<div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>First off, many thanks to Soraya for convening such an exciting group of new media artists and thinkers to dialogue with, and I am honored to be part of this conversation at empyre. I apologize as I chose to receive daily digests, and it has been difficult to follow the individual messages to respond, although it has been a fun process of reading through in a non-linear fashion! For now, I will send this post, as Soraya asked us to share on a recent work and outline some of the individual and intellectual stakes of the week's topic, and will move through the other threads, as I am very much looking forward to the discussion. </div><div><br></div><div>A current project I am working on is a poetry machine, specifically a Kimchi Poetry Machine that audibly plays feminist centered poetry upon opening the glass jar. Powered by arduino and Ada fruit, the piece is part of a larger series of my interests on the intersections of poetry, technology, and participation. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is the link to the project page: <a href="http://www.kimchipoetryproject.com">www.kimchipoetryproject.com</a> </div><div><br></div><div>& specifically the machine, <a href="http://www.kimchipoetryproject.com/machine.html">http://www.kimchipoetryproject.com/machine.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Although the project emerges very much from feminist and Korean American history, poetics, and new media, I was and am very interested in how to expand the idea of a Korean American or feminist poem via technology. I asked several feminist poets to engage with the machine, by contributing poems that I was able to program. Some of the poets identified as Korean American and some did not, but all were invested in exploring a feminist poetics via technology. I am also interested in how we can engage with experimental and conceptual poetics as inclusive and not exclusive, and dismantle boundaries of reader/writer, artist/audience etc. </div><div><br></div><div>Here are some video demos of the kimchi poetry machine I made with my friend new media artist<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px">micha cárdenas</span><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px"> for the Canadian feminist magazine, nomorepotlucks: <a href="http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/red-bloom-a-poetry-altar-for-margaret-rhee/">http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/red-bloom-a-poetry-altar-for-margaret-rhee/</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px">I like to think of feminist praxis underlining the centrality of participation and interaction in new media art & design. </span></font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px">I would love to hear more on how artists and thinkers are utilizing feminist praxis and principles of participation in their new media artwork, along with poetics, and issues of the </span></font><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Interstices of Identity</span><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px">. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2000007629395px"><br></span></font></div><div>warmly, </div><div><br></div><div>Margaret </div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Margaret Rhee, Ph.D. <div><br><div><div>Institute of American Cultures Visiting Researcher </div><div>Asian American Studies Center </div><div>University of California, Los Angeles.</div></div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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