[-empyre-] Welcome to our June topic on -empyre: Plant Art and New Media

Tue Jun 2 01:39:39 AEST 2015

Hi all,

I just have some minor revisions to our schedule for guest
discussants, and I mistakenly left out a bio in my introduction. My
apologies. Below please find the corrected schedule and additional
bio. I'll of course introduce the discussants again at the beginning
of their weeks.

June 1 - 7: Week 1: Jasmeen Bains, Yi Zhou, and Jo Simalaya Alcampo

June 8 - 14: Week 2: Alana Bartol and Pei-Ying Lin (with Dimitrios
Stamatis, and Jasmina Weiss)

June 15 - 21: Week 3:  Amanda White and Špela Petrič (with Dimitrios
Stamatis, and Jasmina Weiss)

June 22 - 28: Week 4: Laura Cinti, Grégory Lasserre, and Anaïs met den Ancxt

Scenocosme is a collaboration between Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den
Ancxt. Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt are two artists
working together as a duo under the name Scenocosme. They work and
live in France. They develop the concept of interactivity in their
artworks by using multiple kinds of expression. They mix art and
digital technology in order to find substances of dreams, poetries,
sensitivities and delicacies. Their works come from possible
hybridizations between the living world and technology which meeting
points incite them to invent sensitive and poetic languages. They also
explore invisible relationships with our environment : they can feel
energetic variations of living beings. They design interactive
artworks, and choreographic collective performances, in which
spectators share extraordinary sensory experiences. Plants of their
artwork Akousmaflore react to the human touch by different sounds.
They use also water (Fluides), stones (Kymapetra) and wood (Ecorces;
Matières sensibles) as elements capable to generate tactile, visual
and sound sensory interactivity. Their artworks were presented in
several contemporary art and digital art spaces. Since 2004, they have
exhibited their interactive installation artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe
Centre for Art and Media (Germany), at Museum Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia (Canada), at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (USA), at Daejeon
Museum of Art (Korea), at Bòlit / Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona)
and in many international biennals and festivals.
http://www.scenocosme.com/
Patrick Keilty
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
University of Toronto
http://www.patrickkeilty.com/

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Renate Terese Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> Welcome Natasha Myers and thank you for joining our -empyre moderating
> team members Selmin Kara, and Patrick Keilty for the June discussion on
> -empyre soft-skinned space,"Plant Art and New Media².  This
> cross-disciplinary topic will bring together those interested in art,
> science, popular culture, philosophy and anthropology to examine the
> dynamics between culture and nature.  We look forward to a topic that
> tests the grounds for discussions between human and nonhuman, and organic
> and machinic life. Natasha, Selmin and Patrick will be introducing this
> topic shortly as well as this month¹s guests but I did want to thank them
> for organizing the monthly topic. We all look forward to it.
>
> Happy June to all
> Renate
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> Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University,
> the Director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory, Convenor of the Politics
> of Evidence Working Group, and co-organizer of Toronto's Technoscience
> Salon. Her anthropological research examines forms of life in the arts and
> biosciences. She is the author of Rendering Life Molecular: Models,
> Modelers and Excitable Matter (Duke, 2015), and has published articles on
> modes of embodiment, the senses, and affects in the life sciences
> indifferences, Social Studies of Science, Science Studies, and edited
> volumes. Her recent research examines the arts and sciences of botanical
> experimentation, the contours of the vegetal sensorium, and the affective
> ecologies of plant/insect relations. Her new work tracks the formation and
> propagation of plant publics as artists and scientists stage interventions
> in sites like botanical gardens. Links to her research, research-creation
> projects, and publications can be
>  found at http://natashamyers.org <http://natashamyers.org/>
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> Selmin Kara is Assistant Professor of Film and New Media at OCAD
> University. She has critical interests in digital aesthetics and tropes
> related to the anthropocene and extinction in cinema as well as the use of
> sound and new technologies in contemporary documentary. Selmin¹s work has
> appeared and is forthcoming in Studies in Documentary Film, Poiesis,
>  the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, Music and Sound
> in Nonfiction Film, Post-Cinema, and The Philosophy of Documentary Film.
> She has recently co-edited a journal issue on documentary art activism and
> is currently co-editing an anthology on emergent forms and genres in
> contemporary documentary, to be published by Routledge in Fall 2015.
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> Patrick Keilty is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the
> University of Toronto and Instructor in the Bonham Centre for Sexual
> Diversity Studies there. Professor Keilty works at the intersection of
> media studies, technology studies, and information studies. His primary
> teaching and research field is digital culture, with a particular focus on
> visual culture, new media art, metadata and database logic, database
> cinema, pornography, gender, sexuality, race, and critical theory. His
> monograph project, provisionally titled Database Desire, engages the
> question of how our embodied engagements with labyrinthine qualities of
> database design mediate aesthetic objects and structure sexual desire in
> ways that abound with expressive possibilities and new
> narrative and temporal structures. Recently, he has published and
> presented his SSHRC-funded research on a wide variety of topics, including
> embodiment and technology, algorithmic
> display, the history of information retrieval, technology and
> transformations of gendered labor, women in computing, design
>  and experience, compulsion and control, metadata and the creation of
> fetishistic networks, and feminist and queer new media and technoscience
> issues generally. More at http://www.patrickkeilty.com/.
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> Renate Ferro
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Art,Cornell University
> Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office:  306
> Ithaca, NY  14853
> Email:   <rferro at cornell.edu <mailto:rtf9 at cornell.edu>>
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