[-empyre-] student uprisings and solidarity movements and this discussion

[Dale Hudson]

Thanks, Renate and Tim, for this post with links to past discussions.

I think that many of us at institutions in South Africa and the United States (or connected to ones in these places like myself) have been focused on the student uprisings on campuses and solidarity movements by faculty and staff as well as students on other campuses.

In addition to the financial exclusions of students, there are curricular exclusions. Addressing ways that higher education sustains structural inequalities remains a topical issue.

In our book, Patty and I foreground projects that highlight the manyfold ways that structural inequalities frame our everyday experiences, including online ones. We think that these projects can facilitate discussions, whether transnational or subnational, on ways around state, corporate, and other institutional obstacles.

I’m wondering whether others might like to add to this discussion along the lines of Patty’s description of events at Ithaca College. Also, ways that artists, coders, and scholars have contributed to opening discussions on this or comparable topics.

Best,
Dale



On Nov 12, 2015, at 0:49, Renate Terese Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:

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