<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all, and thanks Renate for the prompt. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I've been a frequent reader and occasional contributor to this generous space pretty much since its inception!!</div><div><br></div><div>Currently on my desk or in my reading pile - totally eclectic and in no particular order:</div><div><br></div><div>Legacy Russell, <i>Glitch Feminism: a manifesto</i>, 2020, Verso Books</div><div>Zadie Smith, <i>Intimations</i>, 2020, Penguin Books</div><div>Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, 1985, Oxford University Press</div><div>Luz Calvo & Catriona Rueda Esquibel Deloconize Your Diet: plant-based Mexican American Recipes for Health and Healing, 2017, Arsenal Pulp Press</div><div>Michael Rakowitz and friends, A House Without a Date Palm Will Never Starve, 2019, Art Books Publishing in Association with Plinth</div><div>Chloë Bass, #sky #nofilter, 2020, Double Cross Press</div><div>Hilary Cottam, Radical Help: How We Can Remake Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State, 2018, Virago Press</div><div>James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, 2018, Verso</div><div>McKenzie Wark, capitalism is dead is this something worse? 2019, Verso</div><div>Questlove, Something to Food About, 2016, Penguin Random House</div><div>Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elain Gan, Nils Bubandt (eds) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, 2017, University of Minnesota Press</div><div>and I have on pre-order:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A recent bio:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">Amanda McDonald Crowley</strong> is a cultural worker, curator, and educator. Amanda works at the intersection of art, science, and technology; and supports public art platforms that bring together professionals and amateurs from varied disciplines to generate dialogue and create space for audience engagement.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">Amanda is with Mary Mattingly on Swale; LigoranoReese on School of Good Citizenship; has advisory roles on artist-led projects including Vibha Galhotra’s S.O.U.L Foundation, Delhi; Juanli Carrión’s OSS Project NY; Di Mainstone’s Human Harp, UK; and in 2019 curated Amy Khoshbin’s TinyScissors pop-up tattoo parlor for Detroit Art Week. [Unfortunately I've just had to scratch the note that I was working towards the exhibition for SLSA2021 at U Michigan as they have very sadly decided that they cannot proceed with an exhibition to accompany the symposium in our current complicated times.]</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">Amanda has held leadership positions with Eyebeam in NYC, Australian Network for Art and Technology, ISEA2004, Helsinki, Adelaide Festival 2002, and has done curatorial residencies at HIAP (Finland), Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), Sarai (India), and Banff Center for the Arts (Canada).A recent bio</p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:37 PM Renate Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</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----------------------<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>
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On 1/25/21, 4:22 PM, "<a href="mailto:empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au" target="_blank">empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a> on behalf of Albu, Cristina" <<a href="mailto:empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au" target="_blank">empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:albuc@umkc.edu" target="_blank">albuc@umkc.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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