[-empyre-] resonances to -empyre traditions: research and practice

[Renate Terese Ferro]

Dear Dale and Patty and guests,
Tim and I join our international assemblage of -empyre participants in
thanking you for curating this engaging discussion on our list-serv.  The
interdependence between practice and research have been a central theme in
many of our past discussions over the years. To name a few, in September
2007 we hosted a group of international artists and architects who
featured a discussion we called "Critical Spatial Practice²
http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2007-September/date.htm
l  and in May of 2009 we hosted an extension of that discussion entitled
"Critical Motion Practice."
http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2009-May/date.html
During both of these discussions we investigated how research and practice
align with the critically with the cyber- configurations of networks,
embodiment and space.  The discussions included a vast array of creative
workers including artists, architects, dancers, programmers and others
whose space of reflective practices incorporated critical issues involving
culture and politics. In November of 2012 we hosted another discussion
entitled Risk:  From Culture to Practice
http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2012-November/date.html
 where 
our discussions revolved around the unstable territories of new media and
culture in relation to economic collapse, environmental degradation,
immunological threat and military incursion.

I see interesting resonances between these past discussions but also
interesting evolutions.  
TRANSNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH/PRACTICE
and its affiliated potentials and limitations might provide the platform
for each of your guests to reflect on how they see their own transnational
practices have changed over the years. Positively or negatively  the
ubiquity and depth of the internet, the wide-spread use of social media,
the ease of air travel might be a few obvious influences.  How do these
changes affect the way collaboration evolves in the way your creative
exchanges take place?  Last week the discussion on Mobile APPS gave us
cues into ways in which artist¹s  are converging collaborative interests
through the node of APPS and mapping.

We invite all of the artists to post their Url websites, YOU TUBE or vimeo
links so that we can all look more carefully at the work.  The -empyre
list-serf does not allow for images to be uploaded but if any of you are
FACEBOOK users you can post images on our page -empyre by just friending
us. 

Thanks again and looking forward to more.
'Renate and Tim



Visiting Associate Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art
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Ithaca, NY  14853
Email: rferro at cornell.edu
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