Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 191, Issue 19 - The Flow of Images in Contemporary Urban Space

2021-05-31 Thread Isaac Sullivan
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Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 191, Issue 18

2021-05-28 Thread Rebecca Rouse
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Shama, I am fascinated by your discussion of time, flow, and space in urban environments. This is especially interesting to think about over the course of the past year, as trajectories within and between urban spaces have altered a

[-empyre-] -empyre- ALL CALL: share your projects with us

2021-04-18 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi all, Just a reminder to share your projects with us this month. It's an open call just a chance for you to post about your recent projects, writings, publications, etc. See below. Also share images on our new Instagram and ma

[-empyre-] -empyre- event in zoom space- Friday, March 19, 9:30 AM NY Time

2021-03-18 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- -empyre- has touched down in real space at various times since 2002 but tomorrow do not miss our special zoom event. Please register via the zoom link below. Program below. See you all tomorrow. Renate 2021 Mini-Conference sponsored by

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 186, Issue 2

2020-12-05 Thread Adam Zaretsky
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Well there is this: biPolar Bioart: USDA APHIS FDA BRS notification request *Adam Zaretsky* http://drainmag.com/bipolar-bioart-usda-aphis-fda-brs-notification-request/ *APHIS @ the FDA:* I took the time to ask the United States Department o

Re: [-empyre-] Empyre: Incident Report

2020-11-24 Thread Daniel Lichtman
--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 an

Re: [-empyre-] Empyre: Incident Report

2020-11-22 Thread Daniel Lichtman
--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: Maximili

[-empyre-] Empyre: Incident Report

2020-11-18 Thread Maximilian Goldfarb
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyre community, I'd like to introduce a current project of Incident Report, which is a small presentation space in Hudson, NY, currently inhabiting the storefront of the Flow Chart Foundation. For more than a decade, Incident Report

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 185, Issue 6

2020-11-17 Thread Daniel Lichtman
--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

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 185, Issue 6

2020-11-16 Thread Sophia Oppel
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre list, Sophia here, one of the artists involved in the Recent Changes online exhibition. I wanted to share a bit of information about the thinking behind my collaboration with Benjamin de Boer: a hostility index! A hostility

[-empyre-] -empyre- is here for you- sharing for week one in NOVEMBER.

2020-11-11 Thread Nina Sobell
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello all Empyre subscribers, I am please to announce that my visual book UNSEEN was very recently published by Louffa Press. Please go to www.louffapress.net/news for a video excerpt of the web launch

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- is here for you- sharing for week one in NOVEMBER.

2020-11-05 Thread Annie Abrahams
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Of interest for some: Article by Geert Lovink: "The anatomy of Zoom fatigue" https://www.eurozine.com/the-anatomy-of-zoom-fatigue Intro: "*Covid has flooded our lives with online encounters and interactions. We work, minding our image on s

[-empyre-] -empyre- is here for you- sharing for week one in NOVEMBER.

2020-11-02 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello -empyre- subscribers, Dan Lichtman will be moderating this month, but in the meantime we will keep our OCTOBER open call alive: -empyre- tactics and strategies in the age of Corona Virus. We ordinarily pick up our monthly dis

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 182, Issue 25

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick Lichty
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello, Ali. Great points. In cases of using eTurks or “cheaper" outsourced labor, the digital realm becomes a force multiplier for exploitation while sanitizing it at an arms length. Yes, and I think that in doing "some" work through th

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 182, Issue 25

2020-05-31 Thread Ali Seradge
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I would like to piggy back on what Patrick Lichty was saying maybe tie it in to Alejandro and KT’s ideas of a democratizing and “leveling” facilitated by digital media. It is seems like we are bringing the hierarchies and biases that we

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 182, Issue 25

2020-05-30 Thread Patrick Lichty
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello, all - from this lurking regular. I have thoroughly enjoyed this month, and cannot really address everything from the notions of representation in Iranian culture (my partner being Tehrani), to the ideas being based around the trope

Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] COVID Sonata, Movement 1, Allegro

2020-04-29 Thread Kathy High
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello Tim, Thank you for this response and for bringing Beatriz into this discussion. Her work was always prescient and also remains deeply moving still today. Beatriz and I were close friends and we spoke about her pending death often.

Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] COVID Sonata, Movement 1, Allegro

2020-04-28 Thread Annie Mcclanahan
t: Sunday, April 26, 2020 2:08 PM To: empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au<mailto:empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> mailto:empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] COVID and circulation workers This message originated from outside the Ithaca College emai

Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] COVID Sonata, Movement 1, Allegro

2020-04-28 Thread Timothy Conway Murray
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi Kathy, Your proposal to create a "death tool kit" brings so clearly to mind the final projects on which Beatriz da Costa labored at the end of her iife (many of our participants might not realize that Beatriz -- a pioneering bio and t

Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] COVID Sonata, Movement 1, Allegro

2020-04-28 Thread Kathy High
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear friends, I write this contribution on the heels of just reading Patricia's amazing Movement 1: Allegro... I had started writing something else. But was so deeply moved by P's text and stories that I have started again. Thank you for

Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] COVID Sonata, Movement 1, Allegro

2020-04-27 Thread Patricia Zimmermann
vironmental Film Festival Ithaca College 953 Danby Road Ithaca, New York 14850 USA http://faculty.ithaca.edu:83/patty/ http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Johannes Birringer Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020

Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] COVID and circulation workers

2020-04-26 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear Annie McClanahan, dear all thank you for your wonderful posting on circulations and circulation work(ers), it was inspiring, with its critical edges and its drawing attention to the logistics business too, the circulation management.

[-empyre-] [-Empyre-] What does it mean to think ahead of the Covid Curve?

2020-04-17 Thread Premesh Lalu
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I write from Cape Town, South Africa (SA), and more specifically, from the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The SA state acted quickly to ensure a national lockdown under very difficult circum

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 176, Issue 6

2019-11-11 Thread Oliver Kellhammer
--empyre- soft-skinned space--There is considerable grief for me in considering the posthuman and the ruderal is clearly what comes after we are done wringing value from the biosphere. 'Value' that is as *we* define it and not in any a priori sense. But that scorched ear

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 176, Issue 6

2019-11-08 Thread marisa prefer
--empyre- soft-skinned space--> > so lovely to hear more about your projects, WhiteFeather. what became of your prayer bundles? what you describe seems like an incredibly important step & integral element of practicing a ruderal witchcraft: :: the slowness and conjuring

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 175, Issue 11

2019-10-14 Thread Margaret Rhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you Kenji, Lynne, Truong, and Maria for your illuminations on poetry and play. I find myself wanting to stay with these insights and observations : Considering Kenji’s playful process of “Frankenpo” of erasure, collage, graphic design

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 175, Issue 13

2019-10-14 Thread Truong Tran
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Maria, Thanks for the inquiry. In answer to your question, it is not my shame. It is the premise of shame that is so often the expectation. It is the performance of otherness. Not that I am inclined to perform. Truong On Sat, Oct 12, 2

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 175, Issue 11

2019-10-11 Thread Truong Tran
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I have been thinking a lot about play in my own work. I play with language to get to a deeper understanding of my own relationship to the written word. I play with materials in an attempt to get at what’s hidden inside. I play to think thro

Re: [-empyre-] --empyre- joins the celebration of the history of the listserv- empyre, crumb, faces, specter, nettle

2019-09-08 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- A huge shout out to Shu Lea Cheang for organizing the five hour radio event via STWST and ARS electronica. On behalf of the entire -empyre- listserv thank you Shulea. We are looking forward to three more weeks of Shulea's moderation of

Re: [-empyre-] --empyre- joins the celebration of the history of the listserv- empyre, crumb, faces, specter, nettime

2019-09-08 Thread Tracey M Benson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--wonderful - so much richness <3 Regards Tracey -- Dr Tracey M Benson || Bytetime Media Founder: Treecreate.org On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 1:44 AM Renate Ferro wrote: > --empyre- soft

Re: [-empyre-] --empyre- joins the celebration of the history of the listserv- empyre, crumb, faces, specter, nettime

2019-09-07 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- So sorry to our friends and Nettime-- the subject heading was not completed as one of the t's was left out. So happy and thankful to Shulea Cheang who bring our structures together: -empyre-, crumb, faces, spectre, and nettime. Tim and

[-empyre-] --empyre- joins the celebration of the history of the listserv- empyre, crumb, faces, specter, nettle

2019-09-06 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Some may say the listserv is dead. But is it? Since 2002 -empyre- has existed as an online platform global community of new media artists, curators, theorists, producers, and others who participate in monthly thematic discussions. -e

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 169, Issue 14

2019-03-29 Thread shirin fahimi
--empyre- soft-skinned space--(Shirin Fahimi) Hello Empyre community, Thanks to Lola and Sarah for inviting me to take part for this week conversation on COLLECTIVITY + WORLD-BUILDING I do apologize for the late and rushed reply, I had to travel to Chicago this week a

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 3: Hackability of the body

2019-03-23 Thread High, Kathy
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi Empyre and my esteemed colleagues, Forgive my delayed response this week. I am head of my arts department at present and, as a result, often my time is not my own! I thank you all for these interesting comments by Camille and Lee and

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 3: Hackability of the body

2019-03-21 Thread Lee Blalock
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello everyone, Forgive me for my mid-week delay in responding. My own body decided to be ill on Monday. I'm heavily dosed with DayQuil. I'm Lee, the author of the modified buddha piece in the Refiguring the Future exhibition. My practice d

[-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 3: Hackability of the body.

2019-03-20 Thread Camilla Rostvik
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello everyone, The question of access to the body is such an interesting one. As a historian of the menstrual cycle, this makes me think of the long history of ‘hacking the cycle’ and hormonal contraceptive. The menstrual cycle has been

[-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 3: Hackability of the body

2019-03-18 Thread Lola Martinez
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Last week’s reflections on accessibility offered insights from creative utilizations of digital platforms to perspectives on world-building. Following these insights, we continue onto week 3 with conversation on Refiguring the Future’s expl

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 2: In/Visibility feature

2019-03-14 Thread Anneli Anne Goeller
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello empyre, I am honored to be contributing this week, to be in conversation with Ezra Benus and Yidan Zeng, and I would like to thank Lola Martinez and Sarah Watson for inviting me. I was a panelist during the Refiguring the Future confer

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 2: In/Visibility feature

2019-03-14 Thread Yidan Zeng
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Many thanks to Lola and Sarah for inviting me to contribute as a guest this week, alongside Ezra and Anneli, who both are doing such amazing work! As mentioned in my bio, my entry into the world of digital accessibility happened during the

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 2: In/Visibility feature

2019-03-14 Thread Ezra Benus
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi empyre community- My name is Ezra Benus and I’m a disabled artist and educator, and worked with Lola and Sarah for Refiguring the Future. thank you to Lola and Sarah for inviting me to respond and add to this conversation. More info on

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 1: Exhibition as Ecosystem

2019-03-11 Thread Theresa Ramseyer
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Being a layperson with little or no art knowledge, I'm here to learn, is such a slowing down really a possibility? Especially for small galleries, and those outside the "big cities"? In Sarah's first posting, she talks about the lack of tim

[-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 2: In/Visibility feature

2019-03-11 Thread Lola Martinez
--empyre- soft-skinned spaceempyre- soft-skinned space-- Following last week’s reflections on the exhibition as an ecosystem, we continue onto week 2 with conversation on Refiguring the Future’s engagement with accessibility. Sciences an

[-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 1: Exhibition as Ecosystem

2019-03-10 Thread Dorothy Santos
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Everyone, Thank you, Sarah and Lola, for inviting us to respond to Week 1: Exhibition as Ecosystem. I wanted to start with question Heather posed at the end of her reflection, "What does a radically inclusive future look like?" W

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 1: Exhibition as Ecosystem

2019-03-10 Thread Sarah Watson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I have been thinking about Heather's question "What does a radically inclusive future look like?" And as a response, I'd like to pose a question back, one that come from the text “On Slow Institutions” by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, published

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 1: Exhibition as Ecosystem

2019-03-06 Thread Heather Dewey-Hagborg
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello everyone, It is a pleasure to join you in this discussion, and share a bit about REFRESH, the collective Dorothy and I participate in, as well as "Refiguring the Future" our inaugural exhibition and conference, and some of my personal

Re: [-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 1: Exhibition as Ecosystem

2019-03-05 Thread Lola Martinez
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- First and foremost, many thanks to Sarah for inviting me to co-moderate and to Renate who gave us this platform to continue our conversations around Refiguring the Future. As the Eyebeam/REFRESH Curatorial and Engagement Fellow, I am invol

[-empyre-] [–empyre–] Refiguring the Future, Week 1: Exhibition as Ecosystem

2019-03-04 Thread Sarah Watson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Since "Refiguring the Future" opened on February 8 at the Hunter College Art Galleries' 205 Hudson Gallery, I have more or less been living with the exhibition: turning it on and off, tending to misbehaving technology, spending focused time

[-empyre-] -empyre-soft-skinned space is looking for subscribers who want to host a monthly topic

2019-03-03 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome back to –empyre-soft-skinned space. Before we introduce out topic for March this is an all-call for any subscriber who would like to organize a monthly topic for 2019. Please send an email with the topic description, what month

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

2018-11-11 Thread Elizabeth Wijaya
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Kate: "What fascinates me here is the intersection of multiple temporal vectors: A personal, phenomenological experience of passage, a continuous reassessment of authoritative historical narratives and momentous encounters with seemingly uni

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

2018-11-08 Thread Kate Brettkelly
--empyre- soft-skinned space--1. Maybe there is also such a thing as mountain time that's inhabited and experienced differently by people attracted to mountains for the sublime/universal time or as in Chiang's film, for the duration of survival 2. In this case, duration

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

2018-11-08 Thread Stirling Newberry
--empyre- soft-skinned space--> Along the lines of plastic arts, I'm also wondering whether the counter-to-deep time of indigenous art might not signal something different both in apparatus and epistemology? The space also has differing viewpoints, as does every individ

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

2018-11-07 Thread Timothy Conway Murray
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Elizabeth Wijaya wrote "On Kate's point on deep time and the danger of obscuring/forgetting historical subjugation and social inequality, maybe there is also such a thing as mountain time that's inhabited and experienced differently by p

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

2018-11-07 Thread Elizabeth Wijaya
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you Tim for the introduction! Today, my experience of time was: seasonal—watching the snow fall with inward panic outside my Minneapolis apartment window; political—compressed into the anxiety of election time unrolling according to

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 162, Issue 4

2018-06-07 Thread Anna Scime
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi everyone, Thank you Shu Lea for inviting me to participate, and thank you to -empyre for hosting this discussion. I look forward to helping to flesh out MNS and exploring where this mycelial network takes us! My point of entry into MNS

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 159, Issue 18 (Sarah Simpson)

2018-03-21 Thread Noralyn Neumark
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, Thanks Sarah and Nicholas — great to join you in this week’s discussion. I was fascinated with Nicholas’ working with matter and the wonderful Jane Bennett and Karen Barad! I really responded to the point that > >> the shouts of

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 159, Issue 18 (Sarah Simpson)

2018-03-21 Thread Sarah Simpson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello everyone and thank you for including me! It's exciting to hear all the different ways we are approaching and thinking about these topics. My interest in noise and communication is more related to word art created by obsolete technolo

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 159, Issue 14

2018-03-17 Thread Wenhua Shi
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thank you for Xname’s wonderful thread. Is noise ontologically anti establishment? I find the question interesting to consider. John Cage wrote, "Noises (underdog); changing music and society”. I particularly like the underdog descrip

[-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 159, Issue 14

2018-03-16 Thread Sarah Simpson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- In response to xname's post, namely the section at the end, I wanted to bring up a question of the difference between nonsense and noise and how these relate to levels of understanding. By asking if the posted link is signal or noise and th

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- pyres and family romances

2018-02-15 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I read it but I didn’t think it was a matter to continue the discussion further. Sorry if I didn’t continue the conversation! (If I and you are talking about the same post :) You can post it back channel to my own address :) Cheers Ana ons

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- pyres and family romances

2018-02-14 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Ana, I had posted a response t your post of a few days ago. I wonder if it got lost with your own post. Ciao, Murat On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Ana Valdés wrote: > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Dear a

Re: [-empyre-] Empyre

2018-02-13 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Jake, welcome to Empire list. A response to your question: Emyre has lasted that long because disagreements and discussions are permitted and even welcomed in it. Though you will see Empty has its own up and down rhythm over a period of t

[-empyre-] Empyre

2018-02-13 Thread Jake Puglisi
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello, My name is Jake Puglisi. I'm currently a sophomore at Cornell University enrolled in Renate Ferro's digital media class. Before this semester I have had no know knowledge of what a listserv or how it works, so I'm excited to be apart

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-13 Thread Timothy Conway Murray
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi, Christina, Johannes’ post helped me discover that your post too was cycled into my ‘clutter’ by dear Microsoft. Yeah, one of the coolest experiments you launched was letting non-English speakers publish in their home languages – I r

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- pyres and family romances

2018-02-13 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all I didn’t want to seem blasé or disappointed when I posted about my deception or disappointing for the lack of answers. As an old -empyrean :) I do remember months of intense exchange and months of silence or tiredness. But it’s as l

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- pyres and family romances

2018-02-13 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Many thanks Johannes for your participation over the years. And thanks Simon for postiing again. It was never ever my intention to insult Simon Taylor as I mentioned to him in a personal email back channel last week. For those of you t

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- pyres and family romances

2018-02-13 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all I am also confused about the less than moderate comments received, and I had already exchanged a puzzled letter with Simon Taylor down at Waiheke Island, who I felt was insulted, and feeling ashamed a bit that I am/I was not mo

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 158, Issue 9

2018-02-13 Thread Catherine Daly
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Ana, It is true, what you say -- I think perhaps old list serves, like bulletin boards before them, and perhaps group blogs are more conducive social media to have a conversation around/about -- when things get serious (thoughtful, consider

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-12 Thread Simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Renate, <>, I am confused about your introduction to my post: I am verbose? I am also to the point. I am incomprehensible? I am also direct. I am powerfully political. I am nonsensical. Poetic. ... I write to you as a recent PhD.

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-07 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
mpyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Ana Valdés Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 7:08 PM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane --empyre- soft-ski

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- 2018, a trip down

2018-02-07 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all if we were to look forward before remembering/looking back at the early days, what would we see? and why this discussion now, February 2018, what new era? there were comments made by colleagues here that were of course truly

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-06 Thread melinda rackham
Ana Valdés > Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 7:08 PM > To: soft_skinned_space > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane > > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > > ___ > empyr

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-06 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Renate, for the comments around the aesthetics of early days -empyre- and the quote in which I compare -empyre- to an Ant Farm inflatable! When I started moderating in 2002, I sometimes posted as Christina McPhee and sometimes as n

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-06 Thread patrick lichty
] On Behalf Of Ana Valdés Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 7:08 PM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane --empyre- soft-skinned space-- ___ empyre forum empyre

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-06 Thread Ana Valdés
> -Original Message- > From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au > [mailto:empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Renate > Terese Ferro > Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:15 AM > To: soft_skinned_space > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down m

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-06 Thread patrick lichty
mpyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au [mailto:empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Renate Terese Ferro Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:15 AM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane --empyre- soft-ski

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-05 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hey Ricardo. So glad you mentioned nettime.org and thank you for posting this post from February 26th 1998 nearly twenty years ago. Talking about history I have enlisted twelve of my Introduction to Digital Media students to join us thi

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-05 Thread Ricardo Rene Dominguez
___ From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Renate Terese Ferro Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:40:11 PM To: 1067pacificpeo...@gmail.com; soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane --empy

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-05 Thread melinda rackham
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello to the empyrean, I am always a little reticent to talk about -empyre- as I often think I have nothing new to say on the topic, however this discussion has rekindled an old intent with a new perspective. I have just finished an essa

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello Andrea, Absolutely loved your participation a few months ago and so glad you have joined in on –empyre-. Many of us in the North America will be making it to Los Angeles to the College Art Association. If anyone from –empyre- lis

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Simon from New Zealand, Your verbose nonsensical yet poetic and powerfully political rants threaded together, to the point, never dull but always provocative, sometimes incomprehensible, yet direct, welcomed today from Ithaca, col

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Therea, For sure –empyre- will not be slowing down. We will be announcing our international Editorial Board in just a few weeks and are working on an updated and more usable website. Looking forward to more certainly. Renate Re

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-04 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello List, Many hanks to Empyre for all the hard work! Specifically atthe moment thanks to Teresa and Therese for the commentson keeping up and options for doing so. I think the archivesare a very important tool. The amount of information

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-04 Thread Simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 04/02/18 07:08, Timothy Conway Murray wrote: (it's cold and snowy but beautifully sunny in Ithaca, New York, today) cicadas & humid grey skies Waiheke Island, New Zealand, today. 2 boys killed in flashflooding in the Waitakere ranges,

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-04 Thread Theresa Ramseyer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Morning, I have been thinking. I should have added that I don't want -empyre- to slow down. Have a good day. Theresa ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cor

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-04 Thread Andrea Haenggi
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello longtime empyreans, Being very new to this community since winter 2017 I enjoy that this is an online listserv because it is devoted to *discussing *things. Facebook is about to popularize an idea and if you start a Twitter (with its

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello empyreans, To all of you historians and fans of early coding I found this post that Melinda wrote in describing the technology behind this online community of –empyre-. If you were an innovator in coding early online listserv’s, c

[-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-03 Thread Timothy Conway Murray
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi, all, it’s very interesting to think about the duration of –empyre- and the particular intervention of the listserv. Next fall, I’ll be moderating a month on “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival” in conjunction with the Biennial

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-03 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- February 3, 2018 Hello Theresa, Your comment echoes what Tim Murray, our other long -term moderator here, and I have been hearing from so many of our subscribers. The tempo of the listserv can move exceedingly too fast. We all can ackn

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-03 Thread Theresa Ramseyer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Evening, My computer-internet connection is still dial-up. It is unusable for the moment, for various reasons. My phone is now my main connection, but I can't get everything. Instagram, for example, is always a blank page. Many times I'll

[-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-02 Thread Renate Terese Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello all, I hope you will take some time away to post a few thoughts. Is a listserv the most efficient way in 2018 for a group of over 2000 artists, media theorists, coders, technologists, curators and others to discuss issues evolving

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol154, Issue 4 (Joline Blais)

2017-10-15 Thread margaretha haughwout
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello all, Thank you William and Joline for your recent posts. To add to the conceptions of kinship articulated here, and that perhaps come to us most familiarly from Haraway, I'd love to share Kim TallBear's work on queer kinship. TallBear

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol154, Issue 4 (Joline Blais)

2017-10-15 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyre, I just wanted to pick up on Margaretha's mention ofpermaculture, which I see as relating to the conceptof sustainability and, as Randall commented in relationto that, to regenerativity. I read the link Joline sentand feel li

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 154, Issue 4

2017-10-14 Thread Joline Blais
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear empyre kin, I’ll be coming on during week 4, but wanted to offer some response to imagining kin, which has been very important to me. I grew up in a small French-Canadian city in Maine—with some Indigenous culture/blood in m

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 154, Issue 6

2017-10-09 Thread Brian Karl
yerman > Street Cat Photo Booth: twitter.com/streetcatphotos > > > > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:07:38 -0400 > From: Murat Nemet-Nejat > To: soft_skinned_space > Subject: Re: [

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 154, Issue 4

2017-10-09 Thread Elaine Gan
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear M and all, I inadvertently, but perhaps more interestingly, triggered something by saying "I don't want to grieve." As Margaretha and Lissette wisely point out, it wasn't really my main point, but maybe worth a few sentences now to cla

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 154, Issue 4

2017-10-09 Thread margaretha haughwout
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Elaine, and all -- Of course, who wants to grieve? But also, how can we make kin in the absence of grief? I can't help but think that if we don't grieve we are trapped in anxiety that keeps us away from the present and away from others. Oth

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 154, Issue 4

2017-10-08 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Brian, where are you writing from? Ciao, Murat On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Elaine Gan wrote: > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > > Thanks so much, Margaretha, for bringing us together around these great

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 154, Issue 4

2017-10-08 Thread Brian Karl
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I've been dipping in and out of Charles Foster's "Being a Beast" of late (sub-title: "Adventures Across the Species Divide"), in which he rather literally tries to embody a phenomenological experience closer to that of a badger, an otter, a

[-empyre-] [-empyre] Biology & Art

2017-02-21 Thread Tarsh Bates
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Heyo soft-skinners Thanks so much Byron, Lindsay and Kathy (and Nina) for your contributions. I oscillate between struggle with and adoring the absurdity of the world and we seem to be in a very absurdist time. I find myself despairing

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- STRIKES BACK

2017-02-03 Thread Timothy Conway Murray
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello, -empyreans-, Given the general paralysis wrought internationally by the Trumpocalypse (and Chinese New Year), we'll be extending our call for -empyre- STRIKES BACK through the first week of February. Please post your political, soc

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