[-empyre-] April 2007 on -empyre- soft-skinned space: TechnoPanic: Terrors and Technologies

[Timothy Murray <tcm1@cornell.edu>, renate ferro <rtf9@cornell.edu>]

April 2007  on -empyre- soft-skinned space: TechnoPanic: Terrors and 
Technologies

http://www.subtle.net/empyre

with Horit Herman-Peled (IS), Brooke Singer (US), Paul Vanouse (US), 
and Sean Cubit (AU)

moderated by Renate Ferro (US) and Tim Murray (US)

From surveillance and mobile technologies to fears and public panic, 
the ambivalent attraction to technologies of terror shifts registers 
between post-cold war and post 9-11 sensibilities, whether
from international or cross-generational zones of engagement.  We 
will discuss how panic, paranoia, critical resistance to, and 
appropriation of technologies of terror are mediated by the threat
and fear of violence in the interlinked networks of mobile media, 
domestic space, and the public sphere.


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Guest biographies:

Horit Herman-Peled (IS) is a media artist, theorist, and feminist 
activist in Tel
Aviv, who teaches art and digital culture at the Art Institute, 
Oranim College, Israel. http://www.horit.com/

Brook Singer (US) is a Brooklyn-based digital media artist and arts 
organizer. A member of Preemptive Media, her most recent 
collaborations, both as an artist and curator, utilize wireless 
(Wi-Fi, mobile phone cameras, RFID) as tools for initiating 
discussion and positive system failures.  She is Assistant Professor 
of New
Media at SUNY Purchase. http://www.bsing.net/blog/

Paul Vanouse (US) makes data collection devices that include polling 
and categorization (for interactive cinema), genetic experiments that
undermine scientific constructions of identity, and temporary 
organizations that performatively critique institutionalization and 
corporatization.  He teaches in the Art Dept. at the University of
Buffalo (SUNY). http://visualstudies.buffalo.edu/people/vanouse/

Sean Cubitt (AU) teaches media and communications at the University 
of Melbourne.  Among his numerous books on cinema and new media are 
EcoMedia, The Cinema Effect, and Digital Aesthetics. Sean has curated 
numerous exhibitions and is Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Book 
Series for MIT Press. 
http://www.mediacomm.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/staff/sean/seanwriting/index.html


moderators:

Renate Ferro (US) conceptual artist,  visiting Assistant Professor of 
Art,  Cornell University http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/rtf9/ 
and Timothy Murray (US), Curator, the Rose Golden Archive of New 
Media Art (http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu) and Acting Director of 
the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

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--
Timothy Murray
Acting Director of The Society for the Humanities
Professsor of Comparative Literature and English
Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video Studies
Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library
A. D. White House
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853