[-empyre-] OPEN CALL: an encouraging word to send your bio and reading lists

[J L]

Hi Everyone

Greetings from Buffalo, New York.  On my bookshelf, desk and mind these
days:

*Disorder: A Fable*, Leslie Kaplan
*The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void*, Jackie Wang
*Atlas of Anomalous AI*, ed. Ben Vickers and K. Allado-McDowell
*Natural:Mind*, Vilém Flusser
*The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology*, John Bellamy Foster
*Dialectics of Nature*, Friedrich Engels
*The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte*, Karl Marx
*To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy
Daguerreotypes*, ed. Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, and Deborah Willis
*Sing, Unburied, Sing*, Jesmyn Ward
*Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire*, Abolition
Collective

In two weeks, the Burchfield Penney museum will open their group show *Making
Strange*
<https://www.burchfieldpenney.org/exhibitions/exhibition:02-12-2021-05-30-2021-making-strange/>.
The curators have selected two works for the show: my video *Yoga Goat Nom
Nom <https://vimeo.com/357115658/888715cffc>*, and *Goodbye, World!*, a
networked installation produced in collaboration with media artist Jason E
Geistweidt.

Jason Livingston <https://www.jasonlivingston.net/> is a media artist, film
programmer, and writer.  His award-winning work has screened widely,
including Rotterdam International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives,
the Austrian Museum, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.  *Under Foot &
Overstory* is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.
Awarded residencies include the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts, and the Experimental Television Center. After teaching film
and media-making at leading cinema departments around the US for over a
dozen years, he has returned to school to pursue a practice-based PhD as a
Presidential Fellow with the Department of Media Study at the University at
Buffalo.  He holds a B.A in Philosophy from Cornell University, and a M.A.
and M.F.A. in Cinema from the University of Iowa.  He currently serves on
the Board of Trustees with the Flaherty Seminar.
See you 'round the Internet,
Jason









On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:15 PM Renate Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:

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> it has been fascinating to see the common themes but also the diversity of
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> Best. Renate
>
> For the last two weeks of January, 2021 we launch an open call to our
> members.  "What’s on your bookshelf in 2021?"  Share a list of the books,
> online publications and other resources (digital or otherwise) that are on
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