narrative on the empyre listserve
Organized by Daniel Lichtman. ‘Moderated’ by Helena Haimes, Daniel
Lichtman, Robert Rapoport, Lee Tusman, Xin Xin (biographies below).
Artists will include: Johann Arens, Asta Groting, Maia Conran, Hans
Diernberger, Jessica Tsang, Beth Collar, Kerry Downy, William
--empyre- soft-skinned space--This is the first artwork! Look forward to responses from the moderators,
and anyone on the list who would like to respond! Also, please feel free to
respond to this artwork at a later date even if other works have been
posted.
Benjamin
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Empyre list,
As we’re in the last days of this month’s program, I wanted to invite
anyone from the list to respond to any of the posted artworks. As you can
see, responses can be quick and intuitive if you like—take the bullet point
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Ian Giles
On The Way To Language
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/133909025
Ian Giles (b. 1985, UK) completed his MFA in 2012 at the Slade School of
Fine Art. He was a LUX Associate Artist 2012/13. Recent exhibitions
and screenings
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez
Making You, Making Others
Video link: http://anxioustomake.ga/makingyoumakingothers.html
Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Her
work strives to create an expanded,
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>> Thank you for your link.
>>
>> Is this title a reference to Heidegger's conference about language?
>>
>> best from Brazil
>> s
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>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Lichtman
>> wrote:
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>>> --empyre- soft-ski
; Is this title a reference to Heidegger's conference about language?
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>> best from Brazil
>> s
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Lichtman
>> wrote:
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>>> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>>>
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hans Diernberger
Hundstein
Video link: https://vimeo.com/24724442
Hans Diernberger (Munich,1983) studied Media Art at the Academy of Media
Arts in Cologne (2004-09) and accomplished the MFA in Fine Art at
Goldsmiths College, London
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I should add that this work was suggested for inclusion by guest moderator
Robert Rapoport!
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:11 PM Daniel Lichtman
wrote:
> -edit, music, sound effects tell me to read this as a film, and tell me to
&g
--empyre- soft-skinned space--And I this work was suggested for inclusion by guest moderator Lee Tusman!
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:00 PM Daniel Lichtman
wrote:
> Kenneth Tam
> Breakfast in Bed
>
> Video link: https://kennethtam.info/Breakfast-in-Bed
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Kenneth Tam
Breakfast in Bed
Video link: https://kennethtam.info/Breakfast-in-Bed (two minute excerpt)
Kenneth Tam is an artist who uses sculpture and video to explore his
interests, which include Abercrombie and Fitch, public restrooms,
, intensional but inexplicable
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 10:52 PM Daniel Lichtman wrote:
>
> Another artwork that explores touch.
>
> Johann Arens
> Moulding Exclusivities
>
> Video link: https://vimeo.com/223404129
> Password: Empyre
>
> Johann Arens (b. 1981, Aach
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi list,
Here are some concluding thoughts on the month, by way of answering Shu Lea
Cheang and Aviva Rahmani’s questions about selection of artworks and the
curatorial frame.
Selection of artworks
I chose works works that, one way or
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I want to give my very sincere thanks to the 'moderators' who responded to
artworks: Lee Tusman, Robert Rapoport and Helena Haimes.
Also to the artists who contributed work: Benjamin Orlow, Bill Santen, Asta
Gröting, Johann Arens, Maia
the artist. I’m
EXTREMELY aware of the act of looking and being looked at (so many
people in this piece are participating in both). And ACUTELY involved
in the EXTREMELY gendered forms of looking.
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 7:12 AM Daniel Lichtman wrote:
>
> Jemima Stehli
> She Looks Back
contributors would have pursued this
path?
Best wishes,
Dan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:20 PM Daniel Lichtman
wrote:
> Hi Sergio,
> At risk of influencing (contaminating) your response to Ian's work, Ian
> wrote the following to me when I followed up with him:
>
> "I borr
esent" of the work--how are these emotions tied to or separate from
reaction to the history being told?
-is it empowering to the speakers to tell these stories? what would
empowerment mean in this circumstance? is the viewer empowered?
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 7:22 AM Daniel Lichtman wrote:
>
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Beth Collar's response to Eoghan Ryan's Moss Icon, Artwork #6. Collar's
Brainstem Thinking appeared as Artwork #8.
a stamp on the tongue of this cheeky man.
i think that’s not him talking. he doesn’t love us. he’s just staring into
a
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Jemima Stehli
She Looks Back — Jemima Stehli naked, films If Lucy fell, Ze Dos Bois,
Lisbon 27/11/09
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/188895395/10a8a93df5
Jemima Stehli, born 1961, lives and works in London. She recently exhibited
in the
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Beny Wagner
We're All Here
Video Link:
http://impakt.nl/channel/videos/beny-wagner-were-all-here-united-statesthe-netherlands-2016-1202-mins/
Beny Wagner is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Working in moving
image, text, installation
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Jessica Tsang
The end of an era
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/215162528
Password: Brunei
Jessica Tsang, b.1984 and raised in Brunei, is a London-based artist who
graduated from the Goldsmiths MFA in 2011. Recent exhibitions include
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Kerry Downey
Fishing With Angela
Link to video and documentation:
http://kerrydowney.com/videos--/fishing-with-angela/1
Kerry Downey (b.1979, Ft. Lauderdale) is a multidisciplinary artist whose
work draws relationships between states of
nets.com>
>> Watch ³Blued Trees²: https://vimeo.com/135290635
>> www.gulftogulf.org <http://www.gulftogulf.org/>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/8/18, 9:52 PM, "Daniel Lichtman" wrote:
>>
>> --empyre- soft-sk
it correspond to the
definition of erotics described by the man’s voice at the start of the
video?
-Erotics of ‘attitude’?
-a lot of juicy issues to put together in navigating this work!
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:32 PM Daniel Lichtman wrote:
> Eoghan Ryan
> Moss Icon
>
> Link to d
hat obviously is not so. That is a sterile way
> of approaching art.
>
> Ciao,
> Murat
>
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Daniel Lichtman
> wrote:
>
>> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
>> thank you for your response murat!!
it. When Kerry’s talking, looks like they’re talking directly to me,
the viewer of the video. The setup of the video puts the viewer in close
quarters with the various bodies, voices, movements, skills, histories,
actions, etc etc presented in the work.
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 10:29 PM Daniel Lichtman
is not
the video editor.
-i was wondering if credits would say music or sound—they say sound.
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 7:13 AM Daniel Lichtman wrote:
> Beny Wagner
> We're All Here
>
> Video Link:
> http://impakt.nl/channel/videos/beny-wagner-were-all-here-united-statesthe-netherlands
of maturity, struggle,
sense & none-sense, language & non-language. body and brain as echo-chamber
for voice as sound and voice as language. the brain really seems like a
chamber.
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 7:52 PM Daniel Lichtman wrote:
> Beth Collar
> Brainstem Thinking
>
> Video Lin
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Beth Collar
Brainstem Thinking
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/232861610
password: bread
Beth Collar is an artist working predominantly in performance and sculpture
or in the shared ground between them. She was born in Cambridge, England.
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh
Donkey rhubarb (speculative massage tools for a family of donkeys)
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/258391233
Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh is an interdisciplinary visual artist with an interest
in materiality and material and
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Another artwork that explores touch.
Johann Arens
Moulding Exclusivities
Video link: https://vimeo.com/223404129
Password: Empyre
Johann Arens (b. 1981, Aachen, Germany) uses installation and video to survey
the documentary properties
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Maia Conran
Meat
Video link: https://vimeo.com/163522502
Maia Conran lives and works in London and North Wales. She works primarily
in installation, moving image and performance. Voice, internet politics,
and ideas around ownership and
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Eoghan Ryan
Moss Icon
Link to documentation (see video MOSS_ICON.mp4):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/apwp220jn8polh1/AABwunEYjt_-rjY7hSqA8HWba?dl=0
Eoghan Ryan lives and works in Berlin. Selected shows, performances and
screenings have taken
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Response to Touch 2017
-don’t see sculptor’s head, only emerging clay head
-slow pace—demands attention, patience. forces time to look at emerging
head, evolving abstraction of face
-slow transformation of emotional expressions on face
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Response to Bill Santen - Dark Green
-camera on tripod. lights on stands casting shadows—amateur home TV studio
setup
-woman on camera talking to.. camera person? viewer?
-lyrical but clipped mode of speech. unclear (at early point in the
an aesthetic of the
conversation between the different I’s in the video—even if words and
sentences themselves fade into background.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:58 PM Daniel Lichtman
wrote:
> Robert Rapoport's response to Maia Conran's Meat
>
> -- Forwarded message ---
--empyre- soft-skinned space--This work relates thematically to the previous one, though with a very
different approach.
Bill Santen
Dark Green
Video link: https://vimeo.com/277913320
Bill Santen earned his MFA from Columbia University in 2011 and his BA from the
and feedback from the community based on
some of the same themes around multiplicities of body, voice discussed
here. I teach video art, art theory, art history and visual culture at SVA
and St Johns University.
Best wishes,
Daniel Lichtman
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 11:53 AM Jessica Posner wrote
boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au <
> empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of Daniel Lichtman <
> daniel...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 30, 2019 11:46:22 AM
> *To:* soft_skinned_space
> *Subject:* Re: [-empyre-] a
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyre subscribers,
I wanted to welcome anyone and everyone again to share any projects you're
working on that relate to networked collaboration, distributed storytelling
and digital community. Feel free to interpret these themes
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you for this great response, Maximilian. Really interesting to read
about the contingencies that shape the rhythms and contexts of viewers'
experience of the texts.
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:22 AM Maximilian Goldfarb <
its own as well as a result of the collected images and
> manipulations of the participants.
>
> Messlife opens for temporary events. In this body of documentation
> <http://accumulations.online/messlife.html>, images and video captured
> from the space can themselves be conside
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Cristina and Angeliki,
Thank you so much again for sharing Temporary Riparian Zone with the empyre
community! Here is the link to the TRZ project page:
http://accumulations.online/trz.html
I've just been listening to some of the
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Maximilian,
I wanted to ask you about the street audience for this project. How do
passersby engage with the messages on the sign? Do they stay and read a
whole piece, or just a fragment? Is there any way to know whether people
return
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks so much for your comments, William!
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:27 AM William Bain wrote:
> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
> Hello Daniel and Sophia,
>
> I just wanted briefly to say that the whole VRC
>
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre Community,
I wanted to introduce the next artist for this month, Lee Tusman, who will
present the generative visual output of the Messlife virtual space. Lee
will send an email introducing this project in more detail shortly.
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre,
I'm excited to announce our next guests this month, Angeliki Diakrousi
and Cristina Cochior and their project Temporary Riparian Zone. TRZ
explores methods of peer-to-peer "streaming", considering the hydrological
stream, or
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre Community,
I'm excited to introduce our last project, Atmosphere, organized by Elia
Vargas. Atmosphere is a speculative fiction exquisite corpse, written
collaboratively by many artist collaborators under shelter in place.
writing a sentence, starting with a HELO command!
> :)
>
>
> Let me know if you're interested in learning about email's past, what you
> think email's future is, or what role email plays in your life.
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Char
> ~~~
> "this beautiful cockro
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre community,
I want to introduce Char Stiles, who will be presenting the next project,
Email Rituals. I'll let Char tell you more about the project!
Char Stiles is an artist, educator and programmer based in Brooklyn NY. She
10, 2020 at 11:12 AM Angeliki Diakrousi
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your questions Dan! Nice to see your interpretation of TRZ. I
> respond from my side (inviting Cristina to continue the thread:)):
>
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 05:54, Daniel Lichtman wrote:
>
>>
ure, a community, a home, that provides mutual support and the
> possibility to prosper for all species-beings, then we must imagine new
> concepts, for the future, but really, for the present.
>
> https://accumulations.online/atmosphere.html
>
> — elia vargas
>
> On Tue, Dec 15,
esent communication as one that has only marginally changed since the
> invention of electricity and the telephone (see Carolin Marvin's excellent
> "When Old Technologies Were New").
>
> What I hope for is that these practices of networked community enact new
> concepts
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre Community,
This is a note to say we're closing down the Accumulations discussion for
this month. The exhibition, http://accumulations.online, will remain
online.
My heartfelt thanks to artists that contributed. I truly enjoyed
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Sophie and Sasha,
Thanks so much for sharing your project, Open Weather! To give the empyre
community some context about your work, I’m including your bios at the end
of this email. I love the sentence from your intro email,
oyal Holloway University of London
> www.sashaengelmann.com
> instagram: @sasha_intheair
> twitter: @sashacakes
>
> --
> *From:* Daniel Lichtman
> *Sent:* Monday, December 14, 2020 6:56 PM
> *To:* empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au <
> empyre@
the music in the video is also generative, though I edited
> the sound and images together for this excerpt.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 4:39 PM Daniel Lichtman
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for introducing this project, Lee!
>>
>> This project is a few yea
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Elia, as well as Angeliki, Cristina, Oscar, Simon, Matt, Sophia,
Benjamin, Rowan, Sameen, Philip, Lee, Char, Maximillian, Sophie and Sasha,
As a way of beginning to wrap up this month’s program, here is a question
to Elia, and all of
> i wish you all a peaceful festive season & a "guten rutsch" as the germans
> say (i'm in munich) - literally a "good slide" into the new year.
>
> helen : )
> On 03.12.20 19:07, Daniel Lichtman wrote:
>
> --empyre- soft-skinned space
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre list,
Firstly, thank you to Renate Ferro and Timothy Murray for having me as
moderator this month! We have known each other for many years since I was a
student at Cornell and I have thoroughly enjoyed being involved in a
--empyre- soft-skinned space--___
Welcome to November 2020 on –empyre- soft-skinned space:
Moderated by Daniel Lichtman
In lieu of weekly guests we will be inviting guest artists to introduce
current projects
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyre Community,
I wanted to follow up on Matt’s post introducing View Recent Changes, and
ask the artists about a few specific elements of this project that really
stand out to me.
First, about “I’m Feeling Lucky”, which consists
Nov 17, 2020 at 12:54 PM Matt Nish-Lapidus wrote:
> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
> Hi empyre--
>
> On Nov 16, 2020, at 4:17 PM, Daniel Lichtman wrote:
>
> how you see the relation between human and AI generated poetry? What
> hap
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you Sophia!
Here is the project Sophia is talking about:
https://recentchanges.ca/A_Hostility_Index
"so in response, we tried to make pages that are intentionally strange and
complicated to navigate in order to draw attention to the
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks so much for sharing our next project, Maximilian!
***Here is a corrected link to the project on the Accumulations website:
https://accumulations.online/reports.html
For some context, here is Maximiliian's artist biography:
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