<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hello everyone, and welcome to the September -empyre soft skinned space discussion. </font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This week I am delighted to introduce our first two guests. Two people whose work and research I admire greatly, Paul Lloyd Sargent (<a href="http://recycledcarbon.com/" target="_blank">http://recycledcarbon.com/</a>), and Alex Young (<a href="http://www.worldshaving.info/" target="_blank">http://www.worldshaving.info/ </a>).</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Our topic:</b></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As political borders morph from physical demarcations into an undulating system of technologically mediated philosophical boundaries between ideologies and influence, our interpretations of sovereignty, individually, and collectively have shifted. From the US election to Brexit, and the on-going refugee crisis, artists, and scholars are responding as technocrats seem unable, or unwilling to tackle the mechanisms inherent to their platforms that allow for unfettered dissemination of (mis)information designed to destabilize ostensibly democratic institutions. In this month’s –empyre soft-skinned space discussion, we will use the work and research of our invited guests to look into how we arrived at this point by investigating borders, conspiracy, the rise of nationalism, and the ways artists are shaping conversations about what lies ahead.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Guest Bios:</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">Paul Lloyd Sargent is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and video editor living between Brooklyn, Syracuse, and Wellesley Island, NY. Embracing a contemporary amalgam of emerging media, experimental geography, community organizing, sustainable culture, and environmental activism as art practice, Sargent’s work investigates the impact of the international shipping industry on the ecologies, economies, and communities along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">Alex Young is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose research based practice employs critical and experimental historiography in exploring the motivating factors and end results—and the subsequent potential for disconnection between the two—in the construction of the built environment. His solo and collaborative works have been presented at numerous venues internationally including Conflux at NYU, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, and Flux Factory in New York, NY; Kiasma Museum and Alkovi Galleria in Helsinki, Finland; ACC Galerie in Weimar, Germany; Stadtische Museen Zittau in Zittau, Germany; Spanien 19C in Aarhus, Denmark; SDAI in San Diego, CA; Beyond/ In Western New York Biennial, UB Art Gallery, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY amongst others.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><b>Paul and Alex, perhaps you can start by introducing your work as artists, curators, and theorists, and begin to speculate on how the topic reflects aspects of your practice, or on how you see your practice adapting to the precarity outlined above. </b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">All the best,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">Byron</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><br></p></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 6:37 PM Renate Terese Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br> Welcome to Byron Rich. I am thrilled to introduce you all to our monthly moderator for September. Byron and I have worked together on mutual interests at the College Art Association particularly a panel a year ago on BioArt. I have included his biography below. He is traveling in Stockholm so will introduce soon. Thanks Byron and welcome to all his guests who are new to –empyre-soft-skinned space <br>
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I also wanted to mention that many of you have written back channel about the very flimsy state of our website hosted by Cornell. The Cornell IT folks are aware of these issues but have been swamped. Stay tuned for a new update. <br>
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Welcome back. Renate<br>
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Moderators: Byron Rich (CAN) <br>
Byron Rich is an artist, professor and lecturer based in Meadville, PA. His work exists on<br>
the boundaries of ethics, practicality, and the feasibility of emerging technologies and<br>
ideologies. He has exhibited and spoken internationally at Ars Electronica, ZKM<br>
Karlsruhe, Science Gallery Dublin, Border Sessions @ Den Haag, Shapeshifters in<br>
Brussels, Waag in Amsterdam, and MediaLab Prado in Madrid, among many other<br>
art/science venues.<br>
He was the recipient of an Honorary Mention at the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica, Runner<br>
up for the 2016 BioArt & Design Award, and recently received a commission from The<br>
Science Gallery Dublin to produce M-Ark (Microbiome Ark), a speculative design project<br>
designed to be put into earth orbit. M-Ark was recently exhibited at Cavendish Labs at<br>
Cambridge University in the UK.<br>
He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art, and Director of Art & Technology at<br>
Allegheny College.<br>
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Renate Ferro<br>
Visiting Associate Professor<br>
Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>
Department of Art<br>
Tjaden Hall 306<br>
<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a><br>
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