<nettime-ann> January 2007 on -empyre- soft-skinned space: "What is to be Done?" (Education)

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

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January 2007 on -empyre- soft-skinned space:  "What is to be  
Done?" (Education)


with

Ricardo Rosas (BR), Melinda Rackham (AU), Sharon Daniel (US), Chris  
Molinski (US), Andrea Sick (DE),  Claudia Reiche (DE), Olivier Dyens  
(CA), Deborah Kelly (AU), Illyana Nedkova (BG/SCT), Christiane  
Robbins (US), and the collective Øjeblikket (DK). Moderator:  
Christina McPhee (US)

In collaboration with the documenta 12 magazine project, -empyre-  
soft-skinned space opens the third of three conversations on the  
leitmotives of the upcoming documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany next  
summer (http://www.documenta12.de/leitmotive.html?&L=1)

 documenta 12 magazine project  has invited -empyre- to participate  
in this world-wide discussion, as one of around eighty publications  
in the project.


-empyre- soft-skinned space is an international networked community  
list.serv based in Sydney, Australia in cooperation with the College  
of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.  Special thanks to  
Melinda Rackham for continuing to support our html pages at http:// 
www.subtle.net/empyre until we make the switch to the COFA server  
early this coming year.



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http://www.subtle.net/empyre



Here you can also download printable,  edited linear text pdfs of the  
previous two documenta 12 magazine project/-empyre- discussions, "Is  
Modernity our Antiquity? (March 2006) and
 "What is Bare Life?" (July 2006).

And,  visit the project hypertext archives:

(new)   https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2007-January/
https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-July/
https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-March/



This month, please join us  as we generate a dynamic, reader-driven  
hypertext around the question,  "What is to be Done? (Education):





" Artists educate themselves by working through form and subject  
matter; audiences educate themselves by experiencing things  
aesthetically. How to mediate the particular content or shape of  
those things without sacrificing their particularity is one of the  
great challenges of an exhibition like documenta. But there is more  
to it than that. The global complex of cultural translation that  
seems to be somehow embedded in art and its mediation sets the stage  
for a potentially all-inclusive public debate (Bildung, the German  
term for education, also means “generation” or “constitution,” as  
when one speaks of generating or constituting a public sphere).  
Today, education seems to offer one viable alternative to the devil  
(didacticism, academia) and the deep blue sea (commodity  
fetishism)."  --Roger Beurgel, artistic director, documenta 12





Please join our guests beginning January 6 for a month's reflection  
and debate surrounding the provocations in the third leitmotif of  
documenta 12.


http://www.subtle.net/empyre


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>Ricardo Rosas (BR) editor of the Rizoma e-magazine and a former  
member of the Midiatatica.org network. Rosas helped organize the  
Mídia Tática
Brasil 2003  and the Digitofagia 2004 festivals in São Paulo, both of  
them aimed at discussing the tactical media scene, free software, and  
the creation of collaborative projects in art and activism involving
new media. Rosas was the Net Art curator of the Prog: Me festival, in  
Rio de Janeiro (2005); and a lecturer at the fourth edition of the  
Next 5 Minutes festival, in Amsterdam (2003), the first international
event dedicated to the mapping of tactical media. He also  
participated in the Super Demo Digital festival in Rio de Janeiro  
(2004); in the Networks, Arts, a Collaboration conference at the  
State University of New York, in Buffalo (2004); and in the 15th  
Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival. Rizoma, his edited  
website on arts and activism is currently taking part on the  
Documenta project of publications for the Documenta 2007. http:// 
www.rizoma.net/hp10.htm

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>Melinda Rackham (AU) Dr Rackham is the Executive Director of the  
Australian Network for  Art and Technology (ANAT), Australia’s peak  
body for artists working with science and technology, creating  
opportunities for innovation, research and development both locally  
and globally.  As an artist, writer and curator she worked with  
Networked Media for over a decade in web, 3d multi-user, game and  
mobile environments. Her award  winning artworks are widely shown and  
her writing appears in diverse  art and theory publications.  Melinda  
founded -empyre- media arts forum in 2002 and in 2003-4 was curator  
of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image  
(ACMI), Melbourne. http://www.anat.org.au/home.htm


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>Sharon Daniel (US) An Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media  
at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Sharon teaches classes  
in digital media theory and practice. Her research involves  
collaborations with communities that focus on the use and development  
of information and communications technologies for social inclusion.  
Her role as an artist is that of "context provider," - working with  
communities, collecting their stories, soliciting their opinions, and  
building online archives to make this data available across social,  
cultural and economic boundaries. http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/

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>Chris Molinski  (US) director of The Art Gallery of Knoxville, a   
community space devoted to discussions of new and emerging art in  
Knoxville, Tennessee.   Recent exhibitions have involved  
collaborations with  the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Max Neuhaus, and  
the exhibition "Distribution Religion" with Critical Artware, People  
Powered, and Temporary Services. http:// 
www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com/

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>Andrea Sick (DE) Dr Sick has the management and artistic  
responsibility for the cultural lab Frauen.Kultur.Laboratorium  
thealit since 1993 (co-operation with thealit since 1990).  She is  
research assistant at the University of Arts Bremen (Atelier für  
Zeitmedien) and responsible for the creation and concept of a network  
between art and science in  new media technologies.  Her research  
explores relations between technological media and cultural  
production, transitions between biological and information- 
technological discourses, interfaces of scientific and cultural  
activities; and gender studies. http://thealit.de

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Claudia Reiche (DE)  is a media theorist, artist, and curator. Her  
work focuses on (cyber)feminist approaches to questions of how man/ 
machine relations are designed with words and images.  She is a   
member of  thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, Bremen ( http:// 
www.thealit.de ) and of the first international cyberfeminist  
alliance 'old boys network' http://www.obn.org.  She has been  
director of the European project 'Cyberfeminism.Lab' (Culture 2000  
programme of the European Union). Currently she is curating with  
Helene von Oldenburg The Mars Patent, the first exhibition site on  
Mars http://mars-patent.org, and with Andrea Sick, do not exist,  
europe, women, digital medium, a transnational  European conference  
and exhibition lab , http://thealit.de/lab/donotexist/program.htm.   
http://www.claudia-reiche.net

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->Ollivier Dyens (CA) is Chair of the Department of French at  
Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is the founder and  
webmaster of  Metal and Flesh (metalandflesh.com) 1998-2003, as well  
as Continent  X (continentx.com). He is also the author of Metal and  
Flesh, The  Evolution of Man, Technology Takes Over, published by MIT  
Press  Ollivier Dyens has lectured in Europe, the United States and   
Canada. His digital artwork has been exhibited in Brasil, Canada,   
Venezuela, Germany, Argentina and the United States.  http:// 
www.continentx.com/

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---->Deborah Kelly (AU) has been making socially engaged artwork  
since 1983. Collaborative projects include the ongoing
artists gang boat-people.org, and the prize-winning public artwork  
series, “Hey, hetero!”, with Tina Fiveash. She has given lectures and  
workshops around Australia and in Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco,  
Los Angeles and Ottawa. She was invited by Martha Rosler to a  
political artists' residency in 2002, and produced a large  
collaborative artwork with that crew for Utopia Station in the 2003  
Venice Biennale. Her current project, Beware of the God, was  
commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. It is a cross- 
media artwork considering the rise of religiosity in public life;  
documented and extended at www.bewareofthegod.com More work can be  
seen at: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/yours/artists/kelly.htm   http:// 
abc.net.au/arts/visual/stories/venice/hh_01.htm
http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=1947


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-->Iliyana Nedkova (BG/SCT) Iliyana is a Sofia-born Edinburgh-based  
curator, producer and critic of contemporary art and design.  
Currently, Creative Director New Media at Horsecross, Perth where she  
is responsible for curating the Threshold artspace, Scotland's first  
dedicated gallery for digital public art. A founding Co-Director of  
ARC: Art Research Communication (with Chris Byrne), a curatorial  
practice working nationally and internationally with artists,  
exhibitions, art fairs, editions and critical context. Latest ARC  
Projects include the international symposium of curating new media  
Art Place Technology, Liverpool and a series of limited editions by  
artists Susan Collins, Alla Georgieva, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Ivan Moudov  
and Dan Perjovschi.

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>Christiane Robbins (US) is a visual/media artist and scholar  
working in video, digital imaging,  database aesthetics, and locative/ 
spatial studies.
 Her work is found in permanent collections including the Stedlijck  
Museum, Amsterdam, Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Kitchen, NY, the  
Banff Centre for the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,  
and The Getty Museum. Her films have won international awards  
including best in category at the San Francisco International Film  
Festival.  She is  a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and  
Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, Los  
Angeles.  She was the Executive Producer of the AIM Festival, a co- 
organizer of Race in Digital Space (MIT/USC's multi-year project  
including conferences and exhibition. ) and a co-Director of the On- 
Line Against Aids Project, one of the first on-line global cultural  
events.


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>Øjeblikket (DK) (editorial collective: Karin Hindsbo, Mikkel Bolt,  
and Kristina Ask) is a magazine based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded  
in 1993, it is dedicated to the theory and critique of contemporary  
art.  Throughout its existence the journal has tried to address  
issues of significance to the present situation, thereby hoping to  
contribute to the creation of a critical public sphere. Each issue of  
Øjeblikket features a theme that is approached from different angles  
- philosophical, political, and feminist; recent themes have been  
propaganda, exclusion, and drawing.  Kristina Ask, visual artist is  
engaged in tv-tv, UKK (Association of Young Artworkers in Denmark)  
and the project Free Floating Faculty. Mikkel Bolt is Assistant  
professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen  
University, and  author of The Last Avantgarde: Situationistisk  
Internationale beyond Art and Politics (2004).Karin Hindsbo, art  
historian is director of Den Frie, Contemporary Art Gallery, and  
chairman of UKK (Association of Young Artworkers in Denmark).   
Øjeblikket  is a  participating magazine in  the documenta 12  
magazine project. http://www.ojeblikket.net



moderator


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---->Christina McPhee (US) is an independent media and visual artist,  
theorist, and co-moderator at Sydney-based  -empyre- soft-skinned  
space ( a networked community focussed on critical thinking on new  
media arts and culture internationally, founded by Melinda Rackham in  
2002).   Her most recent exhibition in video, drawing and digital  
photomontage, "La Conchita mon amour" premiered at Sara Tecchia, New  
York (Chelsea) in October-November 2006 (http://saratecchia.com/ 
gallery/past/la_conchita/pressrelease.php)   Wunderkabinet, an  
electronic opera by Pamela Z in collaboration with Matt Brubeck  and  
Christina McPhee, premiered in LA at Cal Arts' REDCAT Theatre, Walt  
Disney Hall, in October 2006 (http://www.pamelaz.com/ 
wunderkabinet.html)  Her multimedia project Carrizo Diaries, on  
seismic memory, showed recently in Sweden (Bildmuseet Umea), and  
Cartes Center for Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland http:// 
www.cartes-art.fi/mcphee/   Recent writing appears in Neural (http:// 
neural.it/english), Virose (http://virose.pt),  drunkenboat (http:// 
www.drunkenboat.com/db7/index.html and
 Ctheory ( http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=485 )    http:// 
christinamcphee.net, http://strikeslip.tv



-cm





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