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

[Carol-Ann Braun]

Hi Babak, 

You probably know of this fun « dada data » link, sponsored by ARTE :

www.dada-data.net 

The menus are not obvious, but if you persist, the site unfolds in all sorts
of interesting directions.

Carol-Ann

De :  <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of Babak
Fakhamzadeh <babak.fakhamzadeh at gmail.com>
Répondre à :  <babak.fakhamzadeh at gmail.com>, soft_skinned_space
<empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
Date :  lundi 25 avril 2016 23:02
À :  soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
Objet :  Re: [-empyre-] All Call: May discussion Social Practice and Social
Reproduction: the politics of participatory art

----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
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

--
Babak Fakhamzadeh | babak.fakhamzadeh at gmail.com |
http://BabakFakhamzadeh.com

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Renate Ferro <renateferro at gmail.com> wrote:
> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> 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:
> 
> "³Social Practice² 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 month¹s discussion we aim to interrogate what is meant by ³social
> practice,² what the political efficacy of such practices might be, and what
> the responsibilities of various actors and institutions involved might be to
> one another.²
> 
> 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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