[-empyre-] Empyre-introducing Sarah Drury"s Biography

[Renate Ferro]

I apologize to Sarah!  For some reason her biography was dropped from the
introduction yesterday.  Here it is below. Renate

Biography

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, 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 the NYU Art Department;
and a BA from Barnard College/Columbia University.  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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> We seem to be having server problems so there has been a short
> interruption but we are working on it.  Here is the post that was sent
> very early today.  We will try again......
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> Many thanks to  Johannes Birringer (Germany/UK) and  Laura Cull (UK) for
> leading week three of Critical Motion Practice and hoping that discussions
> about soft materials and blending boundaries will continue this week.   We
> warmly welcome Sarah Drury as our guest moderator for week four.  Sarah's
> work combines the components of voice, movement, performance and more
> recently performative interventions in disability studies. Sarah's
> biography is below.
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> We are also thrilled that our other guests from former weeks  have
> continued to join in; Ashley Ferro-Murray (US),  Erin Manning (Canada),
> Stamatia Portanova (Italy/UK), Nora Zuniga Shaw (US), and Stelarc
> (Australia/UK).
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> We have heard from a number of new subscribers this month and are hoping
> that those of you who are following the discussion will feel free to make
> a post this week. For those of you interested in taking a look at the
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> Tim and I have just finished our semester and yesterday saw many of our
> students graduate on an amazingly brilliant sunny day at Cornell.  We were
> struck at how successfully a huge institution could choreograph  thousands
> of people for three days of celebration and merriment.  And now we can
> settle into doing some choreographing ourselves for a productive summer.
> Wishing all of you a restful and productive summer on this side of the
> hemisphere and a good start to Winter Semester on the other side.
>
> Renate and Tim
> Renate Ferro
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> Department of Art
> Cornell University, Tjaden Hall
> Ithaca, NY  14853
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> Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
> Website:  http://www.renateferro.net
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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


Co-moderator of _empyre soft skinned space
http://www.subtle.net/empyre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre

Art Editor, diacritics
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/