[-empyre-] Introducing Brooke Singer

[renate ferro <rtf9@cornell.edu>, timothy murray <tcm1@cornell.edu>]

We're very pleased to be able to follow up on Horit's interventions
(we hope we'll be able to hear more from her this month) with a week
focused on the projects and thoughts of Brooke Singer.

Brooke Singer is tremendously invigorating and warm digital media
artist who lives in New York City. She works across media to provide
entry into important social issues that are often characterized as
specialized or opaque to a general public. She likes to use emerging
technologies not only because they are fun but also because they are
contingent and malleable.

Brooke has exhibited and lectured in the U.S. and internationally, including at
the Andy Warhol Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Neuberger
Museum of Art; The Banff Centre for the Arts; Biennale de Montréal; Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Diverseworks, Houston; Exit Art, New York and
Barcelona's Sonar 2006. She has received numerous other commissions
including from the Franklin Furnace, Turbulence.org/New Radio and
Performing Arts and the Experimental Television Center.

She is Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State
University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist
group Preemptive Media. With her collective Preemptive Media, Brooke was
awarded the first Social Sculpture Commission by Eyebeam Art and Technology
Center and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2005. Today she
continues her work with Preemptive Media while producing a
documentary about communities affected by toxic contamination and in
search of responsive, environmental leadership.

Brooke's work with Preemptive Media has a very strong following in
New York State.  We welcome her to the wider world of -empyre-.

Renate and Tim


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