[-empyre-] Introducing Tim and Renate

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

dear -empyreans-

As December begins please welcome two new moderators for the -empyre-  
list:  Renate Ferro and Tim Murray (US)



Tim and Renate

Renate Ferro has an MFA in New Media from Cornell University.  In  
addition to serving as Art Editor of the theory journal, Diacritics,   
she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Cornell where she  
teaches  studio courses on electronic imaging, mixed media  and  
theory.  Her  video installation on Jean-Francois Lyotard was  
featured in November at the University of Richmond, and  she is   
completing an interactive video installation based on memory,  
familiar objects, and family movies, which will be installed in  
Beijing in the spring.  Her projects range from retooled Super 8  
footage of  Lyotard, which she shot in the early 80s, to conceptual  
audio archiving with artists and theoreticians.  She recently pursued  
her interests in toggling between new media and analogue art forms  
during a residency at the Experimental Television Center in Owego  
(Renate opened an experimental printmaking studio in Ithaca in the  
early 1980s).    She's now planning a large conference on feminism  
and art,  then and
now, which is scheduled for February at Cornell.

Tim Murray is Founding Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New  
Media Art (http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu) as well as Professor  
of Comparative Literature and English at Cornell where he teaches  
courses in new media, film, and philosophy.  Tim has published and  
curated widely on new media art.  He co-curates CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA  
with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker  
(http:ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu), curated the touring exhibition,  
Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom (http:contactzones.cit.cornell.edu),  
and has served as guest curator and
selector for Meta.org and low-fi.org.  He edited special issues on  
new media and cinema for Wide Angle and Sites, and  just finished a  
new book, Digital Baroque: Temporal Folds, New Media Art, and the  
History of Cinema (Minnesota), and is writing a sequal on "Immaterial  
Archives: Curatoria Instabilities in the Network of New Media Art."    
Tim is working on a
project to archive -empyre- off-line in the Goldsen Archive.


 Sergio, Marcus, Jim, Tracey and I are very glad to have Tim and  
Renate join us and hope that we can continue to deepen our commitment  
to incisive discourse on -empyre- through our month by month program  
structure throughout the coming year.  Please help us all out: if  
you've got suggestions about topics and themes, please email Jim  
Andrews, our list moderator/manager, at jim@vispo.com and he'll share  
your note with our team.  Also if you are interested in joining - 
empyre- as a moderator, please contact Jim as well.



-cm