<div dir="ltr"><p>Hi,</p><p><br></p><p>Here is my bio followed by my very last projects in machinima linked to dance and migration:</p><p>A graduate of the Political Sciences Institute and a Master in
Management of cultural projects, Isabelle Arvers specializes in new
media in 1993. Pioneer in the field of game art in France , she curated <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/playtime-villette-numerique-paris-2002/" title="Playtime">Playtime</a> – the gaming room of Villette Numérique (2002), as well as the <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/sound-toys-villette-numerique-2002/" title="Sound Toys">net.art gallery</a> on “sound games”. </p>
<p>Her following exhibitions and projects then presented the video game
as a new language and as a medium for artists: Organizing a gameboy
music concert at Project 101, Paris, 2004 She also curated <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/mind-control-net-art-exhibit-banana-ram-ancona-2004/" title="Mind Control, Net.art exhibit, Banana RAM, Ancona, 2004">Mind Control</a>, a net.art exhibition for Banana RAM Ancona, Italy , 2004, and <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/wifiledefrance-wireless-art-event-paris-2004/" title="Wifiledefrance, Wireless art event">Node Runners game festival</a>, for the Region Ile de France in Paris, 2004. Curator Reactivate under Gametime festival , Melbourne, Australia 2004 / 2005. </p>
<p>Exhibition curator <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/no-fun-games-and-the-gaming-experience-piksel-bergen-2005/" title="No Fun, Games and the gaming experience, Piksel free and opesnsource software Festival">No Fun ! Games and the gaming experience</a> for Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway , 2005. <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2007/12/playing-to-real/" title="Playing to real">Playing Real</a>, 2007 Gamerz 2009-2014 Digital Lounge at Maison Populaire , Montreuil , and <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2011/04/game-heroes-a-playable-exhibit/" title="Game Heroes, a playable exhibit">Game Heroes</a> at the Alcazar , Marseille, 2011.
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<p>From 2005, she is interested in <a href="httphttp://www.isabellearvers.com/machinima-eng/">machinima</a>
( films made within virtual worlds using real-time 3D engines or video
games) and organizes screenings at the Centre Pompidou, at festivals in
France and abroad (Czech Republic , Brazil, Canada) since 2009, she
organizes workshops initiation or completion of machinima , to
democratize a practice that transforms an object of mass consumption
into a production tool. </p>
<p>In partnership with the Gamerz Festival in Aix -en- Provence, she
designed the first machinima exhibitions in art gallery and continues
to work with curatorial exhibitions of independent games, game art and
retrogaming in France with <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2013/03/exposition-jeux-reve-semaine-digitale-bordeaux-mars-2013/" title="Exposition Jeux rêve, Semaine Digitale, Bordeaux, mars 2013">Dream Games</a>, <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/play-again/" title="Political games in the exhibition “Play again”">Games Policy</a>, <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2013/09/games-reflexions-le-carreau-cergy-18-octobre-novembre-2013/" title="GAMES REFLEXIONS , Le Carreau, Cergy, 18 octobre, Novembre 2013">Games Reflexions</a> and abroad with <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2014/08/retrogaming-in-vancouver-with-evolution-at-cdm/" title="EVOLUTION of gaming a retrogaming exhibition at CDM in Vancouver">Evolution of Gaming</a>, coming to Vancouver in August.
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<p>In 2013 she curated the <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2013/09/the-antiatlas-of-borders-tapestry-museum-aix-en-provence-1st-october-3d-november/" title="The antiAtlas of Borders, Tapestry Museum, Aix-en-Provence, 1st Oct 3d Nov 2013">antiAtlas of Borders</a>, a touring exhibition on the borders in the 21st century that will be shown in Berlin as part of <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2014/07/maps-of-the-secession-politics-and-poetics-of-forms-for-the-21st-century/" title="“Maps of the SECESSION” : politics and poetics of forms for the 21st century">Secession</a> in september 2014 and in <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2014/07/the-art-of-bordering-maxxi-rome-24-26-october-2014/" title="The Art of Bordering, MAXXI, Rome, 24 – 26 October 2014">the Art of bordering</a>, an exhibition hosted at the MAXXI in Rome in october 2014. The next antiatlas of borders exhibition will be held in Brussels in april 2016 with the title: Coding and decoding the borders at the dawn of the 21st century.</p><p>She is also in charge of the <a href="http://lafindescartes.net/">End of the Map</a> exhibition which was presented in Paris during the fall 2015.</p><p>Besides her curatorial work, she produces abstract landscapes machinima <a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/2016/01/becoming-an-artist-slowly-slowly/">http://www.isabellearvers.com/2016/01/becoming-an-artist-slowly-slowly/</a> and is about to collaborate with a dancer in order to mix dance and machinima.</p><p>During her residency in Dunkerque (january/may 2016) she wants to produce collaborative machinima with migrants and refugees about their daily lives in the "jungle" in order to link her work with social sciences research.<br></p><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif" target="_blank"><img alt="http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif" src="http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif"></a><br>Isabelle Arvers<br>Curator and art critic<br>+33 661 998 386<br><a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com" target="_blank">http://www.isabellearvers.com</a><br>Director of Kareron<br><a href="http://www.kareron.com" target="_blank">www.kareron.com</a><br>twitter: @zabarvers<br><a href="http://youtube.com/zabarvers" target="_blank">youtube.com/zabarvers</a><br>Skype ID: zabarvers</div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-02 1:44 GMT+01:00 Laini Burton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:l.burton@griffith.edu.au" target="_blank">l.burton@griffith.edu.au</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div dir="ltr">Hello empyres,<div><br></div><div>I am pleased to be a part of this endlessly fascinating list and enjoy reading the posts. It is affirming to witness the diversity of scholarship within the group.</div><div><br></div><div>Please see here my Bio:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="font-family:minion-pro;line-height:21px;margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Dr Laini Burton<b> </b>is a visual artist, art and design history and theory scholar at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University where she is Head of Studio Art and the Honours program at the Gold Coast Campus. Her research centres on body politics, fashion theory, bio-art and design and performance art. In these areas she focuses on the historical dimension and contemporary applications of new/digital media technologies in art and design practice, writing on topics such as embodiment, technology and biotechnologies, and the shaping of identities through creative practices.</p><p style="font-family:minion-pro;line-height:21px;margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Laini’s publications include ‘Abject Appeal and the Monstrous Feminine in Lady Gaga’s self-fashioned persona “Mother Monster”’, and ‘Nobody’s fool: Power and agency in performing “The Blonde”’ which was included in the book <i>Fashion as </i><i>Masquerade: Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty</i> (University of Chicago Press) which she guest edited with Professor Efrat Tseëlon (University of Leeds, UK) and Professor Emerita of Sociology Diana Crane (UPenn, US). In 2015, her chapter titled 'Evolutionary Scents: Lucy McRae's Swallowable Perfume' was published in <i>The Body Beautiful: Identity, Performance, Fashion and the Contemporary Female Body</i> (InterDisciplinary Press). She has forthcoming essays, 'Gagging Beauty' in <i>Beauty: Exploring Critical Issues, </i>and 'Space-Actant-Event: A Performance' Art Criterion in the text <i>What is Performance Art?</i> (Power Publications, USYD, AU).</p><p style="font-family:minion-pro;line-height:21px;margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Laini supervises Honours, Masters, DVA and PhD candidates whose areas of investigation align with her own research interests. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching, ‘Early Career Award’. Laini maintains an active membership with Industry organisations AAANZ, CAA, POPCAANZ and NAVA.</p><p style="font-family:minion-pro;line-height:21px;margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(68,68,68)">As a practicing artist, Laini was included in a major survey of contemporary female Australian and Indian practitioners in the Open Program of the inaugural 2012 Kochi Muzuris Biennale, India. Other recent exhibitions include<i>Mythopoetic: Women Artists from Australia and India</i> (2013-4) and <i>BELT</i> (2014).</p><div>With kind regards,</div><div>Laini</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr Laini Burton<br>Lecturer, Digital Media<br>Convenor: Studio Art; Gold Coast Campus Convenor, Honours</div><div dir="ltr">Teaching: <span>Studio Art, Fashion Design, Art and Design History and Theory</span><br>Queensland College of Art<br>Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University<br> <br>(p) - 61 (0)7 5552 7121<br>(f) - 61 (0)7 5552 8192<div><a href="http://qcagoldcoast.academia.edu/LainiBurton" target="_blank">http://qcagoldcoast.academia.edu/LainiBurton</a> </div><div>ORCID ID: <span style="line-height:22px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" size="2"><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2124-6304#sthash.LWFuC7FD.dpuf" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0002-2124-6304#sthash.LWFuC7FD.dpuf</a> </font></span><br><br>Administration Contact (p) +61 (0)7 555 2180<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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