[-empyre-] Re: Models and Perspectives for Media Centers and Net Art organizations

2008-08-26 Thread Simon Biggs
of artistic media that requires they are constantly challenged and pushed in order that new types of art and new relationships between people can be forged. Regards Simon Professor Simon Biggs edinburgh college of art [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.eca.ac.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.littlepig.org.uk AIM

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 50, Issue 15

2009-01-17 Thread Simon Biggs
conceptual art denying/celebrating itself as an idea... Yet they are all different and are part of history according to the very names that make them identifiable as discourses within art practice and its history. Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk

[-empyre-] Gross materiality

2009-01-17 Thread Simon Biggs
, even the support (canvas). it is, for the most part, a physical context that cannot be separated from the digital content, critically, functionally and historically. Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si

Re: [-empyre-] Julian Oliver: Resolution for Digital Futures

2009-01-19 Thread Simon Biggs
. The question is whether we agree (or disagree) that there is something particular about an art that employs computation as fundamental to its raison d¹etre (by which I mean the process of computation is the art ­ not any secondary artefact associated with it). regards Simon Simon Biggs Research

[-empyre-] to all members: what is e-poetry to you

2009-03-06 Thread Simon Biggs
is digital poetry. Simply using a computer to make something does not make that thing digital in its mediality. Regards Simon On 6/3/09 01:00, empyre-requ...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au empyre-requ...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au wrote: this is epoetry: http://vimeo.com/3431670 Simon Biggs Research

[-empyre-] Towards a theory of digital poetics (in process and open to debate - in the bar)

2009-03-08 Thread Simon Biggs
, then the work of YHCHI is as poetically digital as Mez¹s work is digitally poetic. Regards Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk Edinburgh College

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

2009-03-11 Thread Simon Biggs
and disappointment.) Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201

Re: [-empyre-] jig-sound

2009-03-31 Thread Simon Biggs
Reminds me of my first VCS3 ­ after dinner! Nice. Simon On 31/3/09 02:00, Jim Andrews wrote: here's a shockwave interactive audio piece i'm working on at the mo: http://vispo.com/temp/jigsoundArteroids2b.htm called jig-sound. Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 53, Issue 31

2009-04-28 Thread Simon Biggs
. This is not only to be able to develop a considered response or position but to decouple from events and establish a degree of otherness in relation to what is in effect mass-hysteria. Being in the midst of it you will never see what is going on ... Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college

Re: [-empyre-] Returning to Relational Aesthetics, Queerly

2009-07-05 Thread Simon Biggs
things happen in a highly mediated world. Bourriaud¹s book seems, in this context, a rather late comer to the demolition of modern tropes and narrowly constrained to a very specific readership. Regards Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk

Re: [-empyre-] Returning to Relational Aesthetics, Queerly

2009-07-06 Thread Simon Biggs
(I hope that by writing that I do not invoke the opposite). Regards Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk From: Johannes Birringer johannes.birrin

Re: [-empyre-] First Theme and Guests - the Thickness of the Screen

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Biggs
is not a medium. The medium of literature is print. Film is a medium but only if you're talking about the film that you wind up on spools. The wider class of film or cinema is a collection of various media. Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk

Re: [-empyre-] First Theme and Guests - the Thickness of the Screen

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Biggs
can refer to my writings, found in the textworks section of my website (url in my signature). There are plenty of theorists following this line of thought, from Latour and Law to Hayles, etc. It¹s not new and has its roots in venerable post-structuralist discourse. Best Simon Simon Biggs Research

Re: [-empyre-] First Theme and Guests - the Thickness of the Screen

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Biggs
Is the screen thus a sub-set of the family of mirrors ­ or mirrors a sub-set of screens ­ or neither? Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk From: Julian

Re: [-empyre-] First Theme and Guests - the Thickness of the Screen

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Biggs
Benjamin¹s notion of the ³aura² could be regarded as an attempt to identify the immaterial social dimension augmenting the material. I address just this in a 1991 essay Culture, Technology and Creativity (at my url). Best Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi

Re: [-empyre-] liminal screenality - a critical opera in three shots and a walking poem

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Biggs
The mind¹s eye made material. Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk From: Ricardo Dominguez rrdoming...@ucsd.edu Peek at: http://spectrum.ieee.org

Re: [-empyre-] point of clarification

2009-10-14 Thread Simon Biggs
Migrate away ... The duck¹s are flying (have flown) South here as well... Best Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk

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

2010-01-04 Thread Simon Biggs
and the ultimate outcome of agreeing to disagree. Best Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments CIRCLE research group www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk

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

2010-01-05 Thread Simon Biggs
been. Skateboarding culture binds people together as much as the opera. The creative forms that are skateboarding and opera are incidental to the social operations executed as creativity. In this context what is good or bad? Can one conceive of bad social contracts? Best Simon Simon Biggs

Re: [-empyre-] complicit post

2010-01-05 Thread Simon Biggs
cannot imagine how the forms of social organisation we have entertained to date will help. Best Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments CIRCLE research group www.eca.ac.uk

Re: [-empyre-] some thoughts on complicity

2010-01-09 Thread Simon Biggs
Yes, I agree. That¹s why I said it is complicated... Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments CIRCLE research group www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Biggs
data-tagging). This is profoundly different to what is required to analyse the existence of a text ³in reading². Sorry to be off-topic again. Best Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk Creative Interdisciplinary Research

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Biggs
(interesting) piece implicitly did that. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-07 Thread Simon Biggs
and medicine). I would still argue that what is being presented as ³cultural analytics² will fail in its objectives without accounting for the reception (contextualised and/or inter-textual reading) of artefacts as well as their formal and material existence. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi

Re: [-empyre-] CG and all things fuzzy

2010-02-13 Thread Simon Biggs
. But this is a certain type of animation, dominated by models found on TV, in the cinema and more and more in computer games. There are other models of animation (such as that practiced by Larry Cuba, for one). Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http

Re: [-empyre-] CG and all things fuzzy

2010-02-15 Thread Simon Biggs
then this is not it, as there is no attempt at realism. In the digital domain an artist I mentioned in an earlier post, Larry Cuba, is a good example of a medium specific approach. Another animator occupying an almost unique position is Len Lye. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si

Re: [-empyre-] chris sullivan p.S.

2010-02-20 Thread Simon Biggs
/index.htm demonstrates such a project. I am not sure if any of the work above is animation (perhaps an earlier work, like A New Life, borders on it) but I know all of these works use common techniques from animation. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk

Re: [-empyre-] interpreting datasets from science and natureinanimation (Richard)

2010-02-23 Thread Simon Biggs
the intended framework. I have only seen Ikeda¹s work in documentation and heard his music. He would have fitted into the Decode show very well. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art

Re: [-empyre-] interpreting datasets ..data viz decode real time..stanza

2010-02-25 Thread Simon Biggs
in relation to your recent posting that would be insightful. stanza www.stanza.co.uk sta...@sublime.net I'm hoping we can get Golan's piece working shortly. I'll let you know. -- Helen On Feb 23, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Simon Biggs wrote: I saw the Decode show. I think it is a good case

[-empyre-] Time...

2010-02-26 Thread Simon Biggs
and our memory of them. at: Wednesday 3 March 2010, 4.30-5.30 pm If you are around please drop in. It¹s free. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk

Re: [-empyre-] animation and short term memory (was, a long time ago: interpreting datasets, etc)

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Biggs
work is more to my taste. Some of it reminded me of the early Vasulka¹s. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research

Re: [-empyre-] animation and short term memory (was, a long time ago: interpreting datasets, etc)

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Biggs
;) Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic

Re: [-empyre-] animation and short term memory (was, a long time ago: interpreting datasets, etc)

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Biggs
I didn¹t say 50/50. Sometimes somebody gives more. One hopes it is the artist, but it isn¹t always the case. In fact, most of the time I get the feeling I am giving more than I am receiving when it comes to popular media. Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk

Re: [-empyre-] the man as a prototype - the limits of open source

2010-03-17 Thread Simon Biggs
in control of local communities? I accept this is not a black and white issue but I know where I stand on this. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative

[-empyre-] The Power of Nightmares

2010-03-28 Thread Simon Biggs
whether the actions they proposed to take in response had any effect. The fact that their deliberations and actions pre-date the Scottish Executive email below by a good period of time shows that they made no difference. What would? Best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype

Re: [-empyre-] The Power of Nightmares

2010-03-31 Thread Simon Biggs
will inquire as to why. I think this important information that should be in the pubic domain and not just in newspapers. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http

Re: [-empyre-] The Power of Nightmares

2010-03-31 Thread Simon Biggs
From: Christiane Robbins c...@mindspring.com Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:25:50 -0700 To: Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk, soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] The Power of Nightmares Hi Simon - Sadly, this is not news to many professors in the States, especially

Re: [-empyre-] The Power of Nightmares

2010-04-03 Thread Simon Biggs
That is one possible response. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http

Re: [-empyre-] Process as paradigm

2010-05-11 Thread Simon Biggs
of understanding and imagining the world. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http

Re: [-empyre-] Process as paradigm

2010-05-15 Thread Simon Biggs
of it. That is where cybernetics fell down. Thus I would argue that process cannot be paradigmatic. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary

Re: [-empyre-] Process as paradigm

2010-05-22 Thread Simon Biggs
world, human history, the larger world, etc. As such, agency is not a property of things but of relationships. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-07 Thread Simon Biggs
On behalf of Julian Oliver ..on Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:04:26AM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote: I am hoping it is possible to find another way through this maze. It would seem many in this discussion agree that creativity and identity are intrinsically linked. Some seem to accept

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-08 Thread Simon Biggs
The notion of creativity as a social ontology need not be considered only from an idealistic position. Foucault's panopticon is an expression of social creativity and collective (un-)consciousness too. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-08 Thread Simon Biggs
...and revealing. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology, ...stanza to simon biggs ----off list email

2010-07-08 Thread Simon Biggs
. This can be seen as social and individual formation, like other similar social dynamics, such as inclusion in a group (or exclusion), common language, sub-cultural codes, etc. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk

[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology: week 2 discussants

2010-07-11 Thread Simon Biggs
Creativity as a social ontology is moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus), edinburgh college of art. Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology: UpStage

2010-07-12 Thread Simon Biggs
to the discussion as it now progresses into its second week. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 9

2010-07-14 Thread Simon Biggs
as the quotidian. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread Simon Biggs
Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread Simon Biggs
with a simultaneous particularity and indifference to that which they are mediating. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread Simon Biggs
Is going ontological similar to going nuclear? Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-17 Thread Simon Biggs
isn't rigorous. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle

Re: [-empyre-] Furtherfield: people and communities

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Biggs
Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-22 Thread Simon Biggs
geographically specific, like Green Lanes in London, or distributed. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative

[-empyre-] FW: Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-22 Thread Simon Biggs
geographically specific, like Green Lanes in London, or distributed. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-24 Thread Simon Biggs
community and centre without being appropriated is a testament not only to their capability and tenacity but also their ethical clarity. So, I think what is of potential interest here is not the similarities between CHiT and Furtherfield but their differences. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-24 Thread Simon Biggs
Hi Ruth Sorry to hear you aren't too well. Look forward to your considered engagement with the issues when you are feeling little better. Your contribution to this discussion has been excellent. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http

[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-25 Thread Simon Biggs
of Bergen. This July edition of empyre Creativity as a social ontology is moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus), edinburgh college of art. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-26 Thread Simon Biggs
in any attempt to instrumentalise something. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology, and some music by Bonaparte

2010-07-27 Thread Simon Biggs
, it need not be. Perhaps we all need to go back to being strolling troubadours, pre-Boccaccio authors. That sounds awful...I'm not a folk music fan :( Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology: Authorship

2010-07-29 Thread Simon Biggs
this context, and to re-formulate the month's topic, we can ask where a book (or other artefact) comes from? What is the relationship between an artefact and its context? What affect does it have upon its environment? Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk

[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-31 Thread Simon Biggs
several timely and thoughtful interventions, and also all those members who participated silently, each of whom read us (and empyre as a collective phenomena) into being at each reading. With list members all over the world it ensures we are all well travelled. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi

Re: [-empyre-] FWD: From Artist-in-residence Janice Perry

2010-10-14 Thread Simon Biggs
is a nice target for the anti-intellectual neo-liberals who control the Conservative led government in London. They just scored a direct hit. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art

Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Biggs
the deepest spending cuts in 85 years and sweeping changes in the social contract that has bound the UK together since WWII. Who said the Brit's are a downtrodden and resigned bunch? Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk

Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Biggs
of people, especially in HE, who are considering packing their bags. Where did I leave that large backpack? Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk

Re: [-empyre-] December Discussion - Gaming Subcultures

2010-11-29 Thread Simon Biggs
All interesting. No mention though of Huizinga's work, or that of numerous related theorists, on the role of play in the formation, practice and value of cultural activities. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk

Re: [-empyre-] playing vs productivity (and what does it has to do with videogames?)

2010-11-30 Thread Simon Biggs
is genetically inherited. Darwinian theory can't be applied without this being the case. It is debatable whether such behaviour can be inherited. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art

Re: [-empyre-] playing vs productivity (and what does it has to do with videogames?)

2010-12-01 Thread Simon Biggs
hegemony we inhabit, a route to this is to ensure one's play is unproductive or, even better, anti-productive (eg: destructive). This is what I understand the Wombles and other groups are all about. Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http

Re: [-empyre-] baggage and utilitarian tools

2010-12-30 Thread Simon Biggs
___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity

[-empyre-] Contesting the Netopticon

2011-01-09 Thread Simon Biggs
January on empyre soft-skinned space Contesting the Netopticon http://www.subtle.net/empyre Moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Australia) with invited discussants Joseph Delappe, Marc Garrett, Davin Heckman, Patrick Lichty, Heidi May, Christina Spiesel and Jon Thomson Alison Craighead. Dear empyre

Re: [-empyre-] the netopticon

2011-01-10 Thread Simon Biggs
This is the moral quandry, and a very practical one. On 10/01/2011 19:01, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Can we hack our way round this cul-de-sac, and if so, in what manner or form? Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http

[-empyre-] Stephen Wilson

2011-01-11 Thread Simon Biggs
much energy to the new media arts. Steve was a net contributor to our community, part of what helped define it and hold it together. He was also a very nice guy with a great sense of humour. Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http

Re: [-empyre-] contesting the netopticon

2011-01-11 Thread Simon Biggs
well. Marc Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

[-empyre-] Week two: our guests on empyre

2011-01-16 Thread Simon Biggs
edition of empyre Contesting the Netopticon is moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus), edinburgh college of art. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity

[-empyre-] Anonymous

2011-01-27 Thread Simon Biggs
Now the police are directly attacking the defenders. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12299137 Best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity

[-empyre-] Netopticon and the cops - asymmetry in play

2011-01-28 Thread Simon Biggs
on behaviour to assure they remain within social norms. However, once the nature of the netopticon is recognised its power evaporates. It was never there. Best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle

[-empyre-] contesting the netopticon

2011-01-30 Thread Simon Biggs
, which presents the most appropriate image for the netopticon. By having our conversations in public we can render our inter-subjectivities as a performative instance of the netopticon in play. Best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http

Re: [-empyre-] networked self and the netopticon

2011-01-30 Thread Simon Biggs
the choice of the word agency... People are using this word in relation to social research, which is why I wonder about when art becomes social research. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle

[-empyre-] Not-watching the detectives

2011-01-31 Thread Simon Biggs
premise. At what point does the benefit of transgression begin to outweigh the benefit of obedience? Where is the viable threshold of fear located? Best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle

Re: [-empyre-] contesting the netopticon

2011-01-31 Thread Simon Biggs
-subjectivities as a performative instance of the netopticon in play. Best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland

Re: [-empyre-] contesting the netopticon

2011-01-31 Thread Simon Biggs
@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201

Re: [-empyre-] Correction...

2011-01-31 Thread Simon Biggs
___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland

Re: [-empyre-] the art of forgetting

2011-03-13 Thread Simon Biggs
, simon wrote: Simon Biggs wrote: It's part of the role of artists to ensure we don't forget. Hmm, I don't think this is true really. Donning a role of social responsibility, whether that be for a moral project or cultural heritage, hasn't been widely practiced by artists since

Re: [-empyre-] the art of forgetting

2011-03-13 Thread Simon Biggs
or not, deeply disturbing. This is what art needs, like a hole in the head. Nobody needs this. They look like bankers. Let's return to the month's theme... Best Simon On 13/03/2011 19:45, Cynthia Beth Rubin c...@cbrubin.net wrote: I agree with Simon Biggs - I do believe that this statement is true

Re: [-empyre-] the field disappears....

2011-03-31 Thread Simon Biggs
Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 ___ empyre forum empyre

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

2011-04-12 Thread Simon Biggs
:37, Warren Armstrong filmcem...@gmail.com wrote: Smartphones may still be the purvey of the wealthy Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered

Re: [-empyre-] Avataric -

2011-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qz.txt == ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http

Re: [-empyre-] Avataric -

2011-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qz.txt == ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs si

Re: [-empyre-] real vs. unreal

2011-05-01 Thread Simon Biggs
Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116-4624 (617) 824-8862 john_craig_free...@emerson.edu http://JohnCraigFreeman.net ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http

Re: [-empyre-] Wearable Technologies, or dances with horse

2011-05-07 Thread Simon Biggs
, what is it that is performed? The term performativity tends to be used these days quite a lot and I often wonder how it is used, for what end and in regard to what situation. Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- June 2011: Biennales Plus and Minus

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Biggs
empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201

[-empyre-] Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

2011-07-03 Thread Simon Biggs
-moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus) and Magnus Lawrie (UK). Simon Biggs | si...@littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk s.bi...@eca.ac.uk | Edinburgh College of Art www.eca.ac.uk/circle | www.elmcip.net | www.movingtargets.net Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland

Re: [-empyre-] Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

2011-07-03 Thread Simon Biggs
Simon Biggs | si...@littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk s.bi...@eca.ac.uk | Edinburgh College of Art www.eca.ac.uk/circle | www.elmcip.net | www.movingtargets.net Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201

Re: [-empyre-] laws, outlaws golden pirates

2011-07-05 Thread Simon Biggs
@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs | si...@littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk s.bi...@eca.ac.uk | Edinburgh College of Art www.eca.ac.uk/circle | www.elmcip.net | www.movingtargets.net Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number

Re: [-empyre-] laws, outlaws golden pirates

2011-07-09 Thread Simon Biggs
there isn't one... Best Simon ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs | si...@littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk s.bi...@eca.ac.uk | Edinburgh College of Art www.eca.ac.uk/circle

[-empyre-] July on empyre: Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

2011-07-10 Thread Simon Biggs
creative digital writing practices. The July edition of empyre Reclaiming creativity as agent of change is co-moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus) and Magnus Lawrie (UK). Simon Biggs | si...@littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk s.bi...@eca.ac.uk | Edinburgh College of Art www.eca.ac.uk/circle

Re: [-empyre-] Piracy at the heart of governing? - Piracy as Business Force

2011-07-11 Thread Simon Biggs
@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs | si...@littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk s.bi...@eca.ac.uk | Edinburgh College of Art www.eca.ac.uk/circle | www.elmcip.net | www.movingtargets.net Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201

Re: [-empyre-] Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

2011-07-19 Thread Simon Biggs
://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Simon Biggs | si

Re: [-empyre-] July on empyre: Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

2011-07-19 Thread Simon Biggs
, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com wrote: The Critical Engineer takes black-box technology and infrastructure as something that must be pared back, cracked open and or re-purposed before both the object and its engineering effects upon the user can be fully understood. Simon Biggs | si

Re: [-empyre-] Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

2011-07-20 Thread Simon Biggs
is being widened in the UK. This seems to be in contrast to the Danish situation. In regard to melting away, perhaps motley self-institution is best made homeless? Best wishes, Magnus On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:09:33AM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote: The jester worked up close and dirty

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