[-empyre-] BOOKSHELF: Renate Ferro

Tue Jun 21 07:51:06 AEST 2016

Hello friends. Here is my list:

Joshua Clover - Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings (2016)
Nicholas Mirzoeff - The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011)
Nina Power - One dimensional woman (2009)
John Roberts - Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (2016)
Arte y disidencia política: memorias del Taller 4 Rojo (2016)
Laura Poitras - Astro Noise (2016)

Best,
Andre

2016-06-08 22:09 GMT-03:00 Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com>:

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> My list (the short one I live with 7000 books and a cat who loves chewing
> them :)
> 1 The game of War, by Andrew Hussey. A great biography of Guy Débord one
> of the founders of the Situationist Movement.
> Publisher Jonathan Cape 2001
>
> 2 Beyond the Postcolonial Theory, by E San Juan Jr. 1999 MacMillan
> Good analyses of Gramsci Paulo Freire al Sadawi etc etc
>
> 3 Cybertrends by David Brown. Viking 1997
> Chaos power and accountability in the information age. Good intent of
> understand the new ethic and the new boundaries. And it was written before
> social media as Facebook killed privacy and integrity.
>
> 4 Technology Pessimism and Postmodernism edited by Yaron Ezrahi and
> others. University of Massachusetts 1994. Good book using Lyotard and
> Baudrillard as interprets of the society of information.
>
> 5 Emergencia by the Chilean artist living in New York Alfredo Jaar. Great
> book about African Art and literature. Translated into several languages
> and following his exhibition showing the African continent emerging from a
> water basin.
>
> Ana Valdes writer sometimes freelance curator and sometimes guest
> moderator of -empyre :)
> Den 8 jun 2016 13:35 skrev "Renate Terese Ferro" <rferro at cornell.edu>:
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>> Bookshelf:  Renate Ferro
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>>
>> Summer for me in upstate New York is all about catching up with
>> everything two semesters of teaching has side-tracked me from.  While Tim
>> and I try to spend some down time on Lake Cayuga, in my studio I am in the
>> midst of two new studio projects.  Gathering together a grouping of books
>> that I have intended to read cover to cover has been a cathartic practice
>> to begin my summer. I hope that many of our -empyre- subscribers will join
>> in and share their own personal favorites.
>>
>>
>> Here’s my list:
>> Social Works by Shannon Jackson (Routledge, 2011)
>> Tactical Media by Rita Raley (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
>> Feminist Consequences by Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka (Columbia
>> University Press, 2002)
>> Performing Mixed Realty by Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi (MIT
>> Press, 2011)
>> Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance by
>> Laura Poitras (Whitney Museum and Yale University Press, 2016)
>> Listening by Jean-Luc Nancy (Fordham University, 2007)
>> Digital Baroque by Timothy Murray (University of Minnesota, 2008)
>> The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Random House, 2002)
>> Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge (Tom Doherty Associates, 2006)
>>
>>
>> Over the last year I have crossed personal (real and virtual) paths with
>> Shannon Jackson and Micha Kavka inspiring their two titles to be included
>> on my list.  Rita Raley’s Tactical Media I have read parts of but want the
>> chance to read in its entirety.  It seems to be a favorite read by so many
>> of my students and I just wanted to give it a bit more time.
>>
>>
>> My recent panel at the College Art Association on augmented reality and a
>> studio project, Eye Spy a Storm, inspired me to include Benford and
>> Giannachi’s text as well as the popular novel Rainbow’s End.
>>
>>
>> I lived through Tim Murray’s Digital Baroque while it was being written
>> so while I have read it in bits and pieces while it was being written I
>> thought it might be time to read it from cover to cover before his
>> new one comes out.
>>
>>
>> Listening by Jean-Luc Nancy is another title that many colleagues from
>> Cornell reference so I thought I would add that one to the list.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps the best exhibition I have seen in New York City thus far in 2016
>> is Laura Poitras’ Astro Noise at the Whitney Museum.  There is an
>> interesting round table discussion online with Laura and the contributors
>> here:  http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/LauraPoitras   but I am really
>> looking forward to reading the catalog.
>>
>>
>> And lastly, The Botany of Desire will be a great companion to me this
>> summer as I did in my vegetable garden.
>>
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>> There are a few other titles that are on my purchase list:
>> Mass Effect:  Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century by Lauren
>> Cornell and Ed Halter
>> Domain Errors: Cyber-feminist Practices by Fernandez, Wilding and Wright
>>
>>
>> And of course last but not least Ashley Ferro-Murray’s recent
>> dissertation from Berkley, Choreography in the Digital Era:Dancing the
>> Cultural Differences of Technology.
>> That one is getting extra special attention.
>>
>>
>> Happy reading to all.
>> Renate Ferro
>>
>>
>> Short bio:
>> I am a conceptual new media artist who toggles between the creative skins
>> of old and new technologies. My artistic practice embraces critical
>> interactivity incorporating social and theoretical paradigms
>> of the psychological and sociological condition with networks of
>> technology. By aligning artistic, creative practice with critical
>> approaches to cyber-configurations, I actualize emerging creative skins
>> whose resulting configurations include installation, interactive net-based
>> projects, drawing, text, and performance.
>>
>>
>> I have taught in the art department at Cornell University since 2004.  My
>> strong interest in collaborative research inspired me to found the Tinker
>> Factory Lab, a creative research lab to enable
>> new collaborative initiatives.
>>
>>
>> I am the managing moderator for –empyre- soft-skinned list-serv and have
>> served on their moderating board since 2007.
>>
>>
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>> Renate Ferro
>> Visiting Associate Professor
>> College of Architecture, Art and Planning
>> Department of Art
>> Tjaden Hall 306
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