[-empyre-] Week 1: Rethinking Curatorial Options, Globally

[Renate Ferro]

Tim and I would like to introduce Week 1 guests for our discussion on
"Rethinking Curatorial Options, Globally.  Our friends from Canada,
Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher will lead our discussion. Jim and
Jennifer have been visitors at both Cornell University's Society for
the Humanities where Tim is the Director.  Additionally  they have
been visiting critics in my department, the Department of Art.  We are
always happy to see them in person (Toronto is only five hours away
from Ithaca) but we are especially happy that they will share their
work on display cult as well as their new journal, the Journal of
Curatorial Studies.  Welcome Jennifer and Jim to -empyre soft-skinned
space. Their full biographies are below. We are delighted you will be
joining us and look forward to hearing more about your own work as
well as your curatorial practices.

Jen an Jim will be posting soon.
Thanks. Renate and Tim
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Jim Drobnick (CA)
Jim Drobnick is a curator and Associate Professor of Contemporary Art
and Theory at OCAD University, Toronto. He has published on the visual
arts, performance, the senses and post-media practices in recent
anthologies such as Art, History and the Senses (2010) and Senses and
the City (2011), and the journals Angelaki, High Performance,
Parachute, Performance Research, and The Senses & Society, where he is
now reviews editor. His books include the anthologies Aural Cultures
(2004) and The Smell Culture Reader (2006).

Drobnick and Fisher recently launched the Journal of Curatorial
Studies, for which they are editors
(www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=205/).
They are the founding members of DisplayCult, a collaborative
framework for interdisciplinary studies in the visual arts. Its main
objective is to creatively merge disciplines, media and communities in
order to propose generative prototypes for display and aesthetic
engagement. Their exhibitions include NIGHTSENSE (2009), MetroSonics
(2009), Odor Limits (2008), Listening Awry (2007), Do Me! (2006),
Aural Cultures (2005), Linda Montano (2003), reminiSCENT (2003),
Museopathy (2001), Vital Signs (2000) and CounterPoses (1998), among
others. Their collaborative publications include the catalogues
CounterPoses (2002) and Museopathy (2002), as well as essays in
Trespassers & Captives (2000), Image and Inscription (2005), and
Dispersions: Aernout Mik (2005). www.displaycult.com



Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420
Ithaca, NY  14853
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
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