[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology: week 2 discussants

[Simon Biggs]

We would like to thank both Eugenio Tisselli and Helen Varley Jamieson who
have so brilliantly kicked off this month's discussion on empyre, inquiring
into creativity as a social ontology. The debate has been subtle and intense
and revealed a number of fascinating insights around the theme. I hope that
Eugenio and Helen might continue to contribute further to this discussion as
it evolves.

We would now like to welcome two further colleagues for Week 2 of empyre's
dicussion. James Leach (UK) and Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (USA/UK/Italy). We
have asked them to discuss how creativity can enable people and communities
through the examples of their research. James's work has focused on how
creative and social practices involve not only processes of making and
exchange but also the forging of identities, both collective and individual.
Kriss's research and writing has looked at how artists' work is publicly
encountered and the affects this has on the work, the artist and the
audience. Her most recent publication is "Shadowed by Images: Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer and the Art of Surveillance".

James Leach (UK):
James Leach is a Social Anthropologist. His areas of interest centre on
creativity, innovation, intellectual property and on knowledge exchange
across cultures, disciplines and contexts. Building on long term fieldwork
in Papua New Guinea, recent work has drawn understandings and relationships
from that region into research on free software, interdisciplinary
collaborations, the design of technological objects and choreography. James
is currently Professor and Head of Anthropology at the University of
Aberdeen.

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (USA/UK/Italy):
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is an Associate Professor at the University of
Edinburgh in Film Studies.  She is the author of The Unmaking of Fascist
Aesthetics, and has published articles on digital and performance art,
modernism, feminism, nationalism, representations of violence and
post-socialist cinema. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled
Mythopoetic Cinema at The Margins of Europe.

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



Simon Biggs
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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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