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Em s=E1bado, 29 de dezembro de 2012, Timothy Conway Murray escreveu:

> Dear Friends,
>
> On behalf of -empyre-, we want to express our deepest sympathy to the
> close friends and family of Beatriz da Costa, who passed away on Thursday
> night after a long and courageous battle against cancer.  Beatriz was a
> co-founder with Jaime Schulte and Brooke Singer of Preemptive Media, a
> former collaborator of Critical Art Ensemble, and Associate Professor of
> Art at the University of California, Irvine, where she specialized in the
> intersections of art, science, engineering, and politics.  As so many of
> you know, Beatriz was an innovator in the use of wetware in her artistic
> interventions and more recently had been experimenting with the potential
> of interspecies co-production in promoting the responsible use of natural
> resources and environmental sustainability.  She also was a leader in our
> broad field of adapting emergent technologies to address the politics and
> configurations of social justice.
>
> Beatriz was always one of the first to respond to our e-mails about
> monthly -empyre- themes, and was a brilliant interlocutor on -empyre-.   =
At
> exhibitions, conferences, and when visiting Cornell, we always marveled a=
t
> her warm generosity with students and members of the public who requested
> further discussion about her projects.  Yes, she was the epitomy of an
> artist experimenting with the flexibilities of soft-skinned spaces.
>
> In the next few months, we will be organizing a special monthly discussio=
n
> in her memory on wetware and interspecies co-production.  Please feel fre=
e
> to contact us if you would be interested in participating as a featured
> guest.
>
> All our best,
>
> Tim and Renate
>
> Tim Murray and Renate Ferro
> Co-Managers, -empyre- soft-skinned space
>
> Director, Society for the Humanities
> Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
> Professor of Comparative Literature and English
> A. D. White House
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York. 14853
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Hallo Tim and empyreans,<div><br></div><div>What a loss. Too young, such a =
brilliant person. I&#39;ve seen Beatriz speaking in the Subtle technologies=
 festival in 2003, when they presented some aspects of the &#39;Swipe&#39; =
project, and since then, I used her articles and works in classroom from ti=
me to time.=A0</div>
<div><br></div><div>I hope she has passed without suffering, and that she m=
ay be well wherever she may be now. Certainly she made a difference and lef=
t a contribuition in her short passage in this world.</div><div><br></div>
<div><span style>Certainly we can take her as inspiration for melting of cr=
eation and thinking in the coming year and further.</span><br dir=3D"ltr"><=
/div><div><br></div><div>All the best for you all at<span></span>=A0-empyre=
-, a great 2013 full of joy and creation.=A0</div>
<div><br></div><div>From Brazil,</div><div><br></div><div>s</div><div><br>E=
m s=E1bado, 29 de dezembro de 2012, Timothy Conway Murray escreveu:<br><blo=
ckquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #c=
cc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear Friends,<br>
<br>
On behalf of -empyre-, we want to express our deepest sympathy to the close=
 friends and family of Beatriz da Costa, who passed away on Thursday night =
after a long and courageous battle against cancer. =A0Beatriz was a co-foun=
der with Jaime Schulte and Brooke Singer of Preemptive Media, a former coll=
aborator of Critical Art Ensemble, and Associate Professor of Art at the Un=
iversity of California, Irvine, where she specialized in the intersections =
of art, science, engineering, and politics. =A0As so many of you know, Beat=
riz was an innovator in the use of wetware in her artistic interventions an=
d more recently had been experimenting with the potential of interspecies c=
o-production in promoting the responsible use of natural resources and envi=
ronmental sustainability. =A0She also was a leader in our broad field of ad=
apting emergent technologies to address the politics and configurations of =
social justice.<br>

<br>
Beatriz was always one of the first to respond to our e-mails about monthly=
 -empyre- themes, and was a brilliant interlocutor on -empyre-. =A0 At exhi=
bitions, conferences, and when visiting Cornell, we always marveled at her =
warm generosity with students and members of the public who requested furth=
er discussion about her projects. =A0Yes, she was the epitomy of an artist =
experimenting with the flexibilities of soft-skinned spaces.<br>

In the next few months, we will be organizing a special monthly discussion =
in her memory on wetware and interspecies co-production. =A0Please feel fre=
e to contact us if you would be interested in participating as a featured g=
uest.

All our best, 
 
Tim and Renate 
 
Tim Murray and Renate Ferro 
Co-Managers, -empyre- soft-skinned space 
 
Director, Society for the Humanities 
Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art 
Professor of Comparative Literature and English 
A. D. White House 
Cornell University 
Ithaca, New York. 14853 
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ists.cofa.unsw.edu.au&#39;)">empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au</a> 
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e.net/empyre</a> 
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