<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Hello Empyre and Empryians,</span></font><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Long time no write… but I do lurk and enjoy reading the stimulating posts.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Thank you Renate for the extension of the deadline for introductions, I seem to hover a bit too often these days in that space of extended deadlines… </span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;">Here’s my catch up over the last few years, by way of introduction.</span></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">I’m inspired to write by seeing the post from Christian Ulrik Andersen from Aarhus University, which brought back memories of my recent (well 2 years ago now!) guest professorship there, when I met him and Soren Pold and Geoff Cox and so many other great artists/researchers. (I was invited there by Ansa Lonstrop to work on my project on voice and new materialism). I have to say it’s a long time since I’ve gotten up each day to go to work with such a sense of joy as I did in Aarhus. And the conversations there were inspiring for my work. So hej Christian, and any other Aarhus </span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;">Empryians and</span><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> lurkers…</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">That project has become a book that I am writing for MIT Press, <i class="">Voicetracks: Voice and media and media art in the post humanist turn — </i>hopefully to be out later this year or early next. </span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Other work on the project has been book chapters and journal articles. One chapter is in Konstantin Thomaidis and Ben Macpherson’s,</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><i class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;">Voice Studies</i><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;" class="">— where it was good to see a chapter by Nina Sun Eidsheim, whom I met at a residency, at Cornell (hey there snow-loving Ithacans!) at the Society for the Humanities. The journal article is in</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><i class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;">Journal of Sonic Studies </i><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;" class="">10 </span><a href="http://sonicstudies.org/jss10" class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;">http://sonicstudies.org/jss10</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">I’ve been keeping up my art practice with collaborator Maria Miranda (<a href="http://www.out-of-sync.com/" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="" style="color: blue; background-color: white;">www.out-of-sync.com</span></a>). We got obsessed with pollution and coal after a residency in Beijing and came home and made the work <i class="">Coalface</i>, installation and tumblr blog <a href="http://coalfaces.tumblr.com/" class="">http://coalfaces.tumblr.com/</a>. More recently we’ve been doing work provoked by the cruelties of redundancy — exploring the aesthetics of neolliberalism. We had an exhibition in Sydney last year and one coming up in Melbourne this year. Videos in the project are <i class="">Shredded: Stuplimity and the Aesthetics of Neo-Liberalism</i> <a href="https://vimeo.com/126581615" class="">https://vimeo.com/126581615</a> </span></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">and </span><i class="" style="font-size: 14px;">You will go Quietly </i><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/111494446" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">https://vimeo.com/111494446</a><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">. Making the project to get over my sense of being thrown away by redundancy, we were helped by the Three Stooges, well, two of them did, Curly was made redundant, and Sianne Ngai (</span><i class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Ugly Feelings</i><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">). We’ve done a bit of radiophonic work too — radio is my first and still dearest love. The work was <i class="">Spacejunk </i></span></font><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/space-junk/4496330" class="">http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/space-junk/4496330</a> (We were obsessed with Space Junk for a few years, and made a video too <a href="https://vimeo.com/48430885" class="">https://vimeo.com/48430885</a>)</div></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">I’m now happily located at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the University of Melbourne. VCA is now hosting (along with LaTrobe University) the media rich and peer-reviewed <i class="">Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts</i>,<i class=""> </i> of which I am founding editor. <a href="http://unlikely.net.au/" class="">http://unlikely.net.au/</a> Check out the first issue, <i class="">Feral.</i> There are lots of exciting projects coming up through <i class="">Unlikely,</i> including this year’s issue on <i class="">Fieldworks</i>, guest edited by Lucas Ihlein and Brogan Bunt, out of the University of Wollongong. We also are launching a whole new e-publication stream with downloadable e-books and media art projects— all coordinated by Jan Brueggemeier (<a href="mailto:jan@neture.org" class="">jan@neture.org</a>). The first e-publication will be the proceedings (peer reviewed) from a conference, <i class="">Restructure</i>. Check out the <i class="">Unlikely</i> website, it’ll be out soon! Also there will be calls for proposals for guest edited editions and for contributions to the third issue, Seed Banks: Creative Ecological Investigations & Critical Plant Studies (working title)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">I’ve gone on bit long here so I’ll let my bio and the Out-of-Sync bio do the rest of the talking, it’s nice to be out in the open again after a few years of lurking!</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">best</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Norie</span></font></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Bio: <span class="" style="color: rgb(29, 29, 29);">Norie Neumark is a sound/media artist and theorist. </span><b class=""> </b><span lang="EN-AU" class="" style="background-color: white;">Her sound studies research is currently focused on voice and the new materialist turn. </span>Her writing on voice includes <i class="">Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media</i>, (MIT Press, 2010), lead editor and contributor, and an upcoming monograph, <i class="">Voicetracks – voice, media, and media arts in the posthumanist turn</i>, under contract to MIT Press for 2016. <span class="" style="color: rgb(29, 29, 29);">Her </span>collaborative art practice with Maria Miranda has been commissioned and exhibited nationally and internationally. She <span class="" style="color: rgb(29, 29, 29);">is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at VCA and Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="" style="background-color: white;">and the founding editor of <i class="">Unlikely</i></span><i class="">: Journal for Creative Arts. </i><a href="http://unlikely.net.au/" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(107, 0, 109);">http://unlikely.net.au</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p></div><h1 class="" style="margin-left: 2.85pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-weight: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Out-of-Sync is a collaboration between Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda. We have maintained a collaborative art practice for over 20 years, calling ourselves Out-of-Sync. </span></font><o:p class="" style="font-weight: normal; text-indent: 0cm; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""> </font></o:p><span class="" style="font-weight: normal; text-indent: 0cm; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;">Engaged with questions of culture, place and memory, our practice draws provocations, ideas and material from literary texts and popular cultural forms such as film, TV and music – understanding these different cultural forms as ciphers to even greater mysteries. We treat ourselves as (art) mediums – always deep in a state of trance-like séance – passing on these strange disturbances and unclear sightings/sitings that emanate from the vast cultural unconscious. The work that emerges can take many forms, but mostly video, sound, installation and the internet. </span><span style="text-indent: 0cm; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">(</span><a href="http://www.out-of-sync.com/" class="" style="text-indent: 0cm; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" class="" style="color: blue; background-color: white;">www.out-of-sync.com</span></a><span style="text-indent: 0cm; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""> </font></o:p></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></h1><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Feb 2016, at 3:17 AM, Renate Terese Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" class="">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br class=""><br class="">Hi all, Just a note that we are keeping the January discussion board open until Wednesday. For those of you who have not posted you current projects and bios please feel free to do so. On Wednesday we will open a new discussion up "Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee? Moderated by Ana Valdes (UR, SW) and Ricardo<br class="">Dominguez. Looking forward to that. Renate<br class=""><br class="">Renate Ferro<br class="">Cornell University<br class="">College of Architecture, Art and Planning<br class="">Department of Art<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">empyre forum<br class=""><a href="mailto:empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au" class="">empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a><br class="">http://empyre.library.cornell.edu<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>