[-empyre-] Welcome to Margaretha Haughwort: Magic and Technology

[Renate Ferro]

Dear -empyre- subscribers, 

For the month of November we welcome Margaretha Haughwort as moderator for an exciting month of discussion on, Magic and Technology. Margaretha is a member of our -empyre- advisory board.  She  curated the October, 2017 topic, Radical Aesthetics of Multispecies Worlding, Eco Art and Solidarity in a more than human Capitalocene,  http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2017-October/date.html

Margaretha participated in the Linz Unfinished project organized by Shulea Cheang and while she was there she participated in the -empyre- broadcast included -empyre- and four other listservs on radio.fro.  

Margaretha teaches in the Department of Art and Art History, Film and Media Studies at Colgate University in upstate New York. Her personal and collaborative artwork explores the intersections between ideas of technology and wilderness, digital networks and the urban commons, cybernetics and whole systems permaculture — in the context of ecological, technological and human survival.   Welcome once again Margaretha.  We welcome your nurtuance of -empyre- this month. Many thanks Margaretha for your nurturance of our listserv this month. 
Renate

Moderator's Biography: 
Margaretha Haughwout’s (US) creative work is a kind of multispecies worlding — a phrase introduced by Donna Haraway, who understands it to be the "patterning of possible worlds," a co-becoming that occurs through entanglements with other species. Haughwout collaborates with humans, the more-than-human, and technology to enact possible worlds -- worlds that generate abundance, presence and relationship — and in doing so, antagonize proprietary regimes, colonial temporalities, and capitalist forms of labor. Installation, participatory event, walking tour, experimental pedagogy, intervention, speculative fabulation, and biological processes articulate stages of worlding processes. In 2019, Haughwout’s work has been featured at Stadwerkstatt in Linz Austria, at the Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, and as a part of SLSA’s Experimental Engagements exhibition.


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