[-empyre-] Week 3 on empyre: Paul Vanouse, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Claire Penacost, and Heidi Kumao

[Renate Ferro]

Just caught this. Sorry to Claire Pentecost for the misspelling her
name.  My apologies.  Renate



On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Renate Ferro <rtf9 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Thanks to Antoinette and Brooke for being our guest this week on empyre.
>
> Antoinette your last post on some of the historical precedents
> involving women and cellos was interesting.  I am also reminded of the
> various collaborations that cellist Charlotte Moorman accomplished
> with Nam June Paik. A quick image search of the two artists brought up
> a number of images.
> Thanks so much for the post.
>
> This week on empyre we welcome Paul Vanouse, Amanda McDonald Crowley,
> Claire Penacost, and Heidi Kumao. Their biographies are posted below
> and welcome them warmly to -empyre soft-skinned space. I am hoping
> that all of our guests from other weeks will feel free to post as
> their schedules permit and that any -empyre subscriber that is lurking
> in on our conversation who knew Beatriz or was inspired by her work to
> please post.  For anyone missing the discussion thus far, the entire
> conversation can be accessed in our archive at:
>
> http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2013-February/date.html
>
> Best to all of you. Renate Ferro
>
> Biographies
> Week 3
> Paul Vanouse is a Professor of Visual Studies at the University at
> Buffalo. and has worked in emerging technological media forms since
> 1990.  His biological experiments, electronic cinema, and interactive
> installations have exhibited in over 20 countries and across the US.
> His recent projects, “Latent Figure Protocol”, “Ocular Revision” and
> “Suspect Inversion Center” use molecular biology techniques to
> challenge “genome-hype” and to confront issues surrounding DNA
> fingerprinting.
>
> Paul and Beatriz began their friendship at Carnegie Mellon in the late
> Nineties, while Paul was a  Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry
> and Beatriz was finishing her degree. They taught together at the
> University at Buffalo, exhibited alongside one another in group
> exhibitions, and organized panels and workshops together, including
> Wetware Hackers workshop for ISEA 2006 in San Jose.  Paul and Beatriz
> have dialoged and collaborated for over fifteen years and she will be
> dearly missed.
>
> Amanda McDonald Crowley is a cultural worker, curator, and facilitator
> who creates media and contemporary art programs that encourage
> cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Recent
> curatorial efforts include Our Haus, the 10th Anniversary exhibition
> for the Austrian Cultural Forum, NY. In late 2012 she did a residency
> as a Bogliasco Fellow, working on curatorial research at the
> intersection between art, food, and technology. Amanda is also
> currently a Board member of the National Alliance for Media Art +
> Culture (NAMAC) in the USA. She has been Director of the Australian
> Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) where she made significant links
> with science and industry by developing a range of residencies for
> artists in settings such as science organizations, contemporary art
> spaces and virtual residencies online. She was Associate Director of
> the Adelaide Festival 2002 in Australia, and also co-chair of the
> working group that organized the exhibition and symposium ‘conVerge:
> where art and science meet’. Critical Art Ensemble were to present
> their collaboration with Beatriz at that Festival. Alas, the Festival
> wasn't able to support the performance. While Executive Producer at
> ISEA2004 (the International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2004) held
> in Tallinn,  Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in
> the Baltic sea, she finally met Beatriz who suggested that she
> consider professional options in the USA post ISEA. Amanda told
> Beatriz she would never move to the USA. 18 months later, when she
> became  Executive Director of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New
> York City, Beatriz commented "never is not a very long time in your
> language it seems". When Amanda first arrived at Eyebeam in late 2005,
> Beatriz, with Preemptive Media, were commissioned to develop Area's
> Immediate Reading. Beatriz was also a member of the last residency
> program cohort Amanda oversaw at Eyebeam in 2011, where Beatriz was
> researching and developing her final projects Dying for the Other and
> Anti-Cancer Survival Kit.
>
> Claire Penacost: Claire Pentecost’s work engages diverse
> strategies—collaboration, research, teaching, field work, writing,
> lecturing, drawing, installation and photography—in an ongoing
> interrogation of the institutional structures that order knowledge.
> Her work has long addressed the contested boundary between natural and
> artificial, focusing the last fourteen years on food, agriculture and
> bio-engineering. Pentecost was a presenting artist at dOCUMENTA(13) in
> Kassel, Germany, and is represented by Higher Pictures in New York.
> She is a Professor in the Department of Photography at the School of
> the Art Institute of Chicago and often collaborates with Compass in
> the Midwest Radical Cultural Corridor.
>
> Heidi Kumao:  Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and
> engineering, Heidi Kumao’s installations, experimental films, and
> machine art works generate artistic spectacle in order to explore the
> psychological underpinnings of everyday situations.  Each work
> restages simple behaviors (e.g. gardening, writing, standing upright,
> reading) within a larger cultural construct (such as a prison,
> family/home or traditional gender roles) through projection, kinetic
> elements or electronics. Through these performative tableaus and
> hybrid art forms, Kumao demonstrates how small gestures, even the most
> private and poetic, can become acts of defiance.
> She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in the USA,
> Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Canada including solo shows at the Museu
> da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo), Museu de Arte Moderne (Buenos Aires)
> and Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Group exhibitions include
> SIGGRAPH 2011 (Vancouver), Wing Luke Asian Art Museum (Seattle), and
> Usina do Gasômetro Cultural Center (Porto Alegre, Brazil).  She has
> been awarded numerous national fellowships, grants, residencies and
> awards including: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an AAUW Post-doctoral
> Fellowship, a Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields/Robotics, and
> fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York
> Foundation for the Arts, and Art Matters (NYC).
> Heidi Kumao is an Associate Professor in the Stamps School of Art &
> Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches a
> range of classes in media, time-based art forms, and conceptual art
> practice.
>
>
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>
> Renate Ferro
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
> Cornell University
> Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420
> Ithaca, NY  14853
> Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
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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
      http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net
Lab:  http://www.tinkerfactory.net

Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space
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