[-empyre-] This week's guests on empyre

[Simon Biggs]

This July edition of empyre "Creativity as a social ontology" is moderated
by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus), edinburgh college of art.

We would like to welcome two colleagues for Week 1, Eugenio Tisselli
(Mexico/Spain) and Helen Varley Jamieson (NZ/UK). We have asked them to
discuss how creativity can enable people and communities through the
examples of their projects, which have focused on facilitating community
creativity and exchange in various contexts from online distributed
collaborative performance to refugees constructing online multimedia
narratives employing network technologies.

Eugenio Tisselli (Mexico/Spain) was born in Mexico City in 1972 and is a
writer and programmer. Areas of interest include artistic software, social
technologies and digital narratives. His work (installation, performance,
software and text) has been featured in many publications, festivals and
exhibitions around the world. He collaborates regularly with artist Antoni
Abad at http://megafone.net. He was an associate researcher at Sony Computer
Science Lab in Paris and is currently co-director of the Master in Digital
Arts at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His work can be found at
http://www.motorhueso.net

Helen Varley Jamieson (NZ/UK)  is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital
artist currently based in Europe. She holds a Master of Arts (research) in
cyberformance - live performance on the internet ­ a form of networked
performance which she has developed and presented internationally for over a
decade. Helen is a founding member of the globally-dispersed cyberformance
troupe Avatar Body Collision; project manager of UpStage, an open source
web-based cyberformance platform; has co-curated online festivals involving
artists and audiences around the world; and is the "web queen" of the
Magdalena Project, an international network of women in theatre. Her work
can be found at http://www.creative-catalyst.com


Simon Biggs
s.biggs at eca.ac.uk  simon at littlepig.org.uk
Skype: simonbiggsuk
http://www.littlepig.org.uk/

Research Professor  edinburgh college of art
http://www.eca.ac.uk/
Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
http://www.elmcip.net/
Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts



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