<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="">Sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed so far to our conversation on -empyre-…. what is Feminist Data Visualization, what could it be? In week two we were blessed with awesome posts from guests Katherine Behar, Annina Ruest, and Fiamma Montezemolo. Thank you! As the guest moderator I’ve been excited by the high quality of the conversation and discourse so far. Just to catch up— here’s how things have played so far: <a href="http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2016-July/thread.html" class="">http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2016-July/thread.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s our line up for week three— </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Carolyn Castaño, Johanna Drucker, and Erin MacElroy </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Johanna Drucker </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--- is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. Her latest book is Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge, Harvard University Press (2014). Her extensive practice as a book artist find expression in limited edition works, are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Other recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing(Chicago, 2009), and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson, 2008, 2nd edition 2012). She is currently working on a database memoire, ALL, the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King's College, and a letterpress project titled Stochastic Poetics. A collaboratively written work, Digital_Humanities, with Jeffrey Schnapp, Todd Presner, Peter Lunenfeld, and Anne Burdick is forthcoming from MIT Press. <a href="http://www.johannadrucker.net" class="">http://www.johannadrucker.net</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Carolyn Castaño</div><div class="">—</div><div class=""> is a Los Angeles-based artist whose recent body of work - entitled Narco Venus - explores the role of women in the male-dominated culture of narco-trafficking. She is a 2011 California Community Foundation Getty Fellow and recipient of the prestigious C.O.L.A Individual Artist Fellowship 2011.Carolyn’s work was featured in LACMA’s critically-acclaimed exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, which traveled to the Museo Del Barrio, New York City and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, amongst other venues. She has been featured in several group shows, including LA Now: Emerging Artists, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, Liquid Los Angeles: Contemporary Watercolor Painting in Los Angeles at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Semi-Precious, The Public Art Fund, New York and International Paper, an exhibition of drawings at the Hammer Museum. Carolyn has had solo exhibitions at Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles and Lombard-Freid Fine Art, New York. She is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and UCLA's School of Art and Architecture. <a href="http://www.carolyncastano.com" class="">http://www.carolyncastano.com</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Erin McElroy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--- is the cofounder/director of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project - a data visualization, data analysis, and oral history collective documenting the dispossession and resistance of Bay Area residents in the wake of the Tech Boom.She is also a doctoral candidate in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Erin’s project at UCSC applies post-socialist analytics, feminist science studies, and critical race and ethnicity studies to unearth techno-utopic fantasies of freedom in and beyond the Bay Area. Currently, Erin is a YBCA100 Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; a scholar with the “Oakland School” of Urban Studies, and a media arts grantee of the Bay Area's Creative Work Fund. <a href="http://www.antievictionmap.com" class="">http://www.antievictionmap.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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