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<nettime-ann> January 2007 on -empyre- soft-skinned space: "What is to be Done?" (Education)
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January 2007 on -empyre- soft-skinned space: "What is to be
Done?" (Education)
with
Ricardo Rosas (BR), Melinda Rackham (AU), Sharon Daniel (US), Chris
Molinski (US), Andrea Sick (DE), Claudia Reiche (DE), Olivier Dyens
(CA), Deborah Kelly (AU), Illyana Nedkova (BG/SCT), Christiane
Robbins (US), and the collective Øjeblikket (DK). Moderator:
Christina McPhee (US)
In collaboration with the documenta 12 magazine project, -empyre-
soft-skinned space opens the third of three conversations on the
leitmotives of the upcoming documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany next
summer (http://www.documenta12.de/leitmotive.html?&L=1)
documenta 12 magazine project has invited -empyre- to participate
in this world-wide discussion, as one of around eighty publications
in the project.
-empyre- soft-skinned space is an international networked community
list.serv based in Sydney, Australia in cooperation with the College
of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Special thanks to
Melinda Rackham for continuing to support our html pages at http://
www.subtle.net/empyre until we make the switch to the COFA server
early this coming year.
subscribe at
http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Here you can also download printable, edited linear text pdfs of the
previous two documenta 12 magazine project/-empyre- discussions, "Is
Modernity our Antiquity? (March 2006) and
"What is Bare Life?" (July 2006).
And, visit the project hypertext archives:
(new) https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2007-January/
https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-July/
https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-March/
This month, please join us as we generate a dynamic, reader-driven
hypertext around the question, "What is to be Done? (Education):
" Artists educate themselves by working through form and subject
matter; audiences educate themselves by experiencing things
aesthetically. How to mediate the particular content or shape of
those things without sacrificing their particularity is one of the
great challenges of an exhibition like documenta. But there is more
to it than that. The global complex of cultural translation that
seems to be somehow embedded in art and its mediation sets the stage
for a potentially all-inclusive public debate (Bildung, the German
term for education, also means “generation” or “constitution,” as
when one speaks of generating or constituting a public sphere).
Today, education seems to offer one viable alternative to the devil
(didacticism, academia) and the deep blue sea (commodity
fetishism)." --Roger Beurgel, artistic director, documenta 12
Please join our guests beginning January 6 for a month's reflection
and debate surrounding the provocations in the third leitmotif of
documenta 12.
http://www.subtle.net/empyre
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>Ricardo Rosas (BR) editor of the Rizoma e-magazine and a former
member of the Midiatatica.org network. Rosas helped organize the
Mídia Tática
Brasil 2003 and the Digitofagia 2004 festivals in São Paulo, both of
them aimed at discussing the tactical media scene, free software, and
the creation of collaborative projects in art and activism involving
new media. Rosas was the Net Art curator of the Prog: Me festival, in
Rio de Janeiro (2005); and a lecturer at the fourth edition of the
Next 5 Minutes festival, in Amsterdam (2003), the first international
event dedicated to the mapping of tactical media. He also
participated in the Super Demo Digital festival in Rio de Janeiro
(2004); in the Networks, Arts, a Collaboration conference at the
State University of New York, in Buffalo (2004); and in the 15th
Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival. Rizoma, his edited
website on arts and activism is currently taking part on the
Documenta project of publications for the Documenta 2007. http://
www.rizoma.net/hp10.htm
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>Melinda Rackham (AU) Dr Rackham is the Executive Director of the
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Australia’s peak
body for artists working with science and technology, creating
opportunities for innovation, research and development both locally
and globally. As an artist, writer and curator she worked with
Networked Media for over a decade in web, 3d multi-user, game and
mobile environments. Her award winning artworks are widely shown and
her writing appears in diverse art and theory publications. Melinda
founded -empyre- media arts forum in 2002 and in 2003-4 was curator
of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
(ACMI), Melbourne. http://www.anat.org.au/home.htm
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>Sharon Daniel (US) An Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media
at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Sharon teaches classes
in digital media theory and practice. Her research involves
collaborations with communities that focus on the use and development
of information and communications technologies for social inclusion.
Her role as an artist is that of "context provider," - working with
communities, collecting their stories, soliciting their opinions, and
building online archives to make this data available across social,
cultural and economic boundaries. http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/
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>Chris Molinski (US) director of The Art Gallery of Knoxville, a
community space devoted to discussions of new and emerging art in
Knoxville, Tennessee. Recent exhibitions have involved
collaborations with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Max Neuhaus, and
the exhibition "Distribution Religion" with Critical Artware, People
Powered, and Temporary Services. http://
www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com/
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>Andrea Sick (DE) Dr Sick has the management and artistic
responsibility for the cultural lab Frauen.Kultur.Laboratorium
thealit since 1993 (co-operation with thealit since 1990). She is
research assistant at the University of Arts Bremen (Atelier für
Zeitmedien) and responsible for the creation and concept of a network
between art and science in new media technologies. Her research
explores relations between technological media and cultural
production, transitions between biological and information-
technological discourses, interfaces of scientific and cultural
activities; and gender studies. http://thealit.de
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Claudia Reiche (DE) is a media theorist, artist, and curator. Her
work focuses on (cyber)feminist approaches to questions of how man/
machine relations are designed with words and images. She is a
member of thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, Bremen ( http://
www.thealit.de ) and of the first international cyberfeminist
alliance 'old boys network' http://www.obn.org. She has been
director of the European project 'Cyberfeminism.Lab' (Culture 2000
programme of the European Union). Currently she is curating with
Helene von Oldenburg The Mars Patent, the first exhibition site on
Mars http://mars-patent.org, and with Andrea Sick, do not exist,
europe, women, digital medium, a transnational European conference
and exhibition lab , http://thealit.de/lab/donotexist/program.htm.
http://www.claudia-reiche.net
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->Ollivier Dyens (CA) is Chair of the Department of French at
Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is the founder and
webmaster of Metal and Flesh (metalandflesh.com) 1998-2003, as well
as Continent X (continentx.com). He is also the author of Metal and
Flesh, The Evolution of Man, Technology Takes Over, published by MIT
Press Ollivier Dyens has lectured in Europe, the United States and
Canada. His digital artwork has been exhibited in Brasil, Canada,
Venezuela, Germany, Argentina and the United States. http://
www.continentx.com/
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---->Deborah Kelly (AU) has been making socially engaged artwork
since 1983. Collaborative projects include the ongoing
artists gang boat-people.org, and the prize-winning public artwork
series, “Hey, hetero!”, with Tina Fiveash. She has given lectures and
workshops around Australia and in Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco,
Los Angeles and Ottawa. She was invited by Martha Rosler to a
political artists' residency in 2002, and produced a large
collaborative artwork with that crew for Utopia Station in the 2003
Venice Biennale. Her current project, Beware of the God, was
commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. It is a cross-
media artwork considering the rise of religiosity in public life;
documented and extended at www.bewareofthegod.com More work can be
seen at: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/yours/artists/kelly.htm http://
abc.net.au/arts/visual/stories/venice/hh_01.htm
http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=1947
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-->Iliyana Nedkova (BG/SCT) Iliyana is a Sofia-born Edinburgh-based
curator, producer and critic of contemporary art and design.
Currently, Creative Director New Media at Horsecross, Perth where she
is responsible for curating the Threshold artspace, Scotland's first
dedicated gallery for digital public art. A founding Co-Director of
ARC: Art Research Communication (with Chris Byrne), a curatorial
practice working nationally and internationally with artists,
exhibitions, art fairs, editions and critical context. Latest ARC
Projects include the international symposium of curating new media
Art Place Technology, Liverpool and a series of limited editions by
artists Susan Collins, Alla Georgieva, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Ivan Moudov
and Dan Perjovschi.
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>Christiane Robbins (US) is a visual/media artist and scholar
working in video, digital imaging, database aesthetics, and locative/
spatial studies.
Her work is found in permanent collections including the Stedlijck
Museum, Amsterdam, Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Kitchen, NY, the
Banff Centre for the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
and The Getty Museum. Her films have won international awards
including best in category at the San Francisco International Film
Festival. She is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and
Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, Los
Angeles. She was the Executive Producer of the AIM Festival, a co-
organizer of Race in Digital Space (MIT/USC's multi-year project
including conferences and exhibition. ) and a co-Director of the On-
Line Against Aids Project, one of the first on-line global cultural
events.
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>Øjeblikket (DK) (editorial collective: Karin Hindsbo, Mikkel Bolt,
and Kristina Ask) is a magazine based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded
in 1993, it is dedicated to the theory and critique of contemporary
art. Throughout its existence the journal has tried to address
issues of significance to the present situation, thereby hoping to
contribute to the creation of a critical public sphere. Each issue of
Øjeblikket features a theme that is approached from different angles
- philosophical, political, and feminist; recent themes have been
propaganda, exclusion, and drawing. Kristina Ask, visual artist is
engaged in tv-tv, UKK (Association of Young Artworkers in Denmark)
and the project Free Floating Faculty. Mikkel Bolt is Assistant
professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen
University, and author of The Last Avantgarde: Situationistisk
Internationale beyond Art and Politics (2004).Karin Hindsbo, art
historian is director of Den Frie, Contemporary Art Gallery, and
chairman of UKK (Association of Young Artworkers in Denmark).
Øjeblikket is a participating magazine in the documenta 12
magazine project. http://www.ojeblikket.net
moderator
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---->Christina McPhee (US) is an independent media and visual artist,
theorist, and co-moderator at Sydney-based -empyre- soft-skinned
space ( a networked community focussed on critical thinking on new
media arts and culture internationally, founded by Melinda Rackham in
2002). Her most recent exhibition in video, drawing and digital
photomontage, "La Conchita mon amour" premiered at Sara Tecchia, New
York (Chelsea) in October-November 2006 (http://saratecchia.com/
gallery/past/la_conchita/pressrelease.php) Wunderkabinet, an
electronic opera by Pamela Z in collaboration with Matt Brubeck and
Christina McPhee, premiered in LA at Cal Arts' REDCAT Theatre, Walt
Disney Hall, in October 2006 (http://www.pamelaz.com/
wunderkabinet.html) Her multimedia project Carrizo Diaries, on
seismic memory, showed recently in Sweden (Bildmuseet Umea), and
Cartes Center for Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland http://
www.cartes-art.fi/mcphee/ Recent writing appears in Neural (http://
neural.it/english), Virose (http://virose.pt), drunkenboat (http://
www.drunkenboat.com/db7/index.html and
Ctheory ( http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=485 ) http://
christinamcphee.net, http://strikeslip.tv
-cm
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