[-empyre-] Welcome Jordan Crandall and Navjotika Kumar

[rtf9 at cornell.edu]

Many thanks to Ricardo Dominguez and Frederic Neyrat for being our 
guest moderators this week on empyre.  We are hoping that they will 
continue to participate in our discussion this week moderated by 
Jordan Crandall and Navjotika Kumar (we call her Jotika!)  We just 
saw Jordan two weeks ago in San Francisco at the Virilio conference 
and enjoyed spending time with Jotika in Ithaca for our Earth Art 
conference about three weeks ago.

Both Jordan and Jotika have been our  guests here in Ithaca at the 
Thomas Bed and Breakfast where they enjoyed the networks of "country 
life" and nature!  We are looking forward to their own ideas about 
Networked Catastrophe Artist's Responses and are hoping that all of 
you will participate.

Jordan Crandall (http://jordancrandall.com) is a media artist and theorist
based in Los Angeles.  He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts
Department at University of California, San Diego. He is currently at work
on a multi-platform media work entitled SHOWING, which looks at cultures of
self-exposure and display. It includes a video installation entitled HEAT,
which is about the staging of arousal -- as it occurs dynamically within the
realms of extreme intimacy, where techniques of control (biometrics) combine
with techniques of the self (affective self-staging).  He is also at work on
a book manuscript on "Anticipatory Assemblages" -- a reformulation of
assemblage theory that focuses on its immersive erotics. His most recent
video installation is HOMEFRONT, a 3-channel work that combines live-action
video, surveillance footage, and military tracking software, and which
explores the effects of the new security culture on subjectivity and
identity.

Navjotika Kumar (US) is an art critic and historian of contemporary 
art.  Emphasizing conceptual art, with interests in land and 
ecological interventions, she written on the art of catastrophe in 
Richard Misrach and others. She teaches contemporary art at Kent 
State University in Ohio.

Our best to all of you!  Renate and Tim


-- 
Renate Ferro
URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853

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