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<p>dear -empyre-</p>
<p>if i may, allow me to get back to june, 2018.</p>
<p>question (1): why mycelium network?</p>
<p>question (2): why a society?</p>
<p>question (3): how to start a network?</p>
<p>mycelium as an after nature's network, to quote-</p>
<p><i>***I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of
nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with
information-sharing membranes. …..The mycelium stays in constant
molecular communication with its environment, devising diverse
enzymatic and chemical responses to complex challenges.</i> -
Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the
World<br>
<br>
<i>***We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and
ecological ruination….. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin
tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to
pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us—
but it might open our imaginations.</i> - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,
The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life
in capitalist ruins<br>
</p>
<p>______</p>
<p>The project Mycelium Network Society was inspired by artist
Taro's myco-logick project at infolab Stadtwerkstatt during
STWST48 (a 48 hours festival hosted by Stadtwerkstatt and in
association with Ars Electronica) in 2015. Taro grows fabulous
mushrooms sculpted by his own will. That year, Taro launched 2
weather balloons filled with fungal spores to the stratosphere,
anticipating these balloons to expand while rising and finally
burst at a height of approximately 30km, releasing the spores to
continue direction outer space and/or to fall back on earth, where
they possibly find suitable conditions to spread their
information. <br>
</p>
<p>The project is a powerful poetic gesture. It prompted us to
consider a free will network possibility, post-NET, (after) the
nature. When we (Shu Lea Cheang of cycleX and Franz Xaver of
Stadtwerkstatt ) first started Mycelium Network Society (MNS), we
were excited to 'discover' many artists who work with mycilium,
mushroom, spores, culture+++ as (art) medium. When MNS was first
presented at transmediale2017, we showcased some artists works - <span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">myco-logick
(since 2015) by Taro<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times">,
Mycophone_unison
(since 2013) by Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj</span><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">,
</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Radio
Mycelium (since 2011) by Martin Howse, </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">The
T-shroom (since 2002) by </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Times">Kartina Neiburga and Art bureau
OPEN. In this same year, we hosted a residency at Eleonore/STWST
in Linz, Austria. We held an open call for artists and got some
great responses, finally selected three artists, Azucena
Sanchez, </span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Servando Barreiro</span>
and <span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Callum Caplan,
their residency works would consequently be presented at
STWST48x3 in September. After this year's
presentation/exhibition, we were referred to, introduced to many
more artists who work with mycelium culture matter and came to
realize that it was not quite possible for us to keep hosting
residency, holding exhibitions. There is also carbon matters
that concern us for transporting artists. <br>
</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thus, the
consideration - asking local art agencies to host
residency/expositions and we connect via agencies (NODES) to
build the network. The question arise, do we go through EU
funding route? Getting a few organizations and launch a network,
s shared platform? The recent network initiative example being
the NEW NETWORK NORMAL, NNN (a partnership project by </span><em><a
href="http://www.andfestival.org.uk/">Abandon Normal Devices</a>
(uk), <a href="http://www.cccb.org/en"
onclick="__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article',
'http://www.cccb.org/en', 'Centre de Cultura Contemporània de
Barcelona');">Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona</a> (CCCB)
(es), <a href="http://theinfluencers.org/en"
onclick="__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article',
'http://theinfluencers.org/en', 'The Influencers');">The
Influencers</a><strong> </strong>(es), transmediale (de) and <a
href="https://strp.nl/en/" onclick="__gaTracker('send',
'event', 'outbound-article', 'https://strp.nl/en/', 'STRP');">STRP</a> (nl).
</em>We didnt take this route, (well! administration alone would
drive us a bit insane!) , instead, we thought to start with
writing to art spaces we know, Furtherfield in London, Apo33<em> </em>in
Nantes, FACT in Liverpool.....<em>Then, </em><em></em>In March, i
had a chance to go back to New York for some lectures, travelling
through Buffalo, Troy and New York city, signing on node<em>s </em>to
'adopt a network".<span class="title"><span class="about"><span> I
shook hands with Paul Vanouse at his </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
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mso-bidi-font-family:Courier;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Coalesce Center for Biological Art at
the University
at Buffalo, took an agreement photo with Ekrem, Anne, Stephanie
at Squeaky, and at </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""><a
href="https://www.mediasanctuary.org/"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">the
Santuary
for Independent Media , we had a public voting to sign on
its Nature lab (directed by Kathy High) as
part of MNS. <br>
</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><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""><a
href="https://www.mediasanctuary.org/"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"></span></a></span></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>The
simple guidelines apply-</p>
<p><em></em><span class="title"><span class="about"><span>CYCLE 1 -
ADOPT A NETWORK <br>
(1)To adopt the network concept as art
spaces/collectives/labs that host artist projects.<br>
(2)To focus on artists who work with mycelium, fungus,
spores as art and network medium.<br>
(3)To organize workshops/residencies/exhibitions.<br>
(4)To cultivate your own local mycelium network, independent
and autonomous.<br>
(5)To share information, resources and be part of larger
global network.<br>
(6)To harvest spores from your local mushrooms and make
spore prints for node to node spores exchange.<br>
(7)To collect spores towards a global spores release party.<br>
(8)To be part of a book to be published along with the
spores’ release.</span></span></span></p>
And now we ask ourselves, how to get this network started? how can
such autonomous, self managed network grow/branch out under/above
ground?
<p>Is it at all possible???</p>
<p>OVER<br>
Sl<br>
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On 01/06/18 08:53, Shu Lea Cheang wrote:<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
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New Roman"">
<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
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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>
<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"">[flashback]<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p>
<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>
<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"">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;
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">organic
garlic was </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">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>
</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"">[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>
<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""></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>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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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"">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
明朝";mso-ascii-font-family:
Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ
明朝";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
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>
<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"">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"
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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>
<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: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>
<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: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;
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"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://furtherfield.org">http://furtherfield.org</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt
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458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><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><span
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
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""></span><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://www.buffalo.edu/gem/coalesce">http://www.buffalo.edu/gem/coalesce</a></span></p>
<span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman""></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
11.0cm 326.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#1A1A1A"></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"> </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">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
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
<span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""></span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"><o:p></o:p></span>
<span style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"><o:p></o:p></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
11.0cm 326.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
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
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; 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""><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: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
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""></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
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:
"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
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>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
11.0cm 326.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
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
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mediasanctuary.org/">https://www.mediasanctuary.org/</a></span>
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