During the month of April, Patrick Lichty hosted a discussion on -empyre dealing with Augmented Realities. During the month I was noticed that the discussion often included wearable technologies that augmented the senses. I recently came across an interview with Stelarc on You Tube just a few days ago where he said in relationship to his own performance work, “The body is obsolete: These performance projects position the body as a kind of evolutionary architecture for operation and awareness in the world. Here we have the biological architecture of the body and when you add technology to it you can extend its operational capabilities. The body is not seen as a site for the psyche more for social inscription but is seen as a structure not as an object of desire but as possibly an object for redesign.” Perhaps during the month we will be able to talk more about the intersections of the body, technology and architecture.
Tim and I are hoping that last month's discussion and guests will join this month's group as we talk specifically about wearable technologies. We would like to introduce *Janis Jefferies* (UK) and Valérie Lamontagne (CA) whose biographies I just sent out a few minutes ago. Janis and Valérie will be making posts tonight or tomorrow given our time zone differences. Welcome to them! Renate Ferro Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <r...@cornell.edu> URL: http://www.renateferro.net http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre Art Editor, diacritics http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/
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