[-empyre-] Thank you Margaret Rhee

[Margaret J Rhee]

Dear all,

Thank you Renate, for all her incredible guidance for the month, and 
support for robot poetics. I am grateful to Renate as she has remained 
an inspiring model for me, and so many others, and empyre, has always 
remained a generative, artistic, and community space. It was an absolute 
pleasure to join in conversation this month, and help curate the 
dialogue on robot poetics. To echo Renate, I want to kindly thank all of 
our incredible participants for this last week, Keith Wilson, Sun Yung 
Shin, Lynne Desilva-Johnson, Mark Marino, Ana Monroe, Jenny Rhee, and 
Saba Ravi, with their insights and creative work on machine dreams. My 
mind is still stimulated by all the thoughts shared, and hope to follow 
up shortly.

Thank you also to artist Margaretha Haughwout for her email this week to 
the thread started by Lynne. I first "met" Margaretha when we were 
participants in a week of social practice art, curated by Kyle McKinley. 
It is wonderful when digital lines cross in generative and inspiring 
ways, with all of our participants this last week revealed!

Additionally thanks to all our participants during the month, which 
includes Susan, Mike, Sunny, and Sean for Week One, Tung-Hui, Neil, and 
Dmitry for Week Two, and for Week Three, Sarah, Lawrence, and Betsy, for 
conversations were buoying and dynamic. All of the participant's time 
and insights and digital presence are immeasurable. Many thanks to those 
who participated from the empyre community, for a generative 
conversation, and your robot poetics.

warmly,

Margaret


On 2017-06-05 07:27, Renate Terese Ferro wrote:
> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> <snip>
> From Mark Marino
> These machine dreams, not quite nightmares, but haunting impressions.
> 
> It is not a raceless, egalitarian utopia.  Nor is it a Platonic ideal 
> on
> some frictionless, unblemished grid.
> 
> It is broken, glitchy, it is pimpled, it is lossy, it is partial.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> A huge thank you to Margaret Rhee for organizing, hosting and
> moderating the May topic Robot Poetics, Ephemera, and Other Concerns.
> We as an -empyre- community were thrilled that Margaret agreed to host
> a month inspired by her book of poetry RADIO HEART; OR, HOW ROBOTS
> FALL OUT OF LOVE and her zine MACHINE DREAMS.  It’s been a rich month
> with thanks to all of you who participated: Sun Yung, Ana, Margaretha,
> Keith, Saa, Chatter, Sunny, Susan, Murat, Sean, Sarah, Mark, Betsey,
> Tung Hui, Davin, Babak, Christopher, Lynne, Ben, Ann, Lawrence,
> William, Dimitry, Ruth, Neil and especially Margaret (hoping I did not
> forget anyone!).  So many of you were new contributors to -empyre- and
> we hope you will continue to stay involved.
> 
> Last night I caught a bit of television and saw this commercial on TV
> sponsored by Hewlett Packard:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT2eRiAFjrg
> 
> The advertisement is one in a series of advertisements featuring the
> character Michael a hybrid robot/employee who symbolizes YES
> technology a hybrid platform. Thanks Margaret and all for providing
> the critical lens for thinking about affect and robotics, dreams and
> technology, writing and popular culture.  I pulled out Mark Marino’s
> post from a post he made on May 27th that catalyzes that lens.
> 
> I’d like to remind all of our -empyre subscribers that The Machine
> Dreams Zine is up and running at:
> https://machinedreamszine.tumblr.com.
> The zine is a compilation of creative work and critical theory on the
> machine, arts, and difference. Contributions are largely drawn from
> the conference, Machine Dreams: A Symposium on Arts, Robots, and
> Difference held at UCLA in 2015 which was co-organized by Lucy Burns,
> Neil Aitken, and Margaret Rhee.
> 
> Thank you, thank you, thank you to Margaret with hopes that she will
> consider again guiding us through her work and interests again soon.
> Renate Ferro
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Renate Ferro
> Visiting Associate Professor
> Director of Undergraduate Studies
> Department of Ar
> Tjaden Hall 306
> rferro at cornell.edu
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Margaret Rhee, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor
Women's and Gender Studies
University of Oregon