[-empyre-] Re:"Is Modernity our Antiquity?" time extension

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

dear -empyreans-

Endings are a time to meditate on time (belatedly, sans doute):


with Jeremy Welsh, "struck by the poetry of "Is Modernity our  
Antiquity : time extension" which seems to say a lot about our  
relationship to both time and modernity"

and Eric Kluitenberg's observation " that a theoretically finite  
space can still be experientially and subjectively experienced as an  
infinity..."

and  with that,  we are left with the ruins of the month, and can  
sift through the debris in the archives to see if there are any  
useful tools or treasures hidden therein.

Thanks everyone for participating through patient reading and  
thoughtful posts,  to this very complex topic and discussion, which  
apparently will find its way into another media incarnation next year  
in Documenta 12 (Magazine Project).  I'll keep you posted on news of  
its release, whether on line or in print.

With what amazing verve people have engaged this topic! -- archived at:

https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-March/date.html

Contributions gratefully received from

Aliette Certhoux, Brett Stalbaum, Christiane Robbins, Christine  
Goldbeck, Millie Niss, Federico Bonelli, GH Hovagimyan, Henry  
Warwick, Isabelle Arvers, Lucio Agra, Marc Garrett, Pall Thayer,  
Patrick Lichty, Saul Ostrow, Simon Taylor, Thomas Schmidt, Brad  
Brace, Annick Bureaud, Regina Pinto, and Jeremy Welsh.



This month's theme was taken on by Christophe Bruno (FR), Dirk  
Vekemans (BE), Erik Kluitenberg (NL), Christiane Paul (US),   with   
moderator /  guest  Christina McPhee (US).






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-------------------------------guests for "Is Modernity our  
Antiquity?" March 2006 on -empyre- soft-skinned space



------------------------------------------------>Christophe Bruno  
(FR) lives and works in Paris. Awarded with an Honorary Mention at  
the Prix Ars Electronica 2003, he’s been exhibited internationally in  
many places: Transmediale, ICC, galerie Sollertis, Nuit Blanche, File  
Festival, Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris, Tirana Biennale,  
ReJoyce Festival, Microwave International Media Art Festival in Honk-  
Kong, P0es1s.net in Berlin, Read_Me, Vidarte in Mexico City....
http://www.christophebruno.com

----------------------------------------------->Erik Kluitenberg (NL)  
is a theorist, writer, and organiser on culture, media and  
technology. He is head of the media program at De Balie - Centre for  
Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, and teaches at the Institute for  
Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. He's contributed  
to organization and content at the International Symposium on  
Electronic Art (ISEA), Interstanding I, II, & III (Tallinn, Estonia),  
The P2P - New Media Culture in Europe conference, "Tulipomania DotCom  
- A Critique of the New Economy" for Next 5 Minutes, "net.congestion  
- International Festival of Streaming Media" (2000), "Debates &  
Credits - Media Art in the Public Domain" in Moscow, Amsterdam and  
Ekaterinburg (2002), the Amsterdam edition of World- Information.Org  
(2002), and the mini-festival "An Archaeology of Imaginary  
Media" (2004).


--------------------------------------------->Christiane Paul (US) is  
the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of  
American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service  
organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. She  
has written and lectured extensively on new media arts and her book  
Digital Art (part of the World of Art Series by Thames & Hudson, UK)  
was published in July 2003. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the  
show “Data Dynamics” (2001); the net art selection for the 2002  
Whitney Biennial; the online exhibition "CODeDOC" (2002) for artport,  
the Whitney Museum’s online portal to Internet art for which she is  
responsible; as well as "Follow Through" by Scott Paterson and  
Jennifer Crowe (2005).

---------------------------------------------->Dirk Vekemans (BE) is  
a digital poet and multimedia artist in Lueven. He invented and co-  
organised ‘Leuven Per Vers’ an event of poetry, protest and  
performance in 1996, and until 2004 has published literary works and  
multimedia experiments in Dutch through ‘Nederlandse Literatuur @  
ViltNet’ a ‘small-scale marginal distribution of cultural goods’ at  
http://www.vilt.net In September 2004 Dirk initiated the ‘Neue  
Kathedrale des erotischen Elends’ (NkdeE) registered as a linked art-  
object in Rhizome’s Art Database. The NkdeE was also part of the  
‘Mostra Internacional de Poesia Visual e Eletronica’, category  
Electronic Poetry, Sao Paulo, November. The three part work ‘MU’ was  
admitted to Regina Pinto’s ‘Museum of the Essential and Beyond’  
http://arteonline.arq.br/

------------------------------------------->Christina McPhee (US) is  
a multimedia artist working with landscapes of scientific  
visualization and cinematic image through a performance based use of  
video, installation, digital photography, data base net art and  
drawing. Based in California, she is investigating the seismic  
landscape, and the aftermath of debris flow, in the wake of global  
warming. Upcoming exhibitions in 2006 will include a solo  
installation, "La Conchita mon amour,' at Sara Tecchia New York in  
October  and, at Cartes Centre for Art and Technology, Espoo,  
Finland,a video retrospective from May to September.  http:// 
christinamcphee.net