Fwd: [-empyre-] empyre: wired sustainability continued

[Sharon Lin Tay]

Hello All:

This is a quick post to thank Renate for her invitation to join
Empyre and to say hello to everyone else.  

I have been lurking this past week and have very much enjoyed
the stimulating discussions.  Having been at FLEFF this year and
witness to the extraordinary range of events and performances, I
have been struck by how the festival is characterised by this
notion of sustainability and community.

Dale Hudson and I were invited to curate the online media art
exhibition that is part of FLEFF-- thank you, Patty Zimmermann
and Tom Shevory for this wonderful opportunity.

Ubuntu.Kuqala solicited online new media works that explore the
notions of sustainability and interconnectedness in different
ways.  We received some amazing submissions.  

The exhibition can be accessed here:
http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/exhibitons/

This week's discussion on open source and community intrigues
me, and applies very much to some of ubuntu.kuqala's selections.
 Discussing the selected works at FLEFF, Dale and I were
particularly intrigued by the piece "Soweto Uprising"
(http://sowetouprisings.com/site/), in particular, how Google
Maps enable the writing of historical events and the negotiation
of meanings.  That an Internet application facilitates the
writing of history as a community project pretty much defines
for me the idea of open source.

It would be very nice to hear your thoughts.

Sharon






--- Renate Ferro <rtf9 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:14:24 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Renate Ferro" <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
> To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> CC: 
> Subject: [-empyre-] empyre: wired sustainability continued
> 
> 
> 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>
> 
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