[-empyre-] Introducing Glorious Ninth: Kate Southworth and Patrick Simons

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

dear  list,  please welcome sound/net artists/theorists Glorious Ninth!

April may be the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, 
pace Eliot.   if so, we might dig around in the dirt and messy edges 
Alan Sondheim has just invoked, around and about our   perennial 
borders and see if any new blooms are coming up.  Coming to 
soft-skinned space from la primavera in Cornwall,  Glorious Ninth (UK) 
will lead us into an inquiry about matrixial space, the feminist theory 
of transubjectivity, and how it critiques and extends  interactive 
media design, theory and practice...for the next two weeks, April 1-15, 
2005.  The perennial border in question blurs  la frontera between art 
and psychoanalytic theory, between art and curatorial and critical 
practice.


Kate Southworth
Patrick Simons


Kate writes,

"The matrixial sphere theorised by feminist psychoanalysist and artist, 
Bracha Ettinger refers us to intimate sharing between co-emerging 
partial subjects in which the 'non-I is not an intruder' to be 
assimilated or rejected but is instead a 'partner in difference'.

Patrick and I have been working together on Internet art projects since 
2000.  Our work explores personal, social and historical phenomena each 
using a variety of aesthetic, political, theoretical and conceptual 
approaches.  We each draw on different theories and methodologies to 
make sense of the work we produce individually and together. From the 
beginning, our intention was to work within a creative space that 
placed value on our ability to adjust to each others' thinking and 
emotions.

Within Bracha Ettinger's Matrix Theory, borderlines, thresholds and 
limits are continually transgressed and dissolved, allowing new 
borderlines to emerge, to be crossed and to fade.  Our work comes about 
through an inter-weaving of ethics and aesthetics.  Aurally, visually 
and conceptually our pieces ebb and flow, and the elements within the 
pieces co-emerge and co-fade in ever-changing patterns that constantly 
shift focus.

The space between our different approaches is Glorious Ninth, and it is 
through this process that we collaborate.  We don't fuse together nor 
do we magnetically repel each other, but we seem to continually 
re-adjust our focus through different 'ways of knowing'. '


Please welcome Glorious Ninth for "Border Crossings"


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------------------------------------>Glorious Ninth
Kate  Southworth and Patrick Simons have been working together on 
Internet art projects since 2000.  Their work explores personal, social 
and historical phenomena each using a variety of aesthetic, political, 
theoretical and conceptual approaches.  Glorious Ninth have exhibited 
Internet art projects at galleries and museums including Newlyn 
Gallery, Cornwall, Evergreen Cultural Centre, British Columbia, Canada 
and the Irish Film Centre, Dublin.  They are featured in several net 
art databases including Martin Wattenberg's Net Art Idea Line on the 
Whitney Museum's Artport site, Rhizome Artbase, and Soundtoys. In 2005 
Glorious Ninth are participating in a number of collaborative 
exhibitions including Net:Reality, A UK national touring exhibition of 
New Media artworks which simultaneously exist within networked and 
physical space, and Artytechs Parlour, Port Eliot Literary Festival, 
St. Germans, Cornwall.


______________________>Kate Southworth
Kate Southworth is an Internet artist working within a feminist 
framework.  Her work focuses on the co-emergence of knowledge, and on 
trying to understand and articulate different ways of knowing ourselves 
and others through processes of interaction. Kate received an MSc in 
Multimedia Systems from London Metropolitan University, UK and a BA 
(Hons) in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.  She is 
currently undertaking a practice-led PhD at the University of Leeds, UK 
researching Matrixial spaces within interactive art. Kate is currently 
based at University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, where she is leader 
of the Interactive Art & Design Research Cluster, and Course Leader of 
MA Interactive Art & Design.  She has taught Multimedia and Interactive 
Arts at London Metropolitan University, UK and Dublin City University, 
Ireland.

------------------------------------>Patrick Simons
Patrick Simons is a composer and sound artist.  He makes artistic 
enquiries into the material world and tries to communicate his findings 
using many different approaches to data mapping.
He was a professional musician for eleven years, and also co-ordinated 
and managed arts projects with various culturally diverse community 
groups, Patrick is currently based at Falmouth College of Arts, 
Cornwall, UK where he is a part-time tutor on the MA Interactive Art & 
Design programme. His most recent soundwork 'd-flat01' which recently 
was exhibited in the elevator as part of the science-art exhibition 
Blip@Newlyn, is included in the current edition of drunken boat 
(http://www.drunkenboat.com).







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