[-empyre-] Welcome to our new -empyre topic: Between Biology and Art

[Renate Terese Ferro]

Welcome to February 2017 on –empyre soft-skinned space
Between Biology and Art

 
Moderated by
Renate Ferro (US) with invited discussants 
 
 
Introduction:  Byron Rich (US)
 
Week 2: February 13 Lindsay Kelley (AU), Kathy High (US)
 
Week 3: February 20 Soyu Lee (KR  ) Paul Vanouse (US)
 
Week 4:  February 27 Tarsh Bates (AU), Antoinette LaFarge (US), and Margherita Pevere

 
Within the hybrid interventions of BIOART, the tools of the citizen artist and new media technologies converge. This month –empyre- subscribers and guests will inhabit the territories
between biology and art. Between the boundaries of truth and the imagination the cross-disciplinary discipline relates to such conceptual issues as politics, race, feminism, ethics, and scientific methodology, among others.  Networked technology, social media, new media practices, participatory practices, performance, sound, video and a host of other new media and networked practices
have been at the center of communicating this research.

 
A side note: A few of our guests will converge in real space as part of the College Art Association’s New Media Caucus Round Table.  The title of the round table, Between Biology
and Art, will convene on February 17th from 3:30 to 5:00 pm in at the New York Hilton Hotel, 2nd Floor in the Gibson Suite.  If you are a part of the College Art Association hope you will drop by but in the meantime for the entire month of February we will include an international group of artists whose research resides in this cross-disciplinary

Biographies are listed below.
 
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I will introduce our guests weekly.  Looking forward to this discussion.  Renate Ferro

Moderator’s Biography:
Renate Ferro’s (US) creative work resides within the areas of emerging technology, new media and culture. Her artistic work has been featured at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), The Freud Museum (London), The Dorksy Gallery (NY), The Hemispheric Institute and FOMMA (Mexico), and The Janus Pannonius Muzeum (Hungary). Ferro is a Visiting Associate Professor of Art at Cornell University.  She has been on the moderating team of -empyre- soft-skinned space since 2007 and is currently the managing moderator.



Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rferro at cornell.edu