week 3)

2012-07-15 Thread Simon Biggs
in the emerging field of urban communication has pioneered new ways of understanding the social impact of large video screens situated in public space. He teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk

Re: [-empyre-] Martin Rieser on Screen/Interface

2012-07-12 Thread Simon Biggs
But a key argument of the month's theme is that the screen is rarely just a screen anymore - that is no longer a window but an interface. This is part of what often makes the screen (inter)active. Interfaces are on topic, so don't stop now... best Simon On 12 Jul 2012, at 14:17, Laura Lotti

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