[-empyre-] empyre January 2013 wrap

[Danny Butt]

I'll take the dialogue with Adrian off list (perhaps to somewhere in Melbourne that serves beverages), but just wanted thank you Simon for assembling the excellent range of discussants and keeping us close to the realpolitik in your typically subtle manner.

Having been a part of a number of these online debates, this has been one of the most enjoyable ones even as a late arrival, precisely because of the diversity of institutional positions. We are a long way from done with the dialogue and I'd echo the other comments that these sessions help reorientate us to the aesthetic and intellectual problems underlying the banal yet pressing difficulties we face in our day-to-day attempts to keep creative enquiry moving.

Cheers,

Danny
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On 28/01/2013, at 3:50 AM, Simon Biggs wrote:

> As we approach the end of the month of January we bring the month's theme on research and practice in relation to the artist's PhD to a close - although informal discussion can continue. In the next couple of days Renate and Tim will announce the empyre theme and our guests for the month of February.
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> We would like to thank this week's discussants Keith Armstrong, Wendy Kirkup, Mike Leggett, Daniela Alina Plewe and Miguel Santos, as well as the invited discussants for the prior two weeks, Cécile Chevalier, Laura Cinti, Talan Memmott, Maria Mencía, Anne Sarah Le Meur, Maria Grade Godinho, Sue Hawksley, Donna Leishman and Bronwyn Platten. We would also like to thank all those members of empyre who have contributed to what has been a lively and intriguing debate and everyone who has been following the discussion. Empyre continues to be a dynamic living community of people who continue to find the listserv environment one that can facilitate critical and discursive exchange.
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> To place this month's discussion, on the relationship between research and practice in connection with artist's PhDs, in something of an historical context it might be relevant to remind ourselves that the empyre listserv was, itself, developed as part of an artist's PhD project. Melinda Rackham, who's PhD titled Empyrean: Soft Skinned Space was awarded in 2003, established the empyre listserv as part her doctoral research in order to seek clearer insight into how creative practitioners actively form themselves within the nebulous and motile spaces that are the internet and consider how that discursive space can foster more motile and fluid properties that often absent in other structured contexts. In a sense our discussion this month has, over ten years later, seen a revisiting of some of the themes Melinda was engaging and which, as we have seen, other creative practitioners, seeking to understand how research can inform their work, have continued to query. Over the decade the internet has changed enormously, with the advent of Facebook, Twitter and other mediating layers and protocols that have functioned to remediate the internet, forming what is sometimes called Web 2.0 or the social web. In this context Melinda's model of what the social might be continues to be highly relevant.
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> It remains apparent that the circle is not closed and the debate concerning research and creative practice remains open, active and disputed. Given that as artists and researchers we wouldn't want it any other way we can assume we agree this is generally a good thing.
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> Many thanks to all for this month's enlightening and engaging discussion.
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> best
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> Simon
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