[-empyre-] -empyre March 2015: Welcome Kevin Hamilton

[Renate Terese Ferro]

We are pleased to welcome Kevin Hamilton to -empyre- for our March
discussion, Engineering the University :Technology, Values, and Labor in
Research. Our paths have crossed in real space on several occasions most
recently at the 2014 Hastac Conference in Lima, Peru last April.  It was
there on a warm afternoon I shared lunch with Kevin and several of his
students from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  That
afternoon we spoke about the potential for Kevin to guest moderate a month
of -empyre.  This month we welcome Kevin as well as a number of his
graduate students who have organized the upcoming month together.  He will
be introducing the topic, his students and their monthly guests tomorrow.
Thanks Kevin and welcome.
Renate
Kevin Hamilton Biography:

Kevin Hamilton 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, and serves as Dean¹s
Fellow for Research in the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Working in
collaborative and cross-disciplinary modes, Kevin produces artworks,
archives, and scholarship on such subjects as race and space, public
memory, history of technology, and state violence. His articles with Ned
O¹Gorman on Air Force film production have appeared in Rhetoric & Public
Affairs, Visual Culture, and Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies.
Their book-in-progress and accompanying digital archive traces the history
of the Air Force¹s most famous film unit, Lookout Mountain Laboratory,
from 1948 through 1969. At Illinois Kevin also co-directs the Center for
People and Infrastructures, an effort currently focused on the ethics and
civics of algorithmic culture through research, design, and outreach.
Kevin¹s artworks in digital form have appeared in Rhizome, Turbulence,
Neural, and the ASPECT DVD series. Recent commissioned artworks have
included a printed mural on the history of cybernetics, and a graphic
novel on race, geology, and university politics in Urbana, Illinois. More
of his work can be found at complexfields.org <http://complexfields.org/>.

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>>
URL:  http://www.renateferro.net <http://www.renateferro.net/>
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Lab:  http://www.tinkerfactory.net <http://www.tinkerfactory.net/>

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