<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=""><div class=""><div class="">hi everyone—</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many, many thanks to Lauren Klein, Erin Leland, Catherine d’Ignazio and Lee Mackinnon for a provocative and dense set of threads— <a href="http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2016-July/thread.html#9166" class="">http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2016-July/thread.html#9166</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m excited for such an interesting start and looking forward to our new week, July 8-15, with Katherine Behar, Fiamma Montezemolo, and Annina Rüst</div><div class="">Here’s something about each of them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katherine Behar </div><div class=""><br class="">Katherine Behar's videos, performances, and interactive installations explore issues in contemporary digital culture. Her new book, Bigger Than You; Big Data and Obesity, is out now with Punctum Books. <a href="https://punctumbooks.com/titles/bigger-than-you-big-data-and-obesity/" class="">https://punctumbooks.com/titles/bigger-than-you-big-data-and-obesity/</a> Behar's work appears at festivals, galleries, performance spaces, and art centers worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Judson Church in New York; UNOACTU in Dresden; The Girls Club Collection in Miami; Feldman Gallery + Project Space in Portland; De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam; the Mediations Biennale in Poznan; the Chicago Cultural Center; the Swiss Institute in Rome; the National Museum of Art in Cluj-Napoca; and many others. Her forthcoming edited collection, Object-Oriented Feminism (OOF), will be published by University of Minnesota Press in 2016. Behar holds an MFA in Combined Media from the Department of Art at Hunter College, an MA in Media Ecology from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, and a BFA in Studio Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an assistant professor of new media arts at Baruch College, New York. <a href="http://katherinebehar.com/shows/index.html" class="">http://katherinebehar.com/shows/index.html</a><br class=""><br class="">Fiamma Montezemolo</div><div class=""><br class="">Fiamma Montezemolo is both an artist (MFA, San Francisco Art Institute) and a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D, Universita’ degli Studi Orientali di Napoli). She is an established scholar in border studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema&Digital Media at the University of California, Davis. She works with various media, including installation, video, and ethnography. Her artwork has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is represented by the Magazzino Dell’Arte Moderna gallery in Rome. She authored and co-authored several books, among them: Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the global Border (Duke U. Press), Here is Tijuana (Black Dog Publishing), and has published articles and collaborative works in various journals, including Third Text, Aztlán, Avatar, and Revista de Antropologia Social.<br class=""><a href="http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#unlived" class="">http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#unlived</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Annina Rüst</div><div class=""><br class="">Annina Rüst produces electronic objects and software art. She creates technologies that are artistically and socially motivated. Her projects happen at the intersection of activism, algorithm, data, electricity, humor, politics, and pop culture. Her work has been reviewed in such publications as Wired and the New York Times Magazine. The Huffington Post called her recent robotics work a "Badass Feminist Robot". Rüst's projects have been shown internationally in galleries, museums, and festivals such as Zero1 Biennial and ISEA, as well as at the Edith Russ Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. In 2014, she received an Art+Technology Lab grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).She has a diploma from the University of the Arts in Zürich, an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.Since 2009, Annina Rüst has worked at Syracuse University in the Department of Transmedia. She is a tenured Associate Professor. <a href="http://anninaruest.com" class="">http://anninaruest.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-cm</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Christina McPhee</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://christinamcphee.net" class="">http://christinamcphee.net</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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