[-empyre-] Thanks to Menotti/Welcoming Anna Munster on _empyre

[Renate Ferro]

Dear _empyre subscribers,

We join in thanking Gabriel Menotti for guest moderating this past month's
discussion of "Denied Distances." We appreciate his generous offer to
moderate this past month's discussion and enjoyed the varied posts that
related.
We will be turning  the month October over to Anna Munster who will be
moderating a conversation, "Networked_Art." Based on a collaborative
Turbulence project, Anna will be
introducing her roster of guests who will join our over 1250 subscribers to
discuss the convergence between networked aesthetics and texts.  While Anna
will be introducing the guests for the month and posting the first
discussion post, I will take this opportunity to introduce Anna's biography.
We thank her for taking over from Gabriel. Anna is from Australia where it
is already October 1st so we will say good=bye to Gabriel for now and
welcome Anna to _empyre soft-skinned space.

Biography
Anna Munster is a writer, artist and educator in the area of new media
arts and theory. In 2006 she published the book Materializing New Media:
Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Dartmouth College Press) and writes
for the journals CTheory, Fibreculture, Culture Machine among others on
networked culture and art, biomedia and bioart and contemporary art and
politics. She helped to found the journal Fibreculture and is actively
involved in online list cultures and their on and offline projects and
events. She works collaboratively with Michele Barker in the area of
immersive and multi-channel audio-visual installation, exploring the
relations between visuality, perception and neuroscience. Munster works as
an associate professor at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South
Wales, Sydney Australia. Her current research investigates dynamic media,
particularly the relations between the technical aspects of networks and
network visualisations on the one hand, and emergent forms of cultural and
aesthetic experience on the other.
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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