[-empyre-] Fwd: Re: Introducing Week 3: Miyawaki Atsuko

[rtf9 at cornell.edu]

Tim has been on the road for over a week now and as I attempt to keep 
up with all fronts here, our discussion this month has me rethinking 
about my own work in new media installation.  As artists while our 
work is valorized by the gallery and museum system (that we also 
nurture), this  co-dependent  system becomes more obsolete and 
particularly problematic for me.

Many thanks to Claudia Pederson for  prompting us to remember once 
again the importance of politics and especially feminism  and thanks 
to Nick  Knouf's  for among other things his discussion on  the 
affects of the trace and  his interests in hacktavism.  Both guests 
have generously helped all of us to expand our investigations 
further, to make more connections between the body and its 
interventions via performance/choreography, sound/narrative, art, 
technology, and new media.  These connections seem to become further 
complicated by the reverberation between the the body's activity and 
how that  gets translated or documented or perhaps archived (or does 
not).  What affects do these translations have on the originary 
movement and the idea?

To continue our discussion, I would like to introduce Miyawaki Atsuko 
(UK/Japan) for Week #3  on Participatory Art:  New Media and the 
Digital Trace.   Atsuko's recently moved from Japan to London and 
will discuss her projects and thoughts throughout the week.  I have 
attached her biography below.

I also wanted to remind empyre lurkers that we will also be posting 
other guest's posts throughout the next two weeks that will introduce 
new threads into the daily discussion.
Best to all of you,
Renate Ferro


Miyawaki  Atsuko (UK/Japan) is an international curator/event 
organizer from Tokyo.
  After completing MAs in East Asian Studies at Cornell University and in
  Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University,
  she has been creating artistic platforms for artists and performers.
  She has organized and curated 22 events to date including the monthly
  artist talk-events "Pecha Kucha Night Tokyo" and "Tide Night at Tokyo
  National Stadium". She is currently living in London energetically
  exploring creative possibilities.







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

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