Re: [-empyre-] Poetry and/or poetic

2009-03-11 Thread Sally Jane Norman
I'm intrigued and confused Simon. In my clumsy thinking, discrete phenomena can be described BY the digital (digits) insofar as they're containable, finite state entities, but mightn't it be a perhaps over-exclusivist or distorted leap from there to describe them AS digital (?). I'm also

Re: [-empyre-] R: Agreement within difference

2009-05-14 Thread Sally Jane Norman
These links are for me uncanny - as befits the motion of critical thinking like this! - in that they can't but bring to mind Forsythe's execution of Bacon's Retranslation/ Final Unfinished Portrait, exhibited at the Louvre in autumn 06. Forsythe attached lead to his shoes and gloves and

Re: [-empyre-] indifference and in/direct politics

2009-05-19 Thread Sally Jane Norman
Hi Laura, good to have this - Artaud is howling in the background. The body without organs of the dance floor. (hey Stelarc, how about a footloose project to follow up on the added attractions?). Re Haussman, of course the boulevards since named after him were put to use to suppress the Paris

Re: [-empyre-] poets patrons and the word academic

2010-01-03 Thread Sally Jane Norman
thanks and happy new decade all, lots here to mull through; where and how do/ can we draw the line between bad art and bad causes? kia ora sjn From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Johanna

Re: [-empyre-] some thoughts on complicity

2010-01-10 Thread Sally Jane Norman
it's odd but so much of what I'm reading in this forum makes sense and I'd be inclined to call it some kind of collectively elaborated / negotiated critical theorising (not to say there's attainment of consensual positions, but a mindfulness of difference which allows/ predicates dialogue), so

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems

2014-07-06 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Johannes, Susan, all Discussion threads are exciting; we're in the midst of a symposium on Live Coding and the Body organised by Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean et al ( https://twitter.com/hashtag/lcatb?src=hash), so please accept my

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

2014-07-22 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Johannes, all We were using the notion of tessellation in the computer graphics sense, to see how we might implement and shape mixed reality boundaries to convey compelling corporeal experience. The example/ experiment we were engaged

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

2014-07-22 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--sorry, didn't mean to push send yet - winding up below On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM, sally jane norman normansallyj...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Johannes, all We were using the notion of tessellation in the computer graphics sense

Re: [-empyre-] body chair language

2014-07-23 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, Daniel Thanks, this is - for me! - useful and welcome; the language questions you outline obviously espouse those I deal with in French, though I'm not aware of embodiment being integrated as a solution - l'incorporation and

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

2014-07-24 Thread sally jane norman
to it. These forces of corporate influence embedded in the network are in themselves virtualised to increase their opacity, the ramifications buried in on-screen user agreements affecting our off-screen rights. Wesley On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:22 AM, sally jane norman normansallyj

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

2014-07-26 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks Wes, Personally I find your small gesture resonant in a number of ways, but this is (also) largely a question of sensibilities. The sensible, perceptible, crafting of otherwise hidden data to bring it into my sensorium feels

Re: [-empyre-] body chair language

2014-07-27 Thread sally jane norman
and back to life and so it goes on. all best, I think I'll go jump in the ocean... sj On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Sue Hawksley s...@articulateanimal.org.uk wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Sally Jane On 23 Jul 2014, at 18:35, sally jane norman

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment: end of July

2014-07-29 Thread sally jane norman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Virtual Embodiment Thanks to our invited discussants during week 4, Sally Jane Norman and Daniel Tercio, as well as those who contributed to the week's discussion

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Quinn, all Thanks for a superb subject for harvesting autumn musings (or spring shoots, for the half of the planet's population living down under...). Quinn, your digital example - discretised digits - is on a superficial reading

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread sally jane norman
/62c84c30-49e0-4f95-9cc2-f7e79b548c36/d3de9ea5dfbf58e4d31e333d2abbef28 ) ~ Quinn DuPont On October 8, 2014 at 12:41:08 PM, sally jane norman ( normansallyj...@googlemail.com(mailto:normansallyj...@googlemail.com)) wrote: I like the fact/ way you're seeking to develop connections across

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects

2014-10-11 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Ashley, all good question indeed - I'm wondering whether looking at Thrift and Dewsbury's non-representational theory mightn't offer some useful insights? This entails focus on practices and relations (across human and non-human

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-14 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--hi all intriguing examples - I enjoyed the Flann O'Brien bicycle, am wondering whether Deleuzian objectiles might have a place in this discussion, and also wonder how tuned non-francophones might be to Serres' example - the furet being a