<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1sd" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH"><div dir="ltr">Dear -empyre-,<br><br>Many many thanks to Fabi, Ricardo, Tony, Rhonda,
Liat, Elia, Jon, WhiteFeather, Lucian, and Joanna for contributing to
the fascinating conversation around MODERNITY'S SPELL. As always, the
conversation can continue as we introduce this new week.<br><br><div>This
final week, we invoke the theme of QUEER PARANORMAL, the title of the
current show curated by the 2Chairs Collective and Anne Thompson at the
Bennington College Usdan Gallery (up until Dec. 07) -- to think about
queerness, haunting, the past, and social change.</div><div><br></div><div>So looking forward to reading everyone's
thoughts.<br></div><div><br></div><div>M<br></div><div><br></div><div>...<br><br>Two Chairs (curatorial collective, US)<br>Two
Chairs is a curatorial enterprise made up of artists, curators and
thinkers. Since 2014, Two Chairs has produced multiple projects that
stage dynamic associations between artists and engage unexpected
sites—including a stream in Vermont, St. Mark’s Bookstore in NYC, and a
Manhattan living room in an old-school Yorkville apartment. <br><br><br>Rachel Stevens (US) she/her/hers<br>Rachel
Stevens is an artist, researcher and educator based in New York City.
Her interdisciplinary and often collaborative work (sculpture,
photography, video, internet archives, artist books, spatial practices
and curatorial projects) investigates ecologies and geographies, moving
images and archives. Stevens has presented at art and academic venues
from Socrates Sculpture Park in NYC to ISEA in Durban, SA. Her work has
been supported with residencies and grants from Casa GIAP (MX),
Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Italy), iLand, Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council, Polar Circuit (Finland), Puffin Foundation, Signal Culture,
Signal Fire and Works on Water at Governors Island in NYC. She writes on
media art and visual culture, is on the editorial board of Millennium
Film Journal and teaches in the Hunter College Department of Film and
Media. she/her/hers<br><br><br>Efrén Cruz Cortés<br><div>Efrén’s
research is on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, developing
theory and algorithms for ML tasks involving complex data. E also
studies the fair use of algorithms in an automated society. To
understand how to “fairly” use AI in society we must understand
“fairness” in a mathematical sense, as well as the limitations and
potentialities of artificially intelligent systems. E sees collaboration
with artists and performers as a way to both bring ideas to the public
and to challenge our rotten econo-political system from an
aestheto-critical perspective. Besides contributions regarding fairness
in autoamtion, E’s expertise in AI and ML will aid APRIORI in
formulation of theory, analysis and computation related to these topics,
as well as contributions in network science. Efrén somehow got a PhD in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Efrén likes
tacos.</div><br><br>Jessica Posner (US) she/ her/ hers<br>Jessica Posner
is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, writer, educator, energy
worker, and organizer who practices resilience and radical vulnerability
as means for healing the self, body, and spirit. Posner’s 2017
experimental film, BUTTER BODY POLITIC, embraces butter as a metaphor
for a delicious, fat, feminist, queer body politic. Posner has been
working through the BUTTER BODY POLITIC since 2013, and created a
variety of buttery experiences including live performances, sculpture,
text, video, and workshops. In 2019, Posner edited all of the men out of
the movie JAWS, and then performed karaoke and theory about it.<br><br>Posner
lives in Syracuse, NY, where she co-organizes the FLANNEL queer women’s
event at Wunderbar in Syracuse, NY. Posner previously taught courses in
Studio Art, Transmedia, and Writing at universities in Upstate New
York. She recently guest edited a section of exhibition reviews for the
special Stonewall 50th anniversary edition of QED: A Journal of GLBTQ
Worldmaking (Michigan State University Press).</div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>--<br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,204,204)"><a href="http://beforebefore.net" target="_blank">beforebefore.net</a></span><br><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>