[-empyre-] Welcoming Horit Herman-Peled to -empyre-

[Renate Ferro <rtf9@cornell.edu>, Timothy Murray <tcm1@cornell.edu>]

We're very happy to introduce our colleague and friend, Horit 
Herman-Peled, as the first guest commentator on this month's topic, 
TechnoPanic: Terrors and Technologies.

We have collaborated with Horit for many years on various curatorial 
projects and recently profited from her theoretical precision and 
artistic vision when she addressed a Cornell conference that Tim 
organized in September on "Thinking the Surface."  Her experience as 
an Israeli feminist activist and artist promises to bring a crucial 
perspective to our discussions over the month.  Her writing on 
"digital terror" contributes immeasurably to our understanding of 
this month's topic, http://web.macam.ac.il/~horit_a/terror.htm  We 
are confident that you will come to share our deep respect for her 
artistic and political interventions in the highly charged border 
zones shared by Palestine and Israel.

Horit is a new media interventionist, artist, and C. Phil. in media 
philosophy at the European Graduate School.  She teaches digital art, 
digital theory and digital culture at the Art Institute at Oranim 
College in Israel.  Her work deals with the paradoxes of the 
in-betweens of the political and the ethical.  Horit has exhibited 
and lectured internationally on art and digital media in the social, 
cultural, political, and economical context.  She was a member of the 
International Organizing Committee for ISEA98,  and she exhibited in 
Tim's exhibitions, "Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom" (199-2201) 
http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu and "Wired Ruins" which he 
co-curated with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker in CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA #3 
(2002).  Her work was represented in the Venice Biennale 2003, and 
The Utopia Station Lab in Martha Rosler's Trojan Horse.  Her article, 
"Rupture in the Surface: Ethics of the Abject" will be published in 
Performance Paradigm next month: http://www.performanceparadigm.net

Thanks so much for joining our discussion, Horit.
--
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
-empyre- moderators