[-empyre-] bio - gabriel menotti

[Leandro Delgado]

LEANDRO DELGADO

I am a sci-fi writer. My second novel, “Ur (a biological melodrama)” is
being released this week. In brief, it tells the story of several genetic
manipulated characters in the context of extreme poverty and isolation.

I’m also a poet and I’ve been performing my texts in complete darkness in
the company of Leonardo Secco, musician and programmer. In these
performances, listeners are exposed to my voice (NO MIKE) and elaborated
sound information from computers without any kind of visual disturbance as
well as taking advantage of different kind of acoustics according to
different architectonical spaces.

I got my PhD in Spanish at Rutgers University (NJ) and I wrote my
dissertation on Literature and Anarchism in the Río de la Plata in the
beginning of 20th century. I’ve been writing on these topics as well as the
relationship between anarchism, literature and nature in the period. I have
a daughter, I have no pets, and I live in Montevideo, Uruguay. I am glad to
be a lurker of this wonderful community.

oxibitue at gmail.com


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Gabriel Menotti
<gabriel.menotti at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Hey!
>
> What a nice opportunity to get to know more about the participants of the
> list, especially the lurkers (category to which I normally, proudly
> belong). =)
>
> My name is Gabriel and I have moderated a couple debates on empyre before,
> on topics like the denied distances of the cinematographic circuit, gaming
> subcultures and in/compatible research (with Magnus Lawrie). I was planning
> to do another on super-human agency, but teaching overwhelmed me completely!
>
> I have a PhD in Media and Communications (Goldsmiths, University of
> London) and another in Communication and Semiotics (Catholic University of
> São Paulo). Interests/ fields of activity include "cinema" and grassroots
> media. I often mingle research and practice, and thus ended up organising
> pirate screenings, remix film festivals, videogame championships, porn
> screenplay workshops, installations with film projectors, generative art
> exhibitions, academic seminars, and collective 3d-printed model-making
> sessions, among other things. Some of these works and research results have
> been presented in events such as ISEA, Rencontres Internationales
> Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Makeart, Interactivos?!, the São Paulo Biennial and
> Transmediale.
>
> Last year I published a regular "academic" book, Através da Sala Escura
> (br portuguese only, easy to find in PDF), which investigates the history
> of movie theatres under the light of contemporary art practices and VJing.
> Currently, I’m back in my home town, lecturing at the local Federal
> University of Espírito Santo (UFES).
>
> At this very moment, I'm in London helping organizing the Media
> Archaeology / Technological Debris conference+workshop that happens in
> Goldsmiths next week [http://technologicaldebris.info]. If you are
> around, be invited to come! =)
>
> Best!
> Menotti
>
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