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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">On this sunny june 1 morning -<br>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Thanks, renate, for inviting to me on -empyre-
editorial board and for the introduction to this month's launch.</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">I have titled this month's topic “rehearsal of
a network” with a focus on network activation, network
construct, networked activism, performance, leading towards some
(un)imaginable scenarios for nets and nets. </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Taking Mycelium
Network Society as a starting point, we hope to unfold this
discussion on networks in four weeks - </span></span><span
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New Roman""><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana">June 1-8<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(week 1) – mycelium
network society with network nodes' participants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""></span><span
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New Roman"">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana">June 9-15 (week 2)
– networked activism and performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana">June 16-22 (week
3) – post-Net network imagination<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana">June 23-30 (week
4) – proposals for speculative, tangible networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</span>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">[flashback]<br>
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<span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">In
the 80s in New York City, I was part of Paper Tiger TV
collective. By 1986, PPTV gave rise to Deep Dish TV network that
takes on "creating and distributing politically radical
independent videos that challenge the narratives of corporate
media." For DDTV, I have collaborated and co-produced 'Racism on
the Mainstreet" for its premiere launch, followed by 'Will be
Televised' (1990), a 5 part series of video documents from Asia.
In my art works, I have worked with networked installation and
performances, including Bowling alley (1995, Walker art center)
which connects a bowling lane in Minneapolis to the gallery at
Walker and WWW, then a fresh outpost; Brandon (1998-1999), one
year web narrative that networks actual and virtual - spaces,
beings, genders and crimes. Working in collective modes, I
co-founded several network initiative, including TAKE2030 (since
2003) which "operates in parallel net media scheme and shifts the
social media mission into hypermedia playing fields",
LaptopsRus.me (since 2009) which hosts "MEETING | REUNIÓN" inside
an electronically updated boxing ring for networking woman live
performers.</span>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">In the early 90s, i hitchhiked onto the
superhighway, claiming my homesteading and squating the
cyberspace. By the early 2000, we (co-curation with Armin
Medosch and Yukiko Shikata) launched Kingdom of Piracy, </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">an online, open work space to explore the free
sharing of digital content - often condemned as piracy - as the
net's ultimate art form. </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">By then, i have located much of my work in the
post-netcrash scenarios, i.e. Garlic=RichAir (2002-2003), in
this public </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">performance project, </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">organic
garlic was </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ
明朝";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">ordained
as new </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">social
currency, serving as "credito" for a global shared network.</span>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">[flash forward]</span><br>
<span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""></span> </p>
<span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">In 2017, in association with<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Stadtwerkstatt (Linz, Austria)
and CycleX (Andes, New York), we launched “Mycelium Network
Society” (MNS) (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://myceliumNS.net"><span style="color:blue">http://myceliumNS.net</span></a>)
at Ecologies excursion at transmediale 2017. </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Mycelium Network Society</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> imagines an underground network situated in a
post-internet mudland. Powered by fungus, spores, culture,
kitchen, radio, transmission, installations, workshops and
performances, MNS departs from the pursuits of magic mushroom to
chart<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> a </span>state of
hyper-hallucination and collective fungal consciousness. <span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">As</span> an after nature’s
network, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">MNS</span>
investigates the fungi culture,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>its
network capacity to communicate and process information. MNS
commands its own domain in human-disturbed forests - sprouting
across the moisture of rich soils, expanding its colonies, sharing
informations, networking co-habitants across borders. In our
withered ecosphere, we seek out mycelium to lead us out of the
ruins, to construct political tactics, to salvage economic
meltdown, to persist in constant molecular communication a la
mycelium mode. </span><span class="about"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">For
years 2018-2020, we propose to branch out Mycelium Network
Society a la franchise mode. Observing the concept of
distributed network, we seek out art spaces/collectives/labs to
participate as nodes, a node that grows and connects nodes
globally. We set cycle1 of network cultivating for three years,
from 2018 to 2020. On a giving day in 2020, we call for a global
action with connected nodes, to release the collected spores
into the stratosphere, letting them drift in blowing wind till
they ground themselves in the new land where cycle ll begins.</span></span>
<span class="about"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">so
far, we have these nodes signed on as part of Mycelium Network
Society<br>
</span></span>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">APO-33 Nantes, France<br>
furtherfield London, UK<br>
Coalesce: Center for Bilogical Art, Buffalo, USA<br>
Squeaky Wheel film and media art center, Buffalo, USA<br>
The Santuary for Independent Media | Nature Lab Troy, USA<br>
GENSPACE, New York City, USA<br>
DIMENSION PLUS, Taipei, Taiwan<br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ＭＳ
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Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ
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mso-hansi-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">竹圍工作室</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">|Bamboo curtain studio Taipei, Taiwan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">With this week's discussion, we hope that more
nodes will ADOPT 'MNS'.<br>
</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">I am grateful that most of these nodes'
directors are joining us for [week 1] and also like to welcome a
very special guest from Mexico, </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Adrian
Guzman</span>.</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">We begin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Adrian
Guzman (Mexico)</span><span style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New
Roman"">, Biohacker concentrated in Genomics and
Epidemiology of Communication. Has been advisor of the Director
General of Inecol</span><span style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New
Roman"">, one of the 27 national</span><span
style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New
Roman""> public research centers in Mexico focused in
Ecology and Agro-nanobiotechnology. Has been a visiting fellow
at Wyss Institute in Harvard, </span><span style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New
Roman"">Centre for Bio Inspired Engineering. With a BSc
background in physics and artificial intelligence, a BSc in
Telecommunications Engineering, a Master degree in Environmental
Intelligence and Digital Architecture and a PhD in Social
Representations and Communication (office of the future,
anthropology of learning and cognition and food representations)
his interests are broad and collective. As Gaston Guzman (+)
deceased, collaborator. Helped to classify and update the most
extensive collection database of fungi in Mexico. <o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mushroomjohn.org/guzman1.htm">
http://mushroomjohn.org/guzman1.htm</a><br>
</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Franz
Xaver<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> (stadtwerkstatt, Linz,
Aystria) </span>has studied at the Academy of Applied Art,
department of<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">
"Visual Communication" founded by Peter Weibel. Subsequently he
was<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">teaching
computer languages, audio-visual productions, electronics and<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">
electrical technics at the same Academy until 1992.<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">At
the Technical University of Graz he was lecturing at the
departure<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">
"Institut für Baukunst" "CommunicationTheory".<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">
He was participating in numerous exhibitions in Austria and
abroad,<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">
including Ars Electronica, Aperto Biennale di Venezia, Triennale
Milano,<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">
Bonn Kunst und Ausstellungshalle from Germany. He directs the
two workspaces - </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Medienkunstlabor
Kunsthaus Graz and STWST(Stadtwerkstatt) Linz. </span><br>
<span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stwst.at">http://stwst.at</a></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span
style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Jenny
Pickett (apo33, Nantes, France) is a British artist based in
Nantes and member of the artists' collective APO33. Pickett’s
workcrosses experimental music, visual and sound arts, regularly
working in collaboration with Julien Ottavi and performing
regularly with their duo Solar Return. She creates
installations, sound sculptures and compositions, often
ontological, philosophical or scientific, her subject is
articulated around complex notions related to the slipping of
times, cycles, identities and their memory.</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black"> </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Pickett
and Ottavi were artists in residence at EMS (Electronic Music
Stockholm) in 2017 and she was awarded Lauréat prize for visual
arts, Ville de Nantes 2016.</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;
color:black"> </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Pickett teaches drawing
and sound creation at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture
de Nantes.<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;
color:black"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://apo33.org">http://apo33.org</a><o:p></o:p></span>
</p>
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<p style="tab-stops:11.0cm 326.05pt"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family: Verdana">Julien Ottavi </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family: Verdana"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">(apo33,
Nantes, France)</span>- </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family: Verdana">A mediactivist,
artist-researcher, composer / musician, poet and tongues
destroyer, experimental film maker and anarchitect, founder and
member of Apo33, Julien Ottavi is involved in research and
creative work, combining sound art, real-time video, new
technologies and body performances. Since 1997, he develops a
composition work using voice and its transformation through
computer. Active developer of audio/visual programs with
Puredata, he has also developed since many years DIY electronics
(radio transmitters, oscillators, mixers, amplifiers, video
transmitters…etc) in the perspective of knowledge sharing on
technological development. Main developer for the Gnu/Linux
operating system APODIO for digital art and A/V & streaming
diffusion. His practices is not limited to the art spheres but
crosses different fields from technological development to
philosophy / theoretical research, biomimetic analysis &
experimentation. Since many years he reflects on the relations
between experimental practices and collective practices within
the creation of autonomous collective groups, putting in
question the authorship strategy of the “art ideology”. <o:p></o:p></span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span
style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"></span><span
style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New
Roman"">Ruth Catlow (furtherfield, London, UK) is an artist
who works with emancipatory network cultures, practices and
poetics. She is co-founder and artistic director, with Marc
Garrett, of Furtherfield for arts, technology and social change.
Furtherfield’s public exhibition and lab venues in the heart of
Finsbury Park, London, provide a unique physical interface for
free exhibitions, events and workshops and an online hub
provides a forum for exchange and critical review. These spaces
bring together diverse local cultures with thriving networks of
international artists, technologists and activists. Recently
published ‘Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain’ with Marc
Garrett, Nathan Jones, and Sam Skinner 2017.<o:p></o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Marc
Garrett </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><span
style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New
Roman"">(furtherfield, London, UK) is </span>co-director
and co-founder, with artist Ruth Catlow of the arts collective
Furtherfield, in Finsbury Park, London. Has curated over 50
contemporary Media Arts exhibitions, projects nationally and
internationally. Curated the renowned major exhibition Monsters
of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century, at Laboral,
Spain. Main editor of the Furtherfield web site. Written for
various books and articles about art, technology and social
change. Recently published ‘Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain’
with Ruth Catlow, Nathan Jones, and Sam Skinner 2017. Currently
in the last year of Phd at the University of London, Birkbeck
College. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://furtherfield.org">http://furtherfield.org</a></span></p>
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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Paul
Vanouse (</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Coalesce: Center for Bilogical Art, Buffalo,
USA) </span>is a Professor of Art and Director of the
Coalesce Center for Biological Art at the University at Buffalo.
Interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism guide his art
practice. His biological and interactive media projects have
been exhibited in over 25 countries and widely across the US.
His recent projects, “Latent Figure Protocol”, “Ocular
Revision”, “Suspect Inversion Center” and “America Project” use
molecular biology techniques to challenge “genome-hype” and to
engage issues surrounding DNA fingerprinting, particularly the
idea the most authoritative image of our time, the DNA
fingerprint, is somehow natural.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>He has a BFA from the University at Buffalo and an MFA
from Carnegie Mellon University. </span><span
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New Roman""></span><span
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New Roman""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://www.buffalo.edu/gem/coalesce">http://www.buffalo.edu/gem/coalesce</a></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times">Anna
Scime (</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">in association with Coalesce)</span><span
style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"> is an
internationally
exhibited media artist, whose recent solo and group screenings
and exhibitions
include: Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo), Berlin
International Directors
Lounge (Berlin), Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires), Detroit
Independent
Film Festival (Detroit), FLORA ars+natura (Bogotá), Kuala Lumpur
Experimental
Film,and PS1 MoMA (NYC). Her documentary work has been broadcast
nationally and
published throughout the web on Free Speech TV, PhillyCAM and
ArtGrease. She
has received awards for her work including fellowships from ARTS
Council of the
Southern Finger Lakes and The New York State Council of the Arts
(NYSCA) among
others. She was very much part of the cultural ecosystem in
Buffalo, serving as interim Executive Director at Squeaky Wheel
(2015-2016),
working with community arts nonprofits, like the Buffalo
International Film
Festival. She is also Lumiflux Media’s Executive Director, and
since 2013 has
worked to ensure that the organization sustainably stewards a
dynamic roster of
media productions.</span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
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</span></span><span
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"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.a--a.org/"><span
style="color:blue">http://www.a--a.org/</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">Stephanie Rothenberg’s (</span><span
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New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><span
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New Roman""><span
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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times">(</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">in association with </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Coalesce</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span
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New Roman""><span
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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""></span></span></span></span></span>)</span></span>
interdisciplinary artworks make visible the physical and
imaginary networks that create technological utopias. Moving
between real and virtual spaces, she explores how new
technologies mediate our everyday experiences and connect us to
larger global systems. Her artworks that engage digital media,
plant life and networks have been exhibited in venues including
House of Electronic Arts (HeK), MASS MoCA, LABoral, Sundance
Film Festival, Transmediale and ZKM. She is a recipient of
numerous grants and awards including a Creative Capital.
Residencies include the LMCC Workspace program, Eyebeam and the
Santa Fe Art Institute. Her work is in the collection of the
Whitney Museum and has been widely reviewed including Artforum,
The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. Rothenberg received her MFA
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the
Department of Art at SUNY Buffalo. <o:p></o:p></span><span
class="gmail-s1"><span
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.stephanierothenberg.com">http://www.stephanierothenberg.com</a></span></span><span
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New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""><o:p></o:p></span> </p>
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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#1A1A1A">Ekrem Serdar (</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#1A1A1A"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Squeaky Wheel film and media art center,
Buffalo, USA) </span>is the curator for </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#1A1A1A"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#1A1A1A"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Squeaky Wheel, </span></span>responsible
for the organization’s exhibitions, public programming, and
artist residencies. Previously, he was a programmer with
Experimental Response Cinema (Austin, TX) which he co-founded.
He is the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2017), a SAHA
Scholarship for the ICI Curatorial Intensive New Orleans (2017),
and a Professional Development Fellowship from the Robert
Flaherty Film Seminar (2015). He is an advisory member of
Experimental Response Cinema, and the FOL Cinema Society
(Istanbul). His writing has appeared in <i>The Brooklyn Rail</i>,
<i>Millennium Film Journal</i>, <i>5harfliler</i>, among
others. He completed his B.A. in Critical Studies, and his M.F.A
in Media Arts Production at the Department of Media Study at
SUNY Buffalo. He is from Ankara, Turkey. <a
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href="http://squeaky.org">http://squeaky.org</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">Kathy High
(nature lab, Troy, USA) is an artist / educator who collaborates
with scientists and others, and considers living
systems, eco-empathy and animal sentience, and the social,
political and ethical dilemmas of biotechnology and medical
industries. She has received awards including Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. High is Professor
in Arts, and oversees a lab in Center for Biotechnology and
Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, NY. She is NATURE Lab coordinator with community media
organization, The Sanctuary for Independent Media. She is Vivo Art
resident at Center for Microbiome Sciences & Therapeutic,
DePaolo Lab, UofW, Seattle. </span><span
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New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
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href="https://www.mediasanctuary.org/">https://www.mediasanctuary.org/</a></span>
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