[-empyre-] All -empyre_ subscribers- please post What's on your bookshelf in 2021?

[Renate Ferro]

In upstate NY we have just had a fresh layer of snow and eveything is white.  It is freezing but still beautiful.  Hope you will all take a few minutes and post a few books or resources that are on your list to read and refer to over the 2021.  Also hoping you will post a short bio to introduce yourself to the list.  We have quite a few new subscribers, but so many of you who have been with us since the beginning.  Looking forward to reading.  Best from cold and snowy Ithaca, NY.  I just posted a PHOTO of our snowy landscape featuring a "future" member of -empyre- on our facebook page.  Renate
 

On 1/15/21, 7:13 PM, "Renate Ferro" <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:

    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