[-empyre-] RE : empyre Digest, Vol 134, Issue 5

[Julian Oliver]

Hi,

..on Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:39:26AM +0100, kdmatos at orange.fr wrote:
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> Hello dear empyre mailing list members.
> 
> I have been reading many posts and followed exchanges on this list for a long time.
> Does it address also independent artists who are not part a given academic institution?
> 
> Our work is dedicated to art making and its connected research through a reflexive approach which is not based necessarily on written publications.
> 
> Is there room in this list for people like us?

I'd hope so! I've been on this list since a long time and have had no sustained
institutional affiliation since beginning my practice in 1996 - surviving
entirely by way of public lectures, workshops, exhibition fees, arts funding and
the odd award.

Cheers,

-- 
Julian Oliver
http://julianoliver.com
http://criticalengineering.org
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Beware the auto-complete life.

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: year of the monkey soft skin-space just slipping in like
>       this post (Laini Burton)
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> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:10:53 +1000
> From: Laini Burton <l.burton at griffith.edu.au>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] year of the monkey soft skin-space just
> slipping in like this post
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> Hi All,
> 
> A question. Is there a general database or site where empyre members locate
> their bios and projects? If so, please do let me know. There are so many
> wonderful references people are sharing and if project-specific needs
> arise, a database or site with information like this would make it much
> easier to contact potential collaborators.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Laini Burton
> 
> On 4 February 2016 at 09:15, Hellen Sky <hellen at hellensky.com> wrote:
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> > best to all  empyrees
> >
> > for a monkey year
> >
> > this one now we are just in
> >
> >
> >
> > i have appeared and peered  into  this list for years
> >
> > and   as other dead lines loom excuse the the repurposing of this  about
> > you ......   in less than 2400 characters
> >
> > Hellen Sky is a digital choreographer, performer, writer, researcher,
> > visual artist, recognized internationally as a leader in the digital
> > performance field. She is valued for her research and reflection on dance,
> > embodiment and human computer interaction. Her work unearths the paradigms
> > investigating choreographic forms that allow dancers agency to  shape
> > sonic and visual  elements as an expansion of artistic expression.
> >
> >
> >
> > Placing equal value on the movement between all aspects of the work -
> > installation or performance, sound, light, objects, body, texts, screen,
> > textures; the potential of the site, the potential of a gesture, her
> > projects are complex and multi-layered and achieved over a number years and
> > advanced through modular collaborations.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hellen Sky & Collaborators' work to date has built on computer
> > interactivity and motion-sensing  technology in tandem with the
> > ?cellular? perceptual choreographic practices of Deborah Hay; embodiment  and
> > sensibilities  become thus heightened through connectivity and allow to
> > bring  performers together  globally through the conduit of screens, real
> > time vision-mixing, pre-recorded and live camera feeds and motion sensing
> > technologies, destabilizing concepts of a fixed stage, performer and avatar
> > as different aspects of self
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > A few projects:
> >
> >
> >
> > The LIGHTROOM new media movement opera - a glass built ?theatre? with
> > complex layerings of images choreographed through the spatial design and
> > live environment: an ode to the end of the 20th century.
> >
> >
> >
> > Darker Edge Of Night ? ( with Dr Garth Paine systems design electro
> > acoustic composer) a suite of wearable wireless bio sensors transmit real
> > time data sets, interpolations of gestures, a blink of an eye, muscle
> > contractions, a finger rotation, sound patches and software analysis
> > interpolates biodata sets as real time orchestrations and unprecedented
> > responsibility for the performer as sound and movement the consequence of
> > simultaneous awareness, a tiny gesture can have a huge affect, voice can
> > become the wind.
> >
> >
> >
> > Publication include
> >
> > "Sensing the potential of Difference: a choreography of interconnectivity
> > ? a global dance", in *Identity Performance and Technology ? practices of
> > empowerment, agency and technicity, ed. Susan Broadhurst, *Palgrave
> > Macmillan, 2012
> >
> >
> >
> > ?Sky points us to a global choreography and the multiple sensing of our
> > digitally engaged world ? her 'choreography of interconnectivity? includes
> > our collective cellular breathing and listening where edges smudge.. her
> > perceptual agency is  created through   the listening sensing self, and
> > her connection between self-knowledge and an ethical relationship with the
> > world? - Thecla Schiphorst, Foreword to *Identity, Performance and
> > Technology- Practices of empowerment, Embodiment and  Technicity*, 2012
> >
> >
> > best wishes
> >
> >
> > Hellen Sky
> > digital choreographer, performer, director/teacher/writer/researcher
> >
> > Hellen Sky & Collaborators
> > E- hellen at hellensky.com
> > Mob +614 03 218 673
> > Skype - hellenskype1
> > U.tube - hellenskyable
> > www.hellensky.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr Laini Burton
> Lecturer, Digital Media
> Convenor: Studio Art; Gold Coast Campus Convenor, Honours
> Teaching: Studio Art, Fashion Design, Art Theory
> Queensland College of Art
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