[Reader-list] April 2007 on -empyre- : TechnoPanic: Terrors and Technologies

[Christina McPhee]

April 2007  on -empyre- soft-skinned space: TechnoPanic: Terrors and  
Technologies

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with Horit Herman-Peled (IS), Brooke Singer (US), Paul Vanouse (US),  
and Sean Cubit (AU)

moderated by Tim Murray (US) and Renate Ferro (US)



  From surveillance and mobile technologies to fears and public  
panic, the ambivalent attraction of technologies of terror shifts  
registers between post-cold war and post 9-11sensibilities, whether  
from international or cross-generational zones of engagement.  We  
will discuss how panic, paranoia, critical resistance to, and  
appropriation of technologies of terror are mediated by the threat  
and fear of violence in the interlinked networks of mobile media,  
domestic space, and the public sphere.


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Guest biographies:

-------------------------------------------------------->Horit Herman- 
Peled (IS) is a media artist, theorist, and feminist activist in Tel  
Aviv, who teaches art and digital culture at the Art Institute,  
Oranim College, Israel. http://www.horit.com/

-------------------------------------------------------->Brook Singer  
US) is a Brooklyn-based digital media artist and arts organizer who  
lives in Brooklyn. A member of Preemptive Media, her most recent  
collaborations, both as an artist and curator, utilize wireless (Wi- 
Fi, mobile phone cameras, RFID) as tools for initiating discussion  
and positive system failures.  She is Assistant Professor of New  
Media at SUNY Purchase. http://www.bsing.net/blog/

------------------------------------------------------->Paul Vanouse  
(US) makes data collection devices that include polling and  
categorization (for interactive cinema), genetic experiments that  
undermine scientific constructions of identity, and temporary  
organizations that performatively critique institutionalization and  
corporatization.  He teaches in the Art Dept. at the University of  
Buffalo (SUNY).

-------------------------------------------------------->Sean Cubitt  
(AU) teaches media and communications at the University of Melbourne.  
Among his numerous books on cinema and new media are EcoMedia, The  
Cinema Effect, and Digital Aesthetics. Sean has curated numerous  
exhibitions and is Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Book Series for  
MIT Press.   http://www.mediacomm.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/staff/sean/ 
seanwriting/index.html


moderators:

Renate Ferro (US) conceptual artist,  visiting Assistant Professor of  
Art,  Cornell University, and Timothy Murray (US), curator, the Rose  
Golden Archive of New Media Art and
Acting Director of  the Society for the Humanities, Cornell  
University.  Their most recent collaboration has involved Renate's  
installation "Panic Hits Home" for the  The Finger Lakes  
Environmental Film Festival in Marchl 2007.  (FLEFF) is a one-week  
multimedia inter-arts extravaganza that reboots the environment and  
sustainability into a larger global conversation, embracing issues  
ranging from labor, war, health, disease, music, intellectual  
property, fine art, software, remix culture, economics, archives,  
AIDS, women’s rights, and human rights. This year’s festival will  
focus on new content streams: Maps and Memes, Metropoli, Panic  
Attacks, and Soundscaping.  http://fleff2007.blogspot.com



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