[-empyre-] empyre: wired sustainability continued

[Renate Ferro]

Hello fellow empyre inhabitants!
Many thanks to Patty Zimmerman, Tom Shevory and Stephanie Rothenberg for
participating in this past weeks discussion.  We are very grateful to the
three of them for agreeing to do this the week after the flurry of FLEFF
activities.  We invite them to continue to participate in the remaining
weeks of discussion on Wired Sustainability with their experience and
points of view in joining this weeks guests.

A very warm welcome to Dale Hudson, Sharon Lin Tay, and Ulises Mejias  for
being this week's guests  for our -empyre-discussion on "Wired
Sustainability".  Dale, Sharon and Ulises are also FLEFF participants.  We
are looking forward to their discussions about the festival and their own
curatorial/creative work.

Below are biographies so that you can get to know them a little better. 
Looking forward to continuing this important dialog online!  Renate and
Tim

Dale Hudson is a film, video, and new media theorist and curator. His
research examines cinema and new media in relation to racialization,
nationalism, immigration, and globalization, particularly within the
contexts of the United States, France, and India. He earned his Ph.D. from
the University of Massachusetts in 2004. He has published articles in
Refractory (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Screen (University of
Glasgow, Scotland), as well as reviews of new media scholarship and
digital archives in Afterimage. In spring 2006, he served on the faculty
steering committee for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
(FLEFF). With Lisa Patti, he co-curated a preview event for FLEFF 2006 in
collaboration with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Northeast
Historic Film, and the Human Studies Film Archives at the Smithsonian
Institution. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Amherst
College.

Sharon Lin Tay is a film, video, and new media theorist and curator. She
is co-curator with Dale Hudson of the 2008 FLEFF online digital art
exhibition, ubuntu.kuqala. She is a lecturer in film studies at Middlesex
University in London, where she teaches film theory, world cinema, and
digital culture. Born in Singapore, she was educated in Singapore, New
Zealand, and England, and received her Ph.D. in film studies from the
University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. Her work is sustained by a
commitment to feminist politics and revolves around film theory, the
specificities of filmic materiality, and filmmaking practices. She has
published journal articles and book chapters on feminist film theory,
Deleuze, world cinema, and women filmmakers, and writes for various film
and media publications. She is currently working on projects about digital
cinemas and the contemporary political documentary.

Ulises Mejias* is an educator and techno-cultural theorist whose research
interests include networked sociality, the philosophy of technology, and
learning design. His work focuses mainly on the use of the network as a
model for organizing and mediating social realities. He is assistant
professor of new media at SUNY Oswego. He holds an Ed.D. from Columbia
University in communication, computing, and technology in education, and
an M.S. and B.F.A. from Ithaca College. He was director of Learning
Systems Design at eCornell, a Cornell University subsidiary. He has
published in various journals including First Monday, Innovate, Knowledge
Tree, and Critical Issues in Media Communications and has been nominated
two years consecutively for an EduBlog award. He blogs at
ideant.typepad.com.




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