[-empyre-] September 2016: Through the NET: Net Art Then and Now

[Timothy Conway Murray]

Welcome to September,2016 on ­empyre- soft-skinned space:

 
Through the NET:  Net Art Then and Now moderated by Renate Ferro (US) and
Tim Murray (US) with featured discussants:

 
September 6 - 12: Craig Saper (US)
September 13 - 18th: Anna Munster (AU)
September 19 -  25th: Simon Biggs (AU)
September 26 - to 30: Claudia Pederson (US)

 
Welcome to the September discussion, Through the Net: Net Art Then and
Now.  Just this week on August 26th, news
organizations around the world were hailing the 25th Anniversary of Sir
Tim Berners-Lee conceptualized the centralized information hub of the
internet and its protocol markup language HTML. We will take the month of
September to not only reminisce about the grand plans that internet
art set out to accomplish, but also critically contemplate the historical
barrage of the commercial infiltration and how net artist have pushed back
by
using innovative methods for development and production.  From the first
buzzing hum of the slow and unreliable digital dialup through to the
evolution of tools such as email,
listservs, web sites, databases, software, and hardware intersected with
conceptual art notions linking hybrid text, image, animation, graphics,
audio
and/or video. Later tactical media, data visualization, and gaming gave
way to the speed and ubiquity of wireless where net art drives social
movements involving politics, ecology,
food, and so much more.
 
We gather this month a selection of experienced artists and new innovators
to ponder the history the past twenty-five years and its tension with the
world of art.  We plan to team our announced conversants with other
featured invited guests to be announced weekly.

 
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Biographies:

Moderators:

Renate Ferro (US) rferro at cornell.edu
Renate Ferro¹s creative work resides in the area of emerging technology,
new media and
culture. By aligning artistic,
creative practice with critical approaches to technology her work broadly
spans
installation, interactive net-based projects, digital time-based media,
drawing, text, and performance. Her artistic work has been featured The
Freud
Museum (London), The Dorksy Gallery (NY), The Hemispheric Institute and
FOMMA
(Mexico), The Janus Pannonius Muzeum (Hungary), and The Free University
Berlin
(Germany).  Her artwork has been published in such journals as Diacritics,
Theatre Journal, and Epoch..
She also is the founder of the Tinker Factory
<http://www.tinkerfactory.net/> Lab. Ferro is a Visiting Associate
Professor of Art at Cornell
University.  She has been on the moderating team for -empyre soft-skinned
space since 2007 and is currently the
managing moderator.

 
Timothy Murray (US) tcm1 at cornell.edu
Tim Murray is the Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media
Art, Director of the Society for the Humanities and Professor of
Comparative
Literature and English at Cornell University.  A curator of new media art
and a theorist of the digital humanities and arts, he is currently working
on
two monographs on new media art and curating and on  contemporary Asian
art, in dialogue with Digital
Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota,
2008).  Tim sits on the Executive Committee of the Humanities, Arts,
Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) and is editing
volumes
on Jean-Luc Nancy and Xu Bing. He is currently curating two exhibitions on
³Signal
to Code,² both at Cornell University, ³Fifty Years of Media Art in the
Goldsen
Archive² in the Cornell Library
(http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/signaltocode/),
and ³Video Art from the Goldsen Archive in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum
of Art²
(http://www.museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/signal-code).  He has been an
­empyre moderator since 2007.
 
Featured Guests:
 
Simon Biggs (AU) is Professor of Art in the
School of Art, Architecture, and Design at the University of South
Australia.  A former member of the
­empyre- moderating team, Simon is a new media artist, writer and curator
with interests in digital
poetics, interactive, auto-generative and affective systems,
interdisciplinary
research and co-creation across the creative arts, humanities and physical
sciences. His work has been widely presented, including at the Tate
(London and
Liverpool), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Centre for
Contemporary
Art (Glasgow), Kettles Yard Cambridge), Pompidou (Paris), Academy de Kunste
(Berlin), Kulturforum (Berlin), Rijksmuseum (Twenthe), Maxxi (Rome), Macau
Arts
Museum, San Francisco Cameraworks, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the
Art
Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney).

 
Anna Munster (AU) is an artist, writer, educator
and an Associate Professor in art and design, University of New South
Wales.
She is the author of An
Aesthesia of Networks <https://mitpress.mit.edu/aesthesia-networks> (MIT
Press 2013) and Materializing
New Media <http://www.upne.com/1584655577.html> (Dartmouth University
Press, 2006). Both of these
examine aspects of artists¹ engagements with networks and digital culture.
Anna
is also an artist, regularly collaborating with Michele Barker She has
worked
most recently on the installations evasion
<http://sensesofperception.info/barkermunster-collaboration/#%C3%A9vasion>
(2014), and HokusPokus
<http://sensesofperception.info/barkermunster-collaboration/#HokusPokus>
(2011) using soundscapes,
interaction and installation design to explore both human and nonhuman
movement
and perception. 

 
Claudia Pederson (US) is an Assistant Professor of Art
History in New Media & Technology.  Claudia¹s writings on play, games,
digital photography, and techno-ecological art are published
in Afterimage, Intelligent Agent, Eludamos, as well as
the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Design
Automation Conference (DAC), and CHI conference proceedings. Her most
recent essay on contemporary Latin American artists working with robotics
is
forthcoming in an anthology on Latin American Modernism. She has been a
curatorial
contributor to the Finger Lakes Film Festival (FLEFF) since 2007. Other
recent curatorial projects include, Gün, with Turkish women working in the
intersections of media and feminism (2011-2012), and Home/s, a curatorial
event with Turkish, Greek, and Bulgarian women at the Benaki Museum,
Athens,
Greece in 2013.

Craig Saper (US) is Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture
Doctoral Program at UMBC in Baltimore,
Maryland, US. Craig published Networked Art and, as dj Readies, Intimate
Bureaucracies ‹
both about net-art then (and now). His work on net-art also
appears in the Whitechapel Gallery's Networks, in
their Documents of Contemporary Art series and forthcoming in Beyond
Critique: Contemporary Art in Theory, Practice and Instruction. His
recently published "cross between an intellectual biography ...
and a picaresque novel,² and "a biography of a lost twentieth
century," The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown, tells the
comic story of a real-life Zelig and the ultimate networker.


 

 


Timothy Murray
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Taylor Family Director, Society for the Humanities
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu
A D White House
Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York 14853


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