[-empyre-] Introducing Sarah Drury and Hana Iverson

[Renate Ferro]

Welcome to Sarah Drury and Hana Iverson  who have been discussing the
socially inscribed networked body in relation to their own work.  We
invite them to consider this month's theme:  "Participatory Art:  New
Media and the Archival Trace."  This notion of Participatory Art has
resonances from the writings of Nicholas Bourriaud and Claire Bishop. 
While Hana and Sarah discuss  their own ideas about the topic we will be 
interspersing other posts from other artists, curators, and writers who
also were thinking about these issues in relationship to their own work.

We also want to encourage all of our empyre subscribers (close to 1250) 
who have been lurking during the past month to PARTICIPATE.

So welcome Hana and Sarah!

Featured Guests:
Week 1:  Hana Iverson (US) and Sarah Drury (US)

Hana Iverson’s work spans photography, video, installation, and
interactive media. Her current work focuses on location-based
installations
that integrates mobile interfaces. Iverson currently teaches at Rutgers,
The State
University of New Jersey and is the founder and director of the
Neighborhood
Narratives Project, an internationally networked, community-based learning
environment where students investigate the complex means by which cell
phones, GPS, mobile recording devices, interactive public installation and
social
network games affect their knowledge of and relation to lived space
http://www.neighborhoodnarratives.net. She is the former Director of the
New
Media Interdisciplinary Concentration at Temple University.

Sarah Drury is a media artist working with video, interactive installation
and performative media. Her work has been presented at international
venues,
including: BAM¹s Next Wave Festival, National Theater of Belgrade, and Boston
CyberArts Festival, Brooklyn Museum, the Kitchen, SIGGRAPH, ISEA,
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Sound Cultures Symposium, Performative Sites,
ACM Multimedia, Artists Space, Hallwalls, Worldwide Video Festival (Hague),
and on PBS.  Grants include fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts, and grants from the Leeway Foundation, and Franklin Furnace.

Drury¹s work with sensing technologies engages body, sound and image in
complex multisensory narratives, in diverse contexts such as installation,
opera and performance. Recent projects explore issues of embodiment,
collaborative creation and emergent narrative.

Sarah Drury is an associate professor of video and interactive media at the
Temple University Film & Media Arts Program. She holds masters degrees from
the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program and NYU/International Center
of Photography.  She has also been on the faculty of the New York
University
Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU Art & Media Program and the
International Center of Photography.


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Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Art
Cornell University, Tjaden Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853

Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
Website:  http://www.renateferro.net


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