[-empyre-] Welcoming Simon Biggs and CREATIVITY AS A SOCIAL ONTOLOGY

[Renate Ferro]

Dear empyre subscribers,

Tim and I are very honored to introduce our July moderator at this time,
Simon Biggs.  Simon has not only agreed to be our guest moderator this month
but will join empyre's long-term facilitating team as we prepare to
celebrate empyre's tenth anniversary.  We welcome Simon as we shepherd the
list-serve through the next decade of its existence.  Just a few months ago,
we were thrilled to spend some time with Simon at Cornell University as a
guest of Cornell's Society for the Humanities at a conference on Networks
and Mobilities.  Simon not only gave a stunning talk and presentation but
was the life of the party and ended up being a very savvy wine consultant!
Needless to say we are looking forward to Simon's intervention into this
month's discussion and as well as to working with him as part of the empyre
team. 

Simon Biggs is a visual artist born in Australia, 1957. He moved to the UK
in 1986. Since 1978 Biggs has been working with digital and interactive
systems in installation, networked and other media. Venues presenting his
work include Tate Modern, Whitechapel, Institute of Contemporary Arts
(London), Ikon (Birmingham), Centre de Georges Pompidou, Academy de Kunste
and Kulturforum (Berlin), Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Macau Arts Museum,
Cameraworks (San Francisco), Walker Art Center, Paco des Artes (Sao Paulo),
Museo OI (Rio De Janeiro), McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch),
Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide) and the Art Gallery of New South
Wales. Publications include Autopoeisis (with James Leach, Artwords, 2004),
Halo (Film and Video Umbrella, 1998), Magnet (McDougall Art Gallery, 1997)
and CD-ROM's Book of Shadows and Great Wall of China (Ellipsis, 1996 and
1999). He is Professor at Edinburgh College of Art. His URL is
http://www.littlepig.org.uk

Simon will host the a discussion entitled CREATIVITY AS A SOCIAL ONTOLOGY. I
have included a short description below but Simon will be sending you all a
lengthier description as well as introducing this months guests.

CREATIVITY AS A SOCIAL ONTOLOGY Creativity is often perceived as the product
of individual, or groups of creative practitioners. However, it might be
considered an emergent phenomenon of communities, driving change and
facilitating individual or ensemble creativity. Expanded concepts of agency
allow us to question who, or what, can be an active participant in social
and creative interactions, providing diverse models for authorship.
Creativity might be regarded as a form of social interaction, a reflexive
mediation, rather than an outcome.

Many thanks to you Simon and we look forward to this month's conversation.

Renate Ferro and Tim Murray

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

Co-moderator of _empyre soft skinned space
http://www.subtle.net/empyre
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Art Editor, diacritics
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/





On 7/3/10 11:20 PM, "Renate Ferro" <rtf9 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Dear empyre, 
> 
> Many thanks to Michael Dieter as well as Morgan Currie and John Haltiwanger
> and all of their guests for hosting this past month's discussion "Publishing
> in Convergence" on empyre. It was an engaging discussion and one that seems
> to be at the pinnacle of humanities' discussions these days.  To have so
> many participants involved in the discussion who are in the middle of the
> logistics of electronic publishing was especially valuable for all of us.
> 
> Our next discussion will be moderated by Simon Biggs (UK) so stay tuned. I
> will be introducing Simon tomorrow.
> 
> Renate 
> 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
> 
> 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/
> 
> 
> 
>    
> 
> 
> On 7/2/10 10:02 PM, "Michael Dieter" <mdieter at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Morgan Currie and John Haltiwanger
> 
> 
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