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Echo Park, around Ewing Street, folded in on itself. Everyday drones modulated by environmental sounds. Sonic time accumulated in durations.
Echolalia Azalee/Elle Mehrmand and Azdel Slade/Micha Cárdenas are currently collaborating on a series of performances that explore the relations between bodies and technology within mixed realities. Cárdenas is an artist/theorist and a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Mehrmand is a performance/new media artist and musician, and an MFA candidate at UCSD.
WebsiteMatt McGarvey is visiting lecturer for the Aesthetics and Politics master's program at California Institute of the Arts, and is finishing a Ph.D. in Critical Studies and Experimental Practices at UCSD. He is currently working on a book that deals with the construction of perception via technology and scientific discourse, and with connections between sensation, arousal and ambient environments.
WebsiteSheldon Brown is an artist and Professor in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD. The Scalable City has been developed by Sheldon Brown and his experimental game lab, located in the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD.
WebsiteJustin Armstrong is in the final stages of completing a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. His research interests include Situationism/psychogeography, visual anthropology, the intersection of fiction and ethnography, and the anthropology of space and place. He is at work on a book on the ghost towns of Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Wyoming.
WebsiteCarlin Wing makes art that pulls social and spatial histories out of ceilings, courts and carpet patterns. Her work claims elevators and parking lots as places of play and generally attends to spaces in need of reshaping. She has been a Visiting Lecturer at Vanderbilt University, Watkins College of Art, Design and Film and Harvard University. For the spring of 2010 she is organizing an evening of contemporary art interventions at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
WebsiteAmy Sara Carroll's research, teaching, and writing interests include Latin/o American contemporary cultural production, feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. Her first book of poetry and prints, SECESSION, is forthcoming from Hyperbole Books. She is an assistant professor of Latina/o Studies -- jointly appointed in English and American Culture -- at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
WebsiteC. Spencer Yeh is based in Cincinnati, OH. He is most recognized for his musical project Burning Star Core, as well as compositional, collaborative, and improvisational activities under his own name. He has exhibited his visual and multimedia works at national and international venues including the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the New Museum in New York, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and alt.gallery in Newcastle.
WebsiteDavid Shorter is a professor of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California Los Angeles. Shorter's interests include ritual studies, indigenous ontologies, non-literate writing and participatory species interrelations. His most recent book, _We Will Dance Our Truth_ (2009), describes his long-term fieldwork among the Yaqui Indians of northwest Mexico.
WebsiteAlan Calpe is a video artist living in Brooklyn, NY and Gainesville, FL. His work often involves mundane rituals animated into the fantastic, equating physical transformation to the psychic negotiations of queers, and resides somewhere between a Hollywood Technicolor romance and a dark alley illicit encounter.
WebsiteJanine Gordon is an international multimedia artist, writer, and rapper based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is primarily based in subcultures and the female gaze upon the masculine subject. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of SFMOMA and The Whitney Museum amongst other private and public collections.
WebsiteAlan Sondheim is a new media artist, writer, and theorist based in Brooklyn NY. His interests include aesthetics and productions of virtual environments and installations, mapping with motion capture and 3d laser scanners, Buddhist philosophy and its relation to avatars and online environments, and experimental choreography.
WebsiteChristina McPhee interprets the remote landscape in multimedia streams. She creates topologic site explorations in layered suites involving on-site photographs, video, drawing, and environmental sound. Forthcoming in 2009: "Tesserae of Venus," a science fiction multimedia series on carbon-saturated energy landscapes, opens at Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, in late October 2009; "Pharmakon LIbrary Folio 2 :" is in preparation for New York Art Book Fair at PS1, in 2009.
WebsiteMez Breeze [aka Netwurker] is a Reality Engineer who has helped shape synthetic environments for over two decades. She is also an established net artist and game theorist who practices _Poetic Game Interventions_ [the creative manipulation of game parameters in order to disrupt or comment on various aspects of augmented states].
WebsiteJoy Garnett is an artist based in New York. Her paintings, culled from news photographs and military documents she gathers from the Internet, examine the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics and culture. She is a 2004 recipient of a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman. Garnett is the Arts Editor at Cultural Politics, a scholarly journal focusing on media, politics and culture, and is represented by Winkleman Gallery, New York City.
WebsiteJordan Crandall is a media artist and theorist based in Los Angeles. He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. His current project is a multi-platform media work entitled Showing, which looks at ecologies of display and the construction of the self through stagings, arousals, extensions, and intimacies. He is the co-editor ofVersion.
Websiteparticle group is a collective consisting of Principal Investigators Ricardo Dominguez (an associate professor of Visual Arts at UCSD, affiliated with Calit2) and artist Diane Ludin, as well as Principal Researchers artist Nina Waisman (Interactive Sound Installation Design) and poet Dr. Amy Sara Carroll, with a number of others flowing in and out. The particle group focuses on nano-toxicology and their traveling interactive installation entitled Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market (pitmm.net) has been presented at ISEA (San Jose) 2006, The House of World Cultures, Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008), Oi Futuro, Brazil (2008), Gallery@CALIT2, UCSD (2008), and CAL NanoSystem Institute (2009).
WebsiteKim Cascone founded Silent Records in 1985 and has released more than 30 albums of electronic music, performing with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Scanner, John Tilbury, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros among others. Cascone worked on David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart as Assistant Music Editor. Cascone was one of the co-founders of the microsound list and has written for Computer Music Journal and Artbyte Magazine.
WebsiteEileen Myles is a poet and novelist. Currently she is a Professor of Literature at University of California, San Diego. Her most recent publication is Sorry, Tree (2007).
Websitelucky dragons is an ongoing collaboration facilitated by Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Projects focus on equal-power situations, translation, and our mystical-rational experience with technology. Current fantasies include a restructuring of intellectual property / art economy / educational systems and an open-source museum in Los Angeles's Elysian Park.
WebsiteAlphonso Lingis is an American philosopher, writer and translator, currently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Lingis's areas of specialization include phenomenology, existentialism, modern philosophy, and ethics. His most recent publication is The First Person Singular (2007).
WebsiteMichael Taussig is a cultural anthropologist and Professor at Columbia University. Taussig's work combines aspects of ethnography, story-telling, and social theory. His most recent publication is What Color Is the Sacred? (2009).
WebsiteJohn C. Welchman is Professor of Modern Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Welchman's work combines the roles of modernist art historian and contemporary critic with work in visual-cultural studies. His most recent publication is The Aesthetics of Risk (Ed, 2008).
WebsiteLesley Stern is a writer and Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Stern's work moves between a number of disciplinary locations, and spans both theory and production. She is the author of The Scorsese Connection (1995) and The Smoking Book (1999).
WebsiteMasao Miyoshi is currently at the Department of Literature, University of California at San Diego. Miyoshi has been and continues to be a controversial and prominent figure in Japanese studies and in the American academy in general. Some of his recent work include reflections on the humanities in an increasingly capitalist university: Ivory Tower in Escrow, (2000); and Turn to the Planet: Literature, Diversity, and Totality (2001).
WebsiteBenjamin H. Bratton is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and on the Cultural Studies faculty at SCI_Arc (the Southern California Institute of Architecture). Bratton's research, writing, and practical interests include contemporary social theory, the perils and potentials of pervasive computing, architectural theory and provocation, inverse brand theory, software studies, systems design and development, and the rhetorics of exceptional violence.
WebsiteKathleen Stewart teaches anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin and is the director of the Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies. Stewart's interests include cultural generativity, affect, ordinary life, public culture, political imaginaries, narrative, and ethnopoetics. Her most recent book is Ordinary Affects (2008).
WebsiteAllen Shelton, born 1955 Alabama. Associate professor of sociology. 5'10'' 181lbs, W33 L34 Levis 1947 501, small thick hands. Arrived in Buffalo, New York 1998 in a one ton Toyota pickup. Dreamworlds of Alabama, University of Minnesota Press 2007. His writing desk is made from wood salvaged from his grandfather's barn.
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