[-empyre-] Introduction to the November discussion on -empyre

[Dale Hudson]

Welcome to the November discussion, “Transnational Environments and Locative Places.” 

This month we invite special discussants whose new media practices reflect, reconstruct, recalibrate, and rethink each of these terms. An ecological way of thinking demands tracing these complex, mobile intersections between the technological, the natural, the aesthetic, the geographical, the social, and the migratory in order to understand them—and then act on them. Ecology means understanding how things, people, and ideas are interconnected. Ecology also suggests constant movement, change, composting, migration, growth, decay, renewal. The artists and collectives featured this month move from interpretations of representation towards encounters with presentation. The artists, designers, and collectives featured this month speculate on the volatile conjunctural folds between collaboration, participation, infiltration, intervention, micropublics, and the politics of ecologies and place. This investigation is designed to open up territories and places to consider the hinge between transnational environments and locative places in new media as a necessary and urgent social practice. We hope the discussion energizes speculations and provocations, unresolved terrains rather than fixed maps.



On Nov 4, 2015, at 5:39, Renate Terese Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:


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> Welcome to our November discussion on -empyre soft-skinned space,
> Transnational Environments and Locative Places.  The discussion will be
> moderated by long-time -empyre friends
> Patricia R. Zimmermann (United States), and Dale Hudson (United Arab
> Emirates/United States).  We are thrilled that their recent book Thinking
> Through Digital MediaTransnational Environments and Locative Places
> http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/thinking-through-digital-media-dale-hud
> son/?isb=9781137433619
> has been the  catalyst for this month¹s topic which highlights conceptual
> issues in global digital media practices. Thanks Patty, Dale and all of
> your guests for joining us this month.  I have included the moderator¹s
> biographies below. 
> 
> Moderator Biographies:
> DALE HUDSON (UAE/USA) is a media theorist, critic, and curator.  Dale
> Hudson is Associate Professor (NTE) and Curator of Film and New Media at
> New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. His work appears in
> American Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Screen, and other journals and
> anthologies. He is coauthor (with Patricia Zimmermann) of Thinking Through
> Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (Palgrave,
> 2015). He curates online exhibitions for the Finger Lakes Environmental
> Film Festival (FLEFF), and served on the preselection committee for the
> Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF).
> 
> PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN (USA) is Professor of Screen Studies and Codirector
> of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College, USA
> (www.ithaca.edu/fleff <http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff>). Her books include
> Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film; States of Emergency:
> Documentaries, Wars, Democracies; and Mining the Home Movie: Excavations
> in Histories and Memories. With Dale Hudson, she is coauthor of Thinking
> Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places
> (Palgrave, 2015). Two new books, Open Spaces: Openings, Closing and
> Thresholds of International Public Media (University of St. Andrews Press)
> and The Flaherty: 60 Years in the Cause of Independent Cinema (coauthored
> with Scott MacDonald) (Indiana University Press), will be published in
> 2016.
> 
> 
> Renate Ferro
> Visiting Associate Professor of Art
> Cornell University
> Department of Art
> Tjaden Hall, Office 306
> Ithaca, NY  14853
> Email: rferro at cornell.edu
> URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
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> 
> Managing Moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space
> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/
> 
> 
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