<div dir="ltr">Murat you have assimilated both Simon's and Ana's posts in a way that makes so much sense though I'm wondering if you would say a bit more about the negative value of nothingness. How is it possible to give value to absence? . Perhaps our resident philosophers can chime in here? <div><br></div><div>This might be a great segue into Week 4. While we say thank you to Simon Biggs and Ana Valdes,<div>We welcome Erin Obodiac and Jason Bernagozzi to our final week on Boredom. Their biographies are below. </div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Week 4:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Erin
Obodiac (US) received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University
of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">California,
Irvine and has held teaching and research appointments at UC Irvine, the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">University
of Leeds, SUNY Albany, and Cornell University. Her writings assemble</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">residual
questions from the deconstructive legacy with emergent discourses on technics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">and
animality, robotics, and biomedia. She is currently a Mellon postdoctoral
fellow at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Cornell
University, teaching a series of Comparative Media seminars and completing a</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">book
called The Transhuman Interface, which repositions critical theory and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">deconstruction
within the history of cybernetics and machinic life. The Transhuman</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Interface
is a result of the research project “Robots at Risk: Transgenic Art and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Corporate
Personhood,” which Obodiac began as a Fellow at Cornell’s Society for the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Humanities.
The project and the accompanying book manuscript examine contemporary</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">theories
of machinic life and robotics as well as the philosophical traditions that
underpin them. This summer, Obodiac will finish a cinematic version of her
Ph.D. dissertation, Technics and the Sublime</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">.</span></p>
<p style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">J</span><span class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri">ason</span></span><span class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></span><span class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri">Bernagozzi</span></span><span class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri"> (US) </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">is a video, sound and new media artist living and working
in upstate New York and is the co-founder and chair of the board of directors
of the experimental media arts non-profit Signal Culture. His work has been
featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the European Media
Arts Festival in Osnabruk, Germany, the LOOP Video Art Festival in Barcelona,
Spain, the Beyond/In Western NY Biennial in Buffalo, NY, and the Yan Gerber
International Arts Festival in Hebei Province, China. His work has received
several awards including grants from the New York State Council for the Arts,
Wavefarm and the ARTS Council for the Southern Finger Lakes. He is an Assistant
Professor in Digital Media and Animation at Alfred State College.</span></p>
<p style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://seeinginvideo.com/">http://seeinginvideo.com/</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://www.signalculture.org">http://www.signalculture.org</a></span></span></span></p>
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