[-empyre-] Week 1: Laying the foundation for The Dawn of Aquarius: Art, Intuition and Technology

Tue Mar 2 14:07:00 AEDT 2021

Dear -empyre- subscribers,
Welcome to Week one:  The Dawn of Aquarius:  Art, Intuition and Technology.  I am thrilled to introduce my collaborator this month Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala.  Arshiya and I were graduate students at Cornell, Arshiya a PhD student in the History of Art Department.  Arshiya has always been a supporter and curator of video art and I recall a few of her amazingly wonderful exhibitions during her time at Cornell.  Since then she has went on to become the foundering director/curator of the Lakeeren Gallery in Mumbai, India. Over the years we have run into her in Paris and New York and we could not be happier she has joined us during the month.  We welcome her expertise in curating, but also her interests in technology.  Arshiya has curated an exhibition which has inspired our collaboration here on -empyre- Her curatorial statement and the work she has included can be seen here:
www.lakeeren.com<http://www.lakeeren.com>

We also warmly welcome Tim Murray another long-time collaborator.  Tim always is able to look at art, technology, history and culture in an amazingly deep and cross-disciplinary way.

Both Arshiya, Tim and I will layout the beginning of our discussion with the hopes that our subscibers will also feel free to chime in.
Below are Arshiya and Tim’s biographies.

I will also mention that -empyre- will be hosting a virtual mini-conference on March 19th at 9:30 am EST. The registration link is
 https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdemsrzspH9Qs924AZuHFNHHXudUcSdaA
The mini-conference will pick up on our discussion but highlight several special guests that we will introduce a bit later this week.

Most of you who are longterm subscribers know that we have touched down in real space over the years. -empyre- was featured as part of documenta 12's Magazine Project conducting three moderated conversations by Christina McPhee in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, -empyre- collaborated with the Anderson Art Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado to offer two Presidential Full Merit Scholarships to members of the -empyre- community. In 2008 -empyre- co-hosted a special conference with City Light Books on Paul Virilio in San Francisco. In 2009, a special panel on "viral marketing" was hosted by Exit Art in New York City. In 2010 a discussion held around The Making Sense Colloquium at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, was sponsored by -empyre-. In the fall of 2011 -empyre- hosted a networking event at the annual ISEA (International Symposium for Electronic Arts) in Istanbul. In 2014, -empyre-touched down in Lima, Peru as part of HASTAC. Renate Ferro delivered a panel paper on "Critical Making in an International Context” in tandem with the April topic that Tim Murray jointly moderated. And finally, in Hong Kong at ISEA 2016, Tim Murray and Renate Ferro hosted a panel on “e-discourse in online networked communities: structure, timing, tone, and affect.”

It is always an experience to extend our virtual community into other realms and Zoom is most fitting in 2021.  Onward and looking forward.
Best, Renate

Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala is an art historian and curator and [Ph. D. Cornell University] Master’s of Arts in Curating, Goldsmith College, London], and the founding director/curator of Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India. Her recent museum curatorial projects include The Future is Here: Art and Technology in Millennial Age [2019], Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post –Independent from India at Dr. Bahu Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai [April 2017] and Raza Foundation, Delhi [January 2017], India Re- Worlded: Seventy Years of Investigating a Nation [2017] for which she was awarded the curator of the year award by India Today, Given Time: The Gift and Its Offerings [2016] both at Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai. After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997 [2015] at the Queens Museum, and Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India for the RPG Foundation in Mumbai, and Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India at the Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi [2011]. She was been teaching South Asian Feminism in the Art Institute of Chicago, USA in the Art History department since 2019. She has curated over 200 shows at Lakeeren Gallery, which included an international program of artists from India, Pakistan, Iran, and Germany & Mexico City. Dr. Lokhandwala writes on globalization, feminism, performance, and new media with a specialization in biennale and large-scale exhibitions. Arshiya Lokhandwala lives and works in Mumbai and New York.
www.Lakeerengallery.com<http://www.Lakeerengallery.com>

Tim Murray
A longtime member of the -empyre- moderation team, Tim Murray is Director of the Cornell Council for the Arts, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, and Founding Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in the Cornell Library. He has curated the international exhibition “Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom” (https://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu), and with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, the conceptual internet art journal, “CTHEORY Multimedia” (http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu). More recently, he joined Sarah Watson and Sherry Miller Hocking on “The Experimental Television Center: A History, ETC” at Hunter College Galleries in New York City, and at Cornell, he curated “Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Goldsen Archive” (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/signaltocode/) as well as the 2018 and 2020 Cornell Biennials (http://cca.cornell.edu/?p=2020-biennial.
He is awaiting production of Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art(Minnesota, 2022).  Among his books are Medium Philosophicum: Pensar tecnológicamente el arte (Universidad de Murcia, 2021), Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008), Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-Rom (Centro de la Imagen, 1999), Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997), Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993), ed. Xu Bing’s Background Story and his Oeuvre (Mandarin), co-edited with Yang Shin-Yi (Life Bookstore Publishing, 2016), ed. with Irving Goh of The Prepositional Senses of Jean-Luc Nancy, 2 Vols., diacritics (2014-16), and ed., Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (Michigan, 1997).

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