<div dir="ltr">Hi Ileanna, dear Empyrers, <div><br></div><div>first a small correction, I am writing from Split, Croatia.</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">About fifteen years ago I have been curating a show on Inter-subjectivity of objects, trying to push and expand the definition usually held within the framework of psychology. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Looking back, such an expansion was possible with certain abstraction and moreover poetisation of contemporary physics, redefining usually dualistically depicted universe into a monist one, but in which this monist position is not being physicalism, but rather more radical non-Western idealism, turning to solipsism when starting to redefine universe as the idealistic one. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Solipsism, as well, is present in the philosophy of Liebnitz becoming more and more important in definition of contemporary mediated universe. So, I would like to propose a start of our discussion with Liebnitz Monadology, in which I would like to propose a monad as a complex engine made out of biological and technological compartments having any experience of self, separately of experience of others. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div>Regards to everyone, especially my correspondent <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">Michael Maizels. </span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Ana </span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">dr. sc. Ana Peraica</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">independent scholar and freelance curator </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">PERISTIL bb</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">21 000 Split </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Croatia </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Ileana Selejan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ileanasel@gmail.com" target="_blank">ileanasel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>a quick intro to this week's discussion: we're excited to have Mike Maizels & Ana Peraica joining us from Wellesley and Zagreb respectively. Mike is the new media curatorial fellow at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, and Ana has written extensively on aesthetics as well as the philosophy of photography and media. Their biographies follow below. </div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to continuing the conversation --> </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Michael Maizels. After studying photography and philosophy of mind at</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">the University of Southern California, Mike received his MA from the</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">University of Chicago and his PhD in art history from the University</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">of Virginia. His first book, forthcoming from the University of</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Minnesota press, focuses on the artist Barry Le Va, who in the late</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">1960s, began to execute scattered sculptures composed of scattered</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">ball bearings, shattered glass, streams of sifted flour, and sharpened</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">meat cleavers. His second book will examine the intersection of</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">experimental art and music in the 1960s. More recently, his research</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">on the radical artistic ferment of the 1960s has lead into a larger</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">interest in newer forms of "variable media," including electronic and</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">digital art. He is currently the Mellon New Media Curator/Lecturer at</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. He is currently preparing an</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">exhibition of the games of Jason Rohrer, which will be the first solo</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">museum exhibition given to a videogame maker.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Ana Peraica holds a Ph. D. in aesthetics of photography. After</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">graduating from University of Zagreb, in fields of art history and</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">philosophy, she became a researcher in art theory at the Jan Van Eyck</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Akademie, Maastricht, where awarded UNESCO-IFPC, In parallel she</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">undertook three year doctorate course in cultural analysis, theory and</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">interpretation at ASCA, University of Amsterdam and defended her</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">thesis entitled Photography as the Evidence at University of Rijeka.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">She is an editor of the reader "Smuggling Anthologies"</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">(Rijeka-Trieste-Idrija, 2015), Victims Symptom – PTSD and Culture</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">(Institute for Networked Cultures, Amsterdam, 2009), "Zena na</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">raskrizju ideologija" (Split, HULU / Governmental Office for the</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Equality of Rights Split, 2007) and author of Sub/versions (Revolver</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Publishing, 2009). She currently works on the book Culture of the</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Selfie. Her essays in domains of visual studies and media theory</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">are/were published by journals, such as Leonardo Journal, Afterimage</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Journal, Institute of Physics Conference Series, and magazinse such as</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Springerin, Art&Education Papers, Documenta Magazine, Pavilion, Flash</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Art etc.</span><br></div></div>
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