<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>I love the bookshelf prompt, it's encouraging me to emerge from lurk status and celebrate a recent book binge. </div><div><br></div><div>Currently, I've got two categories of "to read" materials going. The first is for a class on creative collaboration I'm teaching with my collaborator Catalina Alvarez at Abrons Art Center via the School of Making Thinking. The class is called <span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:12px"><i><a href="http://www.theschoolofmakingthinking.com/classes.html">The Collaboration Agreement: Designing for Creative Conflict and Consent</a> </i>and is designed for creative collaborators to develop a collaboration agreement that functions as a living contract to guide ethical and vibrant creativity. It takes place remotely Wednesday evenings in April. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size:12px">Catalina and I are sharing a big pile of relevant books and texts... and we're planning a self-directed "reading residency" (a lifelong dream!) to tear through these materials and make final reading selections. </span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size:12px"><br><b>Books:</b></span></font></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">John-Steiner, Vera. <i>Creative Collaboration</i>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Bishop, Claire. <i>Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship</i>. London: Verso, 2012.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Brown, Adrienne Maree. <i>Emergent Strateg</i>y. CA: AK Press, 2017.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">de Wachter, Ellen Mara. <i>Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration</i>. London: Phaidon, 2017.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Sholette, Gregory and Blake Stimson, eds. <i>Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945</i>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Sholette, Gregory. <i>Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture</i>. London: Pluto Press, 2011.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-style:normal"><br>Grant, H. Kester. </span><i>Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art</i>. CA: UC Press, 2013.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b><br></b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>Not exactly books:</b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><a href="https://presspress.info/content/3-document/2-manifesto-for-tender-collaborative-work/a-tender-talk.pdf"><i>Manifesto for Tender Collaborative Work</i><span style="font-style:normal"> by press_press, Baltimore</span></a></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><a href="https://loomio.coop/working_together">The cooperative handbook</a> by Loomio, an open source worker-owned software company in New Zealand</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Paul Ryan's <a href="http://earthscore.org/New%20Format/Curriculae/threeing_curriculum.html">Threeing</a> concept</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">May excellent <a href="https://studycollaboration.com/#resources">resources </a>from The Study Center for Group Work. </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-weight:normal">Finally, I've also been reading some </span><b>stuff not related to collaboration</b>, namely Emily St. John Mandel's <i style="font-weight:normal">The Glass Hotel</i>, and Hilary Mantel's novel on the French Revolution, <i style="font-weight:normal">A Place of Greater Safety</i>, both of which have some disturbing parallels to current economic and political situations IRL. </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>Bio:</b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px "Helvetica Neue"">I'm an artist, curator, writer, and digital experience designer. I work with archives, digital tools, and collaboration to develop exhibitions, writing, and multimedia projects that are focussed on exploring time, ecology, governance, idealism, and futility.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> I also work with teams to make software and websites for (and sometimes about) money.</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:12px "Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-style:normal">I've written about Ant Farm, the Videofreex, </span><i>Radical Software</i> and other topics related to media art for publications including <i style="">Afterimage</i>,<i> Intercourse</i>, and <i style="">The Creators Project</i>. In 2016 I co-curated <i style="">The Present Is the Form of All Life</i><i style="font-style:normal">,</i> an exhibition of the time capsule works of Ant Farm, and their successor group LST, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. </p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:12px "Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px "Helvetica Neue"">I'm one half of Epicurean Endocrinology – a collaborative citizen-scientist performance art and installation project with Byron Rich – that uses the practices and conventions of science and cooking to investigate gender constructions and endocrine disruptors in the built environment.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:12px "Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Currently, I'm working on a project (collaboratively of course) to preserve the Ant Farm-designed Antioch College Art Building, and making an experimental documentary about the architectural and institutional traces of a series of pedagogical experiments originating from Antioch's alternative approach to education. </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 6:00 PM Amanda McDonald Crowley <<a href="mailto:amandamcdc@gmail.com">amandamcdc@gmail.com</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----------------------<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>
Thanks Cristina for making this post and introducing yourself. We are thrilled you have joined us. Just a reminder to all of our members to post your "bookshelf" and a recent bio to introduce yourself. <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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