<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Shu Lea....<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the invitation. I still hold dearly the opportunities you <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">g</span>ave me and so many women artists in NYC of the 1990's.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've been working on an opus called CONSTRUKTS<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> (<a href="http://www.contrukts.com">www.contrukts.com</a>)</span> for over a decade. Started as a computational <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">experiment in catalyzing collective narratives in real-time through play... the project has transformed and transpired as new technical voices and funders have fleeted through the design and production process. Funded over a time period of about 17 years, to the tune of around $1M, over 40 engineers, designers, and students have helped to shape my fanciful dream. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But it's not enough...support has been spread so thinly over such a long time period, continuity in design and development has been very hard... if not almost impossible.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">NOW... I just need a hardy benefactor be they from the corporate, foundation, or venture world to finish this project such that it can get out into the world. Coming from the arts while developing an engineering feat has kept many people engaged in the wonderment of "how could an artist build such a thing?".... wait, let me adjust that statement, "how could a black woman, who is also an artists... build such a thing?" </span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But it's not enough... and it's been exhausting... realizing that if this project were developed by a white dude or dudette... it would probably be finished by now. It would be out in the world. It would have received tech transfer support from the multiple universitites that have paid me a paycheck. Some aspect of the system, whether whole or in pieces, would be a steady revenue stream supporting new projects pushing the edges of technology, culture, and creativity.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 3:00 AM Shu Lea Cheang <<a href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net" target="_blank">shulea@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
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This week, we invite you all to share and post your proposal(s)
that stay unfinished if you so wish...
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<p> a note on posting your STAY unfinished proposal, unfinished,
yet still working on, keeping alive... <br>
please use this same subject line <br>
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<p>proposal proposal +++ and add a title of your project. i.e.
proposal proposal +++ my beautiful day - Shu Lea Cheang</p>
<p>sorry to be so specific, want to keep the archive threaded by
subject also.<br>
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<p>.... meanwhile i caught up with a few old friends,
collaborators who respond to the call for posting the proposals.
I would like to introduce them to get the proposal postings
started for the week.</p>
<p>a multi-thread week, pick one, pick two, three to follow....<br>
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<p>many thanks to all</p>
<p>sl<br>
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<li><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">Pamela
L. Jennings</span><b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">
</span></b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">is nationally recognized as a
thought leader for integrative research and learning across
the arts and STEM. A Ph.D. from the CAIIA program through
the University of Plymouth School of Computing, Electronics,
and Mathematics, creative problem solving through
computational thinking, creativity, and technology is the
catalyst of Pamela’s policy, philanthropic, academic,
research, and entrepreneurial projects.<span> </span>She has advocated for
integrative learning and research across a range of
institutions from serving as a National Science Foundation
Program Officer; advisor to the National Academies of
Sciences and research designer at the IBM Almaden and SRI
International think tanks. Pamela has been the founding
director and leader of several innovation creativity
initiatives in higher education in the United States and
Canada.<span> </span>She is the
Chief Imagineer of CONSTRUKTS, Inc. </span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana" lang="EN">that
is developing a next-Gen mixed-reality learning platform.<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">Pamela’s
engagement in technology research, MAKING, and product
innovation has a foundation in her work as a digital media
artist. </span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana" lang="EN">Her work has been funded and
supported by the National Science Foundation, Rockefeller
Foundation, Microsoft, New York Council on the Arts, and
Wolfram Research.<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.pamelajennings.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>http://www.pamelajennings.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">
| </span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.construkts.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>http://www.construkts.com</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Verdana">Isabelle
Arvers is a French artist and curator exploring for over 20
years the fields of digital art and video game, on formal as
well as ethical and critical approaches. Her work explores
the hacking possibilities of video games and mostly
materializes in films called machinimas to be screened in
on-site performative installation spaces. Arvers’ work
grounded on collaborative experiences reflects all the
possibilities of the "working together" processes. As a
curator, she focuses on video game as a new language and as
a medium for artists, notable exhibitions include Mind
Control (Banana RAM Ancona, Italy, 2004), Node Runner
(Paris, 2004), Playing Real (Gamerz, 2007), Game Heroes
(Alcazar, Marseille, 2011), Evolution of Gaming (Vancouver,
2014)., Gamelab (UCLA, LA 2015, 2017),<span> </span>Machinima in Mash Up
(Vancouver Art Gallery, 2016).<span>
</span>In 2019, she embarks on an art and games world tour
in non western countries to promote diversity of gender,
sexuality and geographic origin and focuses on queer,
feminist and decolonial practices. Working towards an
exhibition and an international conference on post colonial
game studies to be held at la Sorbonne in 2020, her reports
on the research tour can be read online in Usbek & Rica,
Poptronics, Immersion.<u></u><u></u></span><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Verdana"><br>
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<li><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Verdana"><a class="gmail-m_-1032860237865210485m_5450059499428438623moz-txt-link-freetext" rel="noreferrer">http://</a> </span><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">www.isabellearvers.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Verdana"><u></u><u></u></span><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.isabellearvers.com/category/art-and-games-world-tour/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"> |
http://www.isabellearvers.com/category/art-and-games-world-tour/</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span>Jamika Ajalon is an author / wordist and
inter-disciplinary artist, Jamika Ajalon works with
different mediums independently, but also in multiple
fusions- incorporating written and spoken text,
sound/music, and visuals. Her poems, stories and essays
have been published in various digital and hard copy
publications internationally. She is a columnist for Itchy
Silk magazine (“queer plume: the fugitive diaries”), co
conspirator at </span><span><a href="http://lpressl.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>lpressl.com</span></a></span><span>, guest lecturer , (including Vienna Arts
Academy, and American University Paris),vocalist, writer/
musician, (Zenzile/Jamika & the Argonauts). She has
performed her audio visual anti lectures /sonic slam, and
exhibited widely, (including Rennes Biennale of contemporary
art,(2018),DISTURBANCE expo Kunsthalle Leipzig,(2017),Beton
Salon, Paris (2017). She has a BA Film/Video, MA
Communications in Culture and Society, Goldsmiths
University,London. Her book poetry “Take Back the
Narrative” is now available for public consumption. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana"><a href="http://www.jamikaajalon.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>www.jamikaajalon.com</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">Andrew Gryf Paterson (SCO/FI)
is a Scottish 'artist-organiser', cultural producer,
educator and independent researcher. He specialises in
developing and leading inter- and trans- disciplinary
projects exploring connections between art, digital culture
and science, cultural activism, ecological and
sustainability movements, cultural heritage and
collaborative networks. Strengths lie in hybridity,
communications, organisation and network arts: the ability
to bring together and involve people in creative,
collaborative exploration, developing temporary communities,
gathering unexpected elements and components as new spaces
of/for cultural activity. What is left behind as social,
digital, material and ephemeral residue of 'being t/here'
has been a consistent concern. Archived more or less here. <span><span class="gmail-m_-1032860237865210485m_5450059499428438623MsoHyperlink"><a class="gmail-m_-1032860237865210485m_5450059499428438623moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://agryfp.info" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://agryfp.info</a></span></span></span></li>
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