[-empyre-] Welcome moderator Patrick Keilty to October on -empyre

[Renate Terese Ferro]

Welcome to our fellow -empyre moderator Patrick Keilty for agreeing to organize and host our October topic on -empyre soft-skinned space on the concept of flow. From meditation to addiction to compulsion, we welcome Patrick and his guests to consider the positive and negative inferences of this theoretical concept from the perspectives of human and machine interface.  Tim Murray and I became acquainted with Patrick during the summer he spent at Cornell's School of Criticism and Theory.  Since then we have benefitted and come to enjoy Patrick's cross-disciplinary interests, his quirky humor, and the rich texture of knowledge he adds to our -empyre conversations.  We are very thankful he has agreed to moderate this month.  Patrick's curation of this topic riffs off from recent and past topics including those involving boredom, panic, technology and subjectivity and gaming.

I have included his biography below:
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 studies, with a particular focus on visual culture, pornography, new media art, metadata and database logic, database cinema, critical theory, and theories of gender, sexuality, and race. His monograph project, provisionally titled Database Desire, engages the question of how our engagements with labyrinthine qualities of database design and algorithmic logic mediate aesthetic objects, create new cinematic techniques, and structure sexual desire in ways that abound with expressive possibilities and new narrative and temporal structures. More at http://www.patrickkeilty.com/.

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