<div dir="ltr"><div>My reading list is getting longer from what everyone is sharing. Thank you all!</div><div><br></div><div>Here are some at the top of my list.</div><br><i>The New Normal </i>by Benjamin Bratton ed., 2021<br><i>Subprime Attention Crisis</i> by Tim Hwang, 2020.<br><i>Thinking Fast and Slow</i> by Daniel Kahneman, 2013<br><i>The Future of the New</i> by Thijs Lijster ed., 2019<br><i>Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark</i> by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, 2020<br><i>Atlas of Anomalous AI</i> by Ben Vickers & K. Allado-McDowell ed., 2021<br><div><i>Software for Artists Book: Building Better Realities </i>by Willa Koerner ed., 2020<br></div><div><i>On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous</i> by Ocean Vuong, 2019</div><br>Bio: Michael Borowski is an artist living and working in occupied Tutelo/Moneton land (Blacksburg, Virginia). He works with an expanded photographic practice to critically engage with architecture, technology, and the environment. Construction and fabrication are recurring metaphors in his work, which inhabits an ambiguous space between truth and fiction. Borowski approaches the built environment as a kind of fiction in order to show that design is not neutral, but reflects political values, personal biases, and desires. His work has been exhibited at the Soho Photo Gallery (NY), Site:Brooklyn (NY), The Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CO), the Prairie Center for the Arts (IL), The Czong Institute of Contemporary Art (Korea), and Espace Projet (Montreal, QC). He is a 2019 recipient of a Graham Foundation grant.<br><br>He received his MFA in Art and Design from the University of Michigan in 2011, and a BFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico in 2003. Borowski is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Visual Art at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, VA.<span></span><div>
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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:15 PM Renate Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu">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>
Hello -empyre- subscribers. <br>
What a great opportunity to take some time away from my studio to assimilate some of the resources that I am hoping to read in early 2021. Looking forward to hearing about your own choices. Please feel free to post your own list and also a biography of who you are and what you do. Happy New Year to all. Renate<br>
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Acoustic Entanglements: Sound and Aesthetic Practice by Kim Sabine 2017<br>
Sabine's book addresses the resonance between sound and culture signified by voice, memory, and movement. Looking forward to seeing how this resource will inspire two ongoing projects: REMOTE SENSING AND VIRAL TECHNICS which connect remembrance by highlighting trauma. These projects incorporate sound, animated visual sequences and projection, <br>
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You are the Weather, 2017<br>
by Roni Horn<br>
An archival book about Horn's thoughts about the weather. I am using this book as I proceed with my ongoing project I SPY A STORM. A series of large-scale drawings, sculpture, and multi-media based on a storm that wrecked havoc in our wooded area where the wind and water downed thirty three century old trees. <br>
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These titles are general items of interest: <br>
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Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, 2020 <br>
by Legacy Russell<br>
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Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s, 2020<br>
Edited by Ann Adachi-Tasch, Go Hirasawa, Julian Ross.<br>
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Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era, 2021<br>
by Jaimie Baron<br>
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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, 2016<br>
by Thomas L. Friedman <br>
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Short Biography<br>
I am a conceptual artist who toggles between the zones of old and new technologies. My work mobilizes opportunities for creative interactivity that incorporates issues relating to feminist psychological and sociological conditions. Although the term feminist may be contentious to some, I favor the term for the qualifier, as it defines those of us in compromised positions in life. <br>
Also aligned to my conceptual practice is a process-oriented, dynamic, critically based research frame. My work takes on create skins whose configurations include installation, interactive net-based projects, digital time-based media, drawing, text, and performance-based work. These creative skins include participatory, collaborative, generative, and customizable characteristics impacting the networked quality and therefore the forward trajectory of the development of my ideas.<br>
Making art out of life’s materials and life’s materials out of art by blending the tactical material world with the networked immaterial world has enabled me to merge the real and the imaginary to experiment with sensation, affect and embodiment.<br>
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Her artistic work has been featured at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), The Freud Museum (London), The Dorksy Gallery (NY), The Hemispheric Institute and FOMMA (Mexico), and The Janus Pannonius Muzeum (Hungary). <br>
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Ferro is a Visiting Associate Professor of Art at Cornell University. She has been on the moderating team of -empyre- soft-skinned space since 2007 and is currently the curatorial moderator. <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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