Fwd: November on -empyre- Virtual Construction

Oct. 28, 2002

Type: discussion

>From: Christina McPhee <[email protected]>
>
>-empyre- takes pleasure in introducing our next guests and theme–
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>November 2002 - Virtual Construction
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>
>Please join us for a wide ranging discussion on the possibilities of
>virtual
>construction as viral and pandemic with Joseph Nechvatal, electronic media
>painter/philosopher; and, later in the month, as identity and network with
>Gregory Little, an electronic media artist whose art engages issues of
>avatar and immersion.
>
>Transmedia artist and philospher Joseph Nechvatal engages "viractuality"
>(occasions where the virtual and the actual merge), and tests the grounds
>for a technological and erotic aesthetic of virtuality. Electronic media
>artist, writer and editor Gregory Little explores constructions of
>identity
>in networked virtual environments as an artistic medium, while focusing on
>issues related to consensual identity, avatars (avatara), being inside-out,
>abjection, hierarchies and the "Body w/o Organs", and the post-human.
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>
>Viractualism with Joseph Nechvatal November 1-15
&
Avatar Manifesos with Gregory Little November 15 -30
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>
>join us at –empyre forum– <http://www.subtle.net/empyre>
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>—> Dr. Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual
>information and computer-robotics since 1986. Dr. Nechvatal earned his
>Ph.D.
>in the philosophy of art and new technology with The Centre for Advanced
>Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) . He served as Parisian editor for
>rhizome between 1996-2001 and now writes regularly for The THING , NY ARTS
>and Zing. He presently teaches Theories of Virtual Reality at the School of
>Visual Arts in New York City, and will discuss Viractualism - the merging
>of
>the computed (the virtual) with the uncomputed corporeal (the actual):
>hence
>the viractual.
> <http://www.nechvatal.net>
><http://www.eyewithwings.net/nechvatal/ideals.htm>
>
>
>—> Gregory Little is an electronic media artist working with
>philosophical
>and theoretical issues related to the technologies of immersive virtual
>reality, netart, and avatars; specifically with respect to issues of
>identity, embodiment, and human sentience. He is currently Visiting
>Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Bowling Green State University, USA;
>and an associate editor for Intelligent Agent.
>
> > > Avatar Manifesto: http://art.bgsu.edu/~glittle/ava_text_1.html
> > > Projects: http://art.bgsu.edu/~glittle/menu_1.html
> > > Presence and the AE: http://art.bgsu.edu/~glittle/presence/index.html
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>
>
>
>–
>Christina McPhee
><http://www.christinamcphee.net>
><www.naxsmash.net>

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