Welcome back to all -empyre soft-skinned subscribers! Tim and I are still trying to come to the realization that another academic year has begun. Tim will be introducing the September discussion topic soon; our apologizes for the slight delay. Many of the guests this month (as I know many of our subscribers) have been away because of the holiday here in the Sates this past weekend and others remain on semester break. The topic this month "Archiving New Media Art: Ephemerality and/or Sustainability" will get under way within the next couple of days. The discussion is inspired by a conference in Argentina this past week. In fact as I write this, Tim is high in the sky above South America right now. Tim is excited to welcome many of the colleagues who joined him at this conference and will introduce them in a day or so. Our commitment to nurture-empyre¹s global readership has been both Tim and my mission as managing moderators. We were so happy that Simon Biggs (Scotland and UK) agreed to join the moderating team in July and are grateful to him for moderating the successful and widely followed discussion Creativity as Social Ontology. We are also happy that Gabriel Menotti (UK and AUS) as well as Nicholas Ruiz III (US) will continue to help us as part of our international team of moderators. Tim and I are honored to also announce that empyre's founding organizer Dr. Melinda Rackham has agreed to join the team as well after a hiatus of a few years. - empyre will be celebrating its upcoming 10th anniversary with a new look and many new discussion topics. We are very thankful to Melinda for joining us once again. In fact she will be moderating our November discussion. Many of you already know Melinda but I attach her recent biography below with the bios of our entire team. There are times during the year when one of our moderators will invite a guest to moderate. Those special guests will be introduced during the year just before their moderating discussion. Tim and I hope you have had a great month off and we are both looking forward to your joining us on empyre. Best to all of you, Renate Ferro Biographies: -empye¹s team of international moderators Simon BIggs (UK and AUSTRALIA) Simon Biggs is a visual artist born in Australia, 1957. He moved to the UK in 1986. Since 1978 Biggs has been working with digital and interactive systems in installation, networked and other media. Venues presenting his work include Tate Modern, Whitechapel, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Ikon (Birmingham), Centre de Georges Pompidou, Academy de Kunste and Kulturforum (Berlin), Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Macau Arts Museum, Cameraworks (San Francisco), Walker Art Center, Paco des Artes (Sao Paulo), Museo OI (Rio De Janeiro), McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch), Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Publications include Autopoeisis (with James Leach, Artwords, 2004), Halo (Film and Video Umbrella, 1998), Magnet (McDougall Art Gallery, 1997) and CD-ROM's Book of Shadows and Great Wall of China (Ellipsis, 1996 and 1999). He is Professor at Edinburgh College of Art. His URL is http://www.littlepig.org.uk <http://www.littlepig.org.uk/> Renate Ferro (United States) is fa media artist working in emerging technology and culture. Her artistic practice reflects critical interactivity incorporating social and theoretical paradigms of the psychological and sociological condition with networks of technology. At the heart of her most recent interests, Ferro critically engages the corporal body's symbiotic relationship with technology by aligning artistic, creative practice with critical approaches to cyber configurations. She permits emerging creative skins of networks and resources whose resulting configurations range from drawing and text to performance, installation, and net-based projects. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in the United States as well as Canada, Germany, and Mexico. Her work has been published in the journals Diacritics, Theater Journal, and Epoch. She is Managing Moderator of the online list serve -empyre soft skinned space and the art/imaging editor of Diacritics. She is the founder and director of her cross-disciplinary lab, The Tinker Factory housed at Cornell University where she is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art. Her artistic work can be accessed at http://www.renteferro.net/ <http://www.renteferro.net/> . Gabriel Menotti (Australia and UK) is a PhD Candidate on the Media and Communications department of Goldsmiths University of London. He works as an independent media curator and producer, and has already done remix film festivals, cinematographic videogame championships, porn screenplay workshops, installations with super8 film projectors and generative art exhibitions. His MA thesis, ³Through the Dark Room Spatial Dynamics for Audiovisual Consumption², received the Itaú Cultural Cybernetic Arts 2006 award. Timothy Murray (US) is Founding Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art (http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/ <http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/> ), Director of the Society for the Humanities (http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/ <http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/> ), and Professor of Comparative Literature and English. Co-Managing Moderator of the -empyre- new media listserv, and co-curator of CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA, he is a curator of new media art and a philosopher of art, media and the digital arts. His exhibitions include Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom (US, Mexico, France, China, Canada) and INFOS 2000 (Slovenia), with books on Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008), Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-Rom (Centro de la Imagen, 1999), Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997), Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993), and, ed., Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (Michigan, 1997)." Melinda Rackham (AUSTRALIA) Melinda Rackham is a pioneering network artist, critic, curator and cultural producer, working across sculptural, performative, distributed, emergent and responsive media artforms for over twenty-five years. Her extensive knowledge of the field is drawn from active participation in many of the early netart and current major media art exhibitions, festivals and conferences. I would like to take the time Melinda was the first Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI), and established -empyre-, one of the world¹s leading online critical media art theory forums. As Director of Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) she forged significant industry partnerships and elevated public engagement with research and practice in art, science and new technologies. Dr Rackham¹s focus as Adjunct Professor at RMIT University is curating and writing on emerging art and cultures manifest in public, virtual, crafted, responsive and distributed environments. Her current project DreamWorlds is a survey of Australian Moving Image forms on a spectacular 27-meter urban screen in Beijing. For more information see www.subtle.net <http://www.subtle.net/> Nicholas Ruiz III (US) was born in New York City in 1970 and now lives in New Smyrna Beach, FL. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Capital (2006) and America in Absentia (2008). He is also the editor of Kritikos and a moderator of -empyre-. Renate Ferro URL: http://www.renateferro.net Email: <r...@cornell.edu>
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