<nettime-ann> July on -empyre- : "Bare LIfe"

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

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July 2006 on -empyre- soft-skinned space:  "Bare Life"


http://www.subtle.net/empyre



Please join guests Jordan Crandall (US), Tina Gonsalves (AU), GH
Hovagimyan (US), Conor McGarrigle (IR), Susana Mendes Silva (PT), and
Michele White (US) as we address
a question posed by the upcoming Documenta 12:


What is bare life?


This question is one of three leitmotifs being talked about, and
written about all over the world during 2006, in collaboration  with
the  Documenta Magazine Project  ( http://www.documenta12.de/english/
leitmotifs.html )  -empyre- is honored to be invited into the
conversation, as an Australian based new media publication and
international collaborative list, founded by Melinda Rackham in
2002.  In  March 2006, we spent a lively multilingual month on 'Is
Modernity our Antiquity"  -- and the archives for this discussion are
online now at https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-March/


The Documenta Magazine project editors describe it this way......



"What is bare life?


" This second question underscores the sheer vulnerability and
complete exposure of being. Bare life deals with that part of our
existence from which no measure of security will ever protect us. But
as in sexuality, absolute exposure is intricately connected with
infinite pleasure. There is an apocalyptic and obviously political
dimension to bare life (brought out by torture and the concentration
camp). There is, however, also a lyrical or even ecstatic dimension
to it – a freedom for new and unexpected possibilities (in human
relations as well as in our relationship to nature or, more
generally, the world in which we live). Here and there, art dissolves
the radical separation between painful subjection and joyous
liberation. But what does that mean for its audiences?"



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------------------------------------------>Jordan Crandall (US) is a
media artist and theorist. His ongoing art/research project,
UNDERFIRE, concerning the organization and representation of
political violence, opens next October at the Seville Biennial.  He
is currently completing HOMEFRONT, a new 3-channel video installation
that explores the effects of security culture on subjectivity and
identity.  His most recent essay, "Precision+Guiding+Seeing" is
online at CTHEORY (2006) http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=502.  He
is Associate Professor in Visual Arts, University of California, San
Diego.
http://jordancrandall.com/


------------------------------------------->Tina Gonsalves (AU) is
currently artist in residence at the Institute of Cognitive
Neuroscience at University College London.  Combining diagnostic
imaging, biometric sensors and mobile technologies, she investigates
emotional signatures both within the body and among interactive
audiences. Since 1995 her work has shown internationally at venues
including Banff Centre for the Arts (CA); Siggraph (US);
International Society for the Electronic Arts 2004; European Media
Arts Festival; Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (JP);
Australian Centre For Photography, Sydney; Barbican (UK); Pompidou
Centre (FR), Institute for Contemporary Art, London; and Australian
Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne. Her music videos for
Universal, BMG, EMI, and Festival Mushroom Records have been
televised worldwide.  http://www.tinagonsalves.com

---------------------------------------------->G.H. Hovagimyan (US)
is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. He was one
of the first artists in New York to start working with the Internet
and new media in the early nineties. His work ranges from hypertext
works to digital performance art, installations and HD video.  Recent
awards include 2003 fellowship from Experimental Television Center,
2002 Artists Fellowship from Franklin Furnace, 2002 pilot artist in
residence program from Eyebeam, NYC. http://spaghetti.nujus.net/artDirt/


---------------------------------------------->Conor McGarrigle (IR)
is a net artist and founder of  www.stunned.org. His practice
involves fictional identities and “prankstavism” concerning
surveillance (Spook...), identity (PLAY-lets) and art activism
(IrishMuseumofModernArt.com). Together with a narrative work about
artists in Dublin based on Joyce's “Ulysses”, he has launched “The
Bono Probability Positioning System version 2 : Google Bono (beta)”
-- a mashup using the city’s surveillance camera network, facial
recognition software,  and Google Maps to determine the probability
of seeing Bono in real time Dublin. His work has shown at the Seoul
Net Festival, File Sao Paolo, FILE RIO, Thailand New media arts
festival, Fundacio La Caixa Barcelona, SIGGRAPH, ReJoyce Festival
Dublin, Arthouse Dublin, Project Arts Centre Dublin, The City Arts
Centre and  Intermedia Cork.  http://stunned.org


----------------------------------------------->Susana Mendes Silva
(PT)  lives and works in Lisboa, Portugal. She has been working in
the interstices of intimacy and affection, but also with reflecting
about the object of art. Some of her projects make a very visible
bridge between these two universes, especially the site-specific or
the performance works.She has recently spoke about her networked
performances - artphone, 2002; art_room, 2005; and artphone, 2005 -
at The Upgrade! Lisbon, and has developed the work Sheet for vector
(the e-zine of virose http://www.virose.pt/) and for hidden agenda,
contemporary art editions. http://www.susanamendessilva.com/


----------------------------------------------->Michele White (US) is
an Assistant Professor of new media studies at Tulane University, New
Orleans. Her book, The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet
Spectatorship, was just published by MIT Press. In this text she
poses hybrid critical models and suggests how theories o authorship,
feminist film, gender and queer studies, hypertext, and postcolonial
and critical race studies offer ways to understand Internet sites.
Her recent articles include: "Where Do You Want to Sit Today?
Computer Programmers' Static Bodies and Disability" Information,
Communication and Society 9, 3 (2006) and "The Aesthetic of Failure:
Net Art Gone Wrong, Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities 7, 1
(2002).  http://michelewhite.org.


with moderator--------------------------->Christina McPhee (US)
Combining performance and documentary, Christina’s experimental films
and digital photographic installations  combine the poetics of memory
with flashes of documentary and performance.  Her new work on a town
stricken by mudslide in coastal California,  "La Conchita mon amour'
will open at Sara Tecchia Roma New York, Chelsea, in October 2006.
http://strikeslip.tv
http://christinamcphee.net




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