[-empyre-] Renate Ferro: What's on your Bookshelf 2021

[Renate Ferro]

Hello -empyre- subscribers. 
What a great opportunity to take some time away from my studio to assimilate some of the resources that I am hoping to read in early 2021.  Looking forward to hearing about your own choices. Please feel free to post your own list and also a biography of who you are and what you do. Happy New Year to all.  Renate

Acoustic Entanglements:  Sound and Aesthetic Practice by Kim Sabine 2017
	Sabine's book addresses the resonance between sound and culture signified by voice, memory, and movement. Looking forward to seeing how this resource will inspire two ongoing projects: REMOTE SENSING AND VIRAL TECHNICS which connect remembrance by highlighting trauma.  These projects incorporate sound, animated visual sequences and projection, 


You are the Weather, 2017
by Roni Horn
	An archival book about Horn's thoughts about the weather.  I am using this book as I proceed with my ongoing project I SPY A STORM.  A series of large-scale drawings, sculpture, and multi-media based on a storm that wrecked havoc in our wooded area where the wind and water downed thirty three century old trees. 

These titles are general items of interest: 

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, 2020 
by Legacy Russell

Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s, 2020
Edited by Ann Adachi-Tasch, Go Hirasawa, Julian Ross.

Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era, 2021
by Jaimie Baron

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, 2016
by Thomas L. Friedman 

Short Biography
I am a conceptual artist who toggles between the zones of old and new technologies. My work mobilizes opportunities for creative interactivity that incorporates issues relating to feminist psychological and sociological conditions. Although the term feminist may be contentious to some, I favor the term for the qualifier, as it defines those of us in compromised positions in life. 
Also aligned to my conceptual practice is a process-oriented, dynamic, critically based research frame. My work takes on create skins whose configurations include installation, interactive net-based projects, digital time-based media, drawing, text, and performance-based work. These creative skins include participatory, collaborative, generative, and customizable characteristics impacting the networked quality and therefore the forward trajectory of the development of my ideas.
Making art out of life’s materials and life’s materials out of art by blending the tactical material world with the networked immaterial world has enabled me to merge the real and the imaginary to experiment with sensation, affect and embodiment.

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 curatorial moderator. 
 


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