[-empyre-] Critical Making in International Networks: Week 1 Guest Kevin Hamilton

[Timothy Conway Murray]

Hi, everyone.  We're pleased that we also will be joined this week by
featured guest, Kevin Hamilton.  Many of you will recognize Kevin from his
previous interventions as an -empyre- featured guest.  We've had the
pleasure to collaborate with him for many years and frequently find
ourselves discussing one particularly active month on -empyre- when Kevin
led our discussion of Critical Spatial Practice. When Kevin came to
Cornell as a guest of Renate's lab, The Tinker Factory, she heard from the
police when he equipped students with megaphones to make critical sound
interventions around the campus!  Welcome back to -empyre-, Kevin.

Kevin Hamilton (@complexfields) is Associate Professor at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he holds appointments in the School
of Art and Design and the program in Media and Cinema Studies. Working
largely in collaborative and cross-disciplinary settings, Kevin produces
artworks, archives, and scholarship on such subjects as race and space,
public memory, history of technology, and state-mediated violence. He is
currently at work on a history of Lookout Mountain Laboratories, a Cold
War film production unit operated by the Air Force. Kevin's artwork has
been featured on Rhizome, Turbulence, and Neural; recent work has also
included video for the ASPECT DVD series, and a self-produced comic book.
At Illinois he also serves as Coordinator of Digital Scholarly
Communication for the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and
as Co-Director of the Center for People and Infrastructures.






On 4/3/14 3:55 PM, "Timothy Conway Murray" <tcm1 at cornell.edu> wrote:

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>We are delighted to welcome to -empyre- the guests for the opening week of
>April's discussion of Critical Making in International Networks.  Our
>guests are leading international figures in networked media, performance,
>and open hardware.  We are especially happy to welcome Marcus Bastos back
>to -empyre-; longtime participants of -empyre- recall Marcus' tremendous
>contributions to the listserv during his many years on the moderating
>team. Denisa Kera from Singapore will be posting occasionally throughout
>the month on the maker and hacker scenes in Shenzhen, China, Singapore,
>and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. So keep your eyes peeled for her posts.  We're
>also thankful that Diana Taylor is making time to join us.  A few years
>ago, we were graciously hosted in Chiapas, Mexico, by Diana at the
>Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, which Diana founded and
>directs.  We look forward to benefiting from her vast experience in
>critical making.  And to set the stage of this month's exciting
>collaboration between -empyre- and HASTAC, we're joined by Kevin Franklin
>and Daniel Herwitz of the HASTAC Executive Board.  Daniel hosted the 2012
>annual meeting of HASTAC at the University of Michigan and Kevin has gone
>an extra mile to organize this year's HASTAC meeting in Peru.
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>Welcome to you all; we're so looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
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>Bios:
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>Marcus Bastos (Brazil), a former member of the -empyre- moderating team,
>is an artist, curator and researcher on the areas of convergence between
>audiovisual, design and new media. PhD in Communication and Semiotics at
>the Pontificial Catholic University of São Paulo, he is author of
>Recycling Culture (NOEMA Gallery, 2007) and one of the editors of
>Appopriations of the (Un)common: public and private space in times of
>mobility (Sergio Motta Institute, 2009). He edited, with Lucas Bambozzi
>and Rodrigo Minelli, the book Mediation, Technology, Public Space ­ A
>Critical Panorama of Art in Mobile Media (Conrad, 2010). He was curator of
>Noise on Video (Itaú Cultural Institute, 2005), Cellular Geographies
>(Telefonica Foundation, 2010), installation ­> video (SESC TV / SESC Arts
>Show) and VIVO Arte.Mov ­ International Festival of Art in Mobile
>Media,(2007-2011). Among his most recent projects are the multimedia opera
>HO: city lights (ProAC, 2012), the audiovisual composition she, lonely,
>thinks of that (SESC Arts Circuit, 2010) and Operation´s Field (video
>essay on the homonymous DVD by Nelson Brissac, JoséResende and Heloísa
>Maringoni, 2012). He was director of experimental documentaries such as
>Giuseppe, etc (2011), Free Radicals (2006) and Shapeless Interface (2006).
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>Kevin Franklin (US) is Executive Director for the Institute for Computing
>in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS); Senior Research
>Scientist at the
>National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); Research Professor
>Education Policy, Organization and Leadership and Adjunct Associate
>Professor
>in African American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He
>is a principal co-founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology
>Alliance
>and Collaboratory (HASTAC) and founder of the HASSgrid, a distributed
>Cyberinfrastructure to support humanities, arts and social sciences data
>preservation and archives. Dr. Franklin is on the Advisory Boards for the
>Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design
>(CIVDDD) and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
>(XSEDE). In addition to his United States HASS Cyberinfrastructure work,
>Kevin leads a number of international research activities including the
>Organization of American States - Advanced Research and Technology
>Collaboratory for the Americas (OAS-ARTCA).
>In 2010 HPCwire named him one of the top 12 people to watch in
>Supercomputing. 
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>Daniel Herwitz (US) received the Ph.D. In Philosophy from University of
>Chicago in 1984, and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since
>2002. A member of the HASTAC Executive Board and former Director of the
>Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Daniel is the author
>of The Star as Icon, Key Concepts in Aesthetics, Race and Reconciliation,
>Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde, and
>Husain. He has also published Midnight¹s Diaspora: Critical Encounters
>with Salman Rushdie, a book of essays co-edited with Ashutosh
>VarshneyAction, Art, History: Critical Engagements with Arthur
>Danto edited with Michael Kelly, and The Don Giovanni Moment edited with
>Lydia Goehr. Additional publications include articles on a wide range of
>topics in philosophy, film studies, visual studies, avant-garde music,
>literature and architecture. Herwitz won a National Book Award in India
>for Husain. He was Mellon Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center
>(1991-2) also courtesy of the ACLS, and Andrew Mellon Visitor Scholar at
>the University of Cape Town (2010). His forthcoming book, Heritage,
>Culture and Politics in the Postcolony explores the role of heritage
>formation in South Africa, India and the United States, treating that
>particular rewriting of the past as a window into moral, artistic, social
>and political urgencies (Columbia Press).
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>Denisa Kera (Singapore) http://nus.academia.edu/DenisaKera is a
>philosopher and a designer, who uses prototypes to research open science
>and citizen science issues. She writes on how open hardware supports
>democratization of science, science diplomacy and infrastructure enabling
>research in the Global South. In her recent projects, she is trying to
>connect traditional crafts with open hardware and build radiation chimes
>in the http://www.totematons.orgproject, design microfludic devices for
>Indonesian wayang theatre, or explore the possibility of citizen science
>driven open antibiotic research connecting bioprospecting with games
>http://brmlab.cz/project/biolab/biostrike. She works as an Assistant
>Professor at the National University of Singapore and Asia Research
>Institute fellow, where she is bringing together Science Technology
>Society (STS) studies, Science Communication and Interactive Media Design.
>She uses design methodologies and prototypes based on open hardware as
>tools for deliberation and public participation in R&D probing
>experimental policy. Since 2010 she is following and engaging with
>alternative R&D places (Hackerspaces, FabLabs) around the world, and
>especially with the DIYbio movement and various citizen science projects,
>which offer a model for
>experimental approach to policy. She has extensive experience as a curator
>of exhibitions and projects related to art, technology and science (2005 -
>2008),
>and previous career in internet start-ups and journalism (1998 - 2004).
>This month she will be posting from the Dangerous prototypes workshop in
>Shenzhen 
>http://dangerousprototypes.com/2014/02/06/shenzhen-workshop-april-3-5-2014
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>, the biggest Maker Fair in Shenzhen http://www.shenzhenmakerfaire.com
><http://www.shenzhenmakerfaire.com/> and HackteriaLab network for
>openbiology symposium and workshop on open science of the Global south
>http://www.hackteria.org/wiki/index.php/HackteriaLab_2014_-_Yogyakarta.
>Denisa joins us for a conversation on open hardware, global and local
>hacking, tinkering,
>making, its genealogy, future and other perspectivesŠ.
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>Diana Taylor (US) is founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of
>Performance and Politics, funded by the Ford, Mellon, Rockefeller,
>Rockefeller Brothers and Henry Luce Foundations, and University Professor
>and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU. She is the author
>of the award-winning Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin
>America, Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in
>Argentina's 'Dirty War',
>The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the
>Americas, which won the Outstanding Book from the Association of
>Theatre in Higher Education, and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for
>Best Book in Latin American and Hispanic Studies from the Modern Language
>Association. She has also authored several books in Spanish, including
>PERFORMANCE, in Editorial ASUNTOS IMPRESOS, (forthcoming in
>English with Duke U.P.), and Acciones de memoria: Performance, historia, y
>trauma. Peru: 2012. She has edited over a dozen print books and three
>digital
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