[-empyre-] Wired sustainability. Welcome Tom Shevory, Patty Zimmerman and Stephanie Rothenberg

[Renate Ferro]

We  want to thank Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray for introducing us to
their work at Eyebeam and for being hosts for last weeks discussion.   I'm
sure we will be hearing from them online as month progresses.  If any of
you are in New York City we are hoping you will visit Eyebeam in Chelsea
to see Britta and Rebecca's project as well as the entire exhibit
FEEDBACK.  Later this month Amanda McDonald Crowley from Eyebeam will be
our guest.

A very warm welcome to Tom Shevory, Patty Zimmerman, and Stephanie
Rothenberg  for being this week's guests  for our -empyre-discussion on 
"Wired Sustainability".   Tim and I enjoyed meeting Patty, Tom and
Stephanie at a party on Saturday night celebrating  a week of events
scheduled for the Finger Lakes Film Festival.  We are looking forward to
their discussions about the festival and their own creative work.

Below are biographies for Tom, Patty and Stephanie so that you can get to
know them a little better.  Looking forward to talking to all of you
online!  Renate and Tim

Thomas Shevory is co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film
Festival (http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff) at Ithaca College with Patricia
Zimmermann. Shevory is also professor and chair of politics at Ithaca
College. He is the author of five books, including Body/Politics: Studies
in Production, Reproduction, and Reconstruction; Notorious HIV: The Media
Spectacle of Nushawn Williams; and Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle
against the WTI Incinerator. He has published
numerous scholarly articles  on law, public policy, popular music and
popular culture, with a focus on health and the environment.

Patricia R. Zimmermann is co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental
Film Festival (http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff) at Ithaca College with Tom
Shevory. She is also professor of cinema, photography and media arts in
the Roy H. Park School of Communications. She is the author of Reel
Families: A Social History of
Amateur Film and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies, as
well as coeditor of The Flaherty: Forty Years in the Cause of Independent
Cinema and Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories.
She has published numerous scholarly  articles  and journalism on cinema,
digital media, and film/video history and theory, with a focus on
documentary, amateur film, and new media interfaces.

Stephanie Rothenberg (Women Direct new media artist in residence for
Fingerlakes Film Festival) is a new media artist working at the
intersection of art and technology. Her
interdisciplinary practice merges performance, installation, and networked
media to create solicitous interactions that question the boundaries and
social constructs of manufactured desires. She has lectured and exhibited
in the United States and internationally at venues such as the 2008
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah; Hallwalls Media Art Center,
Buffalo, New York; 2007 ConFlux Festival, New York City; Interaccess Media
Arts Centre, Toronto; 2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival; Radiator
Festival New Technology Art, Nottingham, England; 2004 Inter-Society for
the Electronic Arts, Helsinki; Knitting Factory, New York City; and the
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing. Her recent awards include the 2007
Eyebeam Atelier artist in residence in New York City, SUNY Buffalo 2020
Scholars Award, and a free103point9 artist in residence. She is currently
assistant professor of visual studies at SUNY Buffalo, where she teaches
courses in the communication design and emerging practices concentrations.





Renate Ferro
Cornell University
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fine Arts
Tjaden Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853
rtf9 at cornell.edu
Home Page:  <http://www.renateferro.net>