[-empyre-] Farewell and Thanks to Tim, Priamo and Norie

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

Dear Tim, Priamo, and Norie, and all the participants in this month's
discussion on Unstable Ground:  Curating New Media....

Perhaps we can close the month of March with a quote -- this  expression of
gratitude from Tim-- written when the war started -- to all the list.

> I am extremely thankful to all of you who posted your concerns
> during the day of "No Business as Usual."  So many of us have had direct
> and indirect exchanges over the years thanks to exciting and energizing
> artworks and critical projects in new media.  To have us now pool our
> sensibilities for commentaries on this crucial moment of contemporary
> history is a testimony, as I see it, to the critical productivity of new
> media and its community of artists, curators, and theorists.

-empyre- is sustained by the voices of many and the silent readership of
many more.  Thanks to all of you and to Tim, Priamo and Norie for addressing
the curatorial questions of new media and pedagogy in a dark time.

Melinda, Christina, Rebecca and Michael

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Timothy Murray's new media curatorial projects have led him in
Different directions.  Many readers might be familiar with his exhibition,
"Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom" (http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu)
which 
toured
from 1999-2001 in the US, Mexico, Canada, and France.  He co-curated
the
"(off-line) 'net.art' contest" for INFOS 2002 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
He
co-curates with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker the on-line exhibition
space,
CTHEORY Multimedia, at <http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu>: recent
issues
include "Wired Ruins: Digital Terror and Ethnic Paranoia" and "Tech
Flesh:
The Promise and Perils of the Human Genome Project."  He also is
founder and
curator of The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at the Cornell
University Library.  A Professor of Comparative Literature and English,
he
has written catalogue essays for the ZKM in Karlsruhe, The Power Plant
in
Toronto, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, the Museum of Macau in
Macau;
and  he is completing Digital Intensities: Cultural Memory, Baroque
Theory,
and Electronic Art (University of Minnesota Press), and editing
Digitality
and the Memory of Cinema (Temple University Press).  His other books
include
Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, and
Art
(Routledge 1997) and Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen,
Camera, and
Canvas (Routledge 1993).  At Cornell University, he teaches courses in
the
history of video art, electronic art, digital bodies, French film, and
Introduction to Visual Studies, and most recently co-taught a course
with
Norie Neumark, of the University of Technology, Sydney, on "Electronic
Innovations: Technology and Art."



Norie Neumark <http://www.out-of-sync.com> is a sound/radio  and new
media
artist. As part of Out-of-Sync, a new media artistic partnership with
Maria
Miranda, she has collaborated on CD-Rom art, installations and
recently, on
net.art works. Their works include Shock in the Ear, Dead Centre,
Machine
Organs, Volcano and Journey to the C/enter. A significant concern for
Norie
is to work with and develop the sound interfaces to allow for
interactivity
in which sound plays an essential and engaging role. Norie is also a
critical theorist and teacher at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Norie
is currently a member of the Board of Sound Culture.

Priamo Lozada is  resident curator at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico
City
<http://www.artealameda.inba.gob.mx/>  Curatorial projects in 2002-3 in
electronic arts and new media include Thomas Glassford: Event Horizon,
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City;  ©¯Mona Hatoum©?, Laboratorio Arte
Alameda: Medi@arte Latino, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Ximena
Cuevas©?, Festival de Artes Electrónicas, Lima, Perú; ©¯Ximena Cuevas©?,
Casa
Bolívar,  Cartegena de Indias & Museo de Bellas Artes, Barranquilla,
Colombia; Daniel Buren, ©¯Cabañas estalladas©?, Laboratorio Arte Alameda;
Melanie Smith & Rafael Ortega, ©¯Seis pasos hacia la realidad©?,
Laboratorio
Arte Alameda; MexArtFest, Kyoto Art Center, Japan 2003; Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer
en ©¯Emoción Artificial©?, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brasil; Freewaves
Festival, Los Angeles;  Teresa Serrano, ©¯Formas de Violencia©?,
Laboratorio
Arte Alameda, Mexico City;  Nam June Paik, Laboratorio Arte Alameda,
Mexico
City; Les Leveque, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico Cityl; and Bruce
Nauman
Videos, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City.

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