[-empyre-] QUEER PARANORMAL :: Welcome to Week 4

[Margaret Rhee]

Just a quick thanks to the incredible Margaretha for curating a fascinating
and dynamic month of magic! Love the queer and decolonial angles, and
reminds me of the magic of conversations, the ether.

I think I met Margaretha here and then, a wonderful Skype visit to a class
I taught on Art Activism that includes Margaretha’s grafting work in San
Francisco. & more crossings with mutual friends like Jason Moore and
others. All pretty magical. Thanks again for your work, look forward to the
continuing conversation. xx

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:02 PM margaretha haughwout <
margaretha.anne.haughwout at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Dear -empyre-,
>
> Many many thanks to Fabi, Ricardo, Tony, Rhonda, Liat, Elia, Jon,
> WhiteFeather, Lucian, and Joanna for contributing to the fascinating
> conversation around MODERNITY'S SPELL. As always, the conversation can
> continue as we introduce this new week.
>
> This final week, we invoke the theme of QUEER PARANORMAL, the title of the
> current show curated by the 2Chairs Collective and Anne Thompson at the
> Bennington College Usdan Gallery (up until Dec. 07) -- to think about
> queerness, haunting, the past, and social change.
>
> So looking forward to reading everyone's thoughts.
>
> M
>
> ...
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> Two Chairs (curatorial collective, US)
> Two Chairs is a curatorial enterprise made up of artists, curators and
>  thinkers. Since 2014, Two Chairs has produced multiple projects that stage
> dynamic associations between artists and engage unexpected  sites—including
> a stream in Vermont, St. Mark’s Bookstore in NYC, and a Manhattan living
> room in an old-school Yorkville apartment.
>
>
> Rachel Stevens (US) she/her/hers
> Rachel Stevens is an artist, researcher and educator based in New York
> City. Her interdisciplinary and often collaborative work (sculpture,
> photography, video, internet archives, artist books, spatial practices and
> curatorial projects) investigates ecologies and geographies, moving images
> and archives. Stevens has presented at art and academic venues from
> Socrates Sculpture Park in NYC to ISEA in Durban, SA. Her work has been
> supported with residencies and grants from Casa GIAP (MX), Fondazione
> Antonio Ratti (Italy), iLand, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Polar
> Circuit (Finland), Puffin Foundation, Signal Culture, Signal Fire and Works
> on Water at Governors Island in NYC. She writes on media art and visual
> culture, is on the editorial board of Millennium Film Journal and teaches
> in the Hunter College Department of Film and Media. she/her/hers
>
>
> Efrén Cruz Cortés
> Efrén’s research is on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
> developing theory and algorithms for ML tasks involving complex data. E
> also studies the fair use of algorithms in an automated society. To
> understand how to “fairly” use AI in society we must understand “fairness”
> in a mathematical sense, as well as the limitations and potentialities of
> artificially intelligent systems. E sees collaboration with artists and
> performers as a way to both bring ideas to the public and to challenge our
> rotten econo-political system from an aestheto-critical perspective.
> Besides contributions regarding fairness in autoamtion, E’s expertise in AI
> and ML will aid APRIORI in formulation of theory, analysis and computation
> related to these topics, as well as contributions in network science. Efrén
> somehow got a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of
> Michigan. Efrén likes tacos.
>
>
> Jessica Posner (US) she/ her/ hers
> Jessica Posner is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, writer,
> educator, energy worker, and organizer who practices resilience and radical
> vulnerability as means for healing the self, body, and spirit. Posner’s
> 2017 experimental film, BUTTER BODY POLITIC, embraces butter as a metaphor
> for a delicious, fat, feminist, queer body politic. Posner has been working
> through the BUTTER BODY POLITIC since 2013, and created a variety of
> buttery experiences including live performances, sculpture, text, video,
> and workshops. In 2019, Posner edited all of the men out of the movie JAWS,
> and then performed karaoke and theory about it.
>
> Posner lives in Syracuse, NY, where she co-organizes the FLANNEL queer
> women’s event at Wunderbar in Syracuse, NY. Posner previously taught
> courses in Studio Art, Transmedia, and Writing at universities in Upstate
> New York. She recently guest edited a section of exhibition reviews for the
> special Stonewall 50th anniversary edition of QED: A Journal of GLBTQ
> Worldmaking (Michigan State University Press).
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Margaret Rhee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Media Study
SUNY Buffalo
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