<div dir="ltr">Hi Renate,<div><br></div><div>I'm looking forward to the May discussion. And, though I'm not quite sure I can meaningfully contribute to specifically the *politics* of participatory art, you might enjoy a project I'm working on right now: Sauntering verse auto generates Dadaist poetry based on the user's location. You can play with it here: <a href="http://saunteringverse.com">http://saunteringverse.com</a>, and directly jump into creating a poem here: <a href="http://www.saunteringverse.com/create.php">http://www.saunteringverse.com/create.php</a></div><div>This works on any device, but best if you take your device for a walk.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Babak Fakhamzadeh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Babak Fakhamzadeh | <a href="mailto:babak.fakhamzadeh@gmail.com" target="_blank">babak.fakhamzadeh@gmail.com</a> | <a href="http://BabakFakhamzadeh.com" target="_blank">http://BabakFakhamzadeh.com</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Renate Ferro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renateferro@gmail.com" target="_blank">renateferro@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">
<p><span>Dear -empyre list servers,</span></p>
<p><span>Sorry to interrupt the April discussion but our guest moderator for May, Kyle Lane-McKinley is looking for weekly guests for his upcoming topic, Social Practice and Social Reproduction: the politics of participatory art. If there are any artists, curators, technologists, or theoreticians who are interested in joining in please contact me as soon as possible.</span></p>
<p><span>Here is a snippet of what is ahead:</span></p>
<p><span>"“Social Practice” has emerged as a useful, if contested, term to describe a variety of contemporary art practices which situate the audience as the medium or site of creativity. Pulling on tendencies within installation and performance art, anthropology, and anti-hierarchical political movements, among others, social practice sits alongside threads of new media production as inheritors of 20th century avant-garde experimentalism. At the same time, social practice has met with various criticisms: as a fad, a-political, utopian, white, erasing past efforts, and more.</span></p>
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<p><span>In this month’s discussion we aim to interrogate what is meant by “social practice,” what the political efficacy of such practices might be, and what the responsibilities of various actors and institutions involved might be to one another.”</span></p>
<p>Thanks to all Renate<br><span></span></p>
<p><span>Renate Ferro</span></p>
<p><span>Visiting Associate Professor</span></p>
<p><span>College of Architecture, Art and Planning</span></p>
<p><span>Department of Art</span></p>
<p><span>Tjaden Hall 306</span></p></div>
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