[-empyre-] All Call: May discussion Social Practice and Social Reproduction: the politics of participatory art

[Babak Fakhamzadeh]

Hi Renate,

I'm looking forward to the May discussion. And, though I'm not quite sure I
can meaningfully contribute to specifically the *politics* of participatory
art, you might enjoy a project I'm working on right now: Sauntering verse
auto generates Dadaist poetry based on the user's location. You can play
with it here: http://saunteringverse.com, and directly jump into creating a
poem here: http://www.saunteringverse.com/create.php
This works on any device, but best if you take your device for a walk.

Cheers,

Babak Fakhamzadeh

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On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Renate Ferro <renateferro at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Dear -empyre list servers,
>
> Sorry to interrupt the April discussion but our guest moderator for May,
> Kyle Lane-McKinley is looking for weekly guests for his upcoming topic,
> Social Practice and Social Reproduction: the politics of participatory
> art.  If there are any artists, curators, technologists, or theoreticians
> who are interested in joining in please contact me as soon as possible.
>
> Here is a snippet of what is ahead:
>
> "“Social Practice” has emerged as a useful, if contested, term to describe
> a variety of contemporary art practices which situate the audience as the
> medium or site of creativity. Pulling on tendencies within installation and
> performance art, anthropology, and anti-hierarchical political movements,
> among others, social practice sits alongside threads of new media
> production as inheritors of 20th century avant-garde experimentalism. At
> the same time, social practice has met with various criticisms: as a fad,
> a-political, utopian, white, erasing past efforts, and more.
>
>
> In this month’s discussion we aim to interrogate what is meant by “social
> practice,” what the political efficacy of such practices might be, and what
> the responsibilities of various actors and institutions involved might be
> to one another.”
>
> Thanks to all  Renate
>
> Renate Ferro
>
> Visiting Associate Professor
>
> College of Architecture, Art and Planning
>
> Department of Art
>
> Tjaden Hall 306
>
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