SAN DIEGO-TIJUANA MOLECULE
Micha Cárdenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade <http://transreal.org> is a
transgender artist, theorist and trouble maker. She will be a Lecturer
in the Visual Arts department at UCSD in Fall and Winter of 2009. She is
an Artist/Researcher in the Experimental Game Lab
<http://experimentalgamelab.net> at CRCA <http://crca.ucsd.edu> and
the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2 <http://calit2.net>. Her interests include the
interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at
Transreal.org <http://transreal.org>. Micha holds an MFA from the
University of California San Diego, an MA in Media and Communications
with distinction from the European Graduate School and a BS in
Computer Science from Florida International University. Micha recently
joined the Lui Velazquez space in Tijuana as a curator and collective
member. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, New York,
San Francisco, Montreal, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and many other places.
Micha has received grants from UCIRA, calit2 and Ars Virtua and her work
has been written about in publications including the LA Times, San Diego
Union Tribune and Rolling Stone Italy.
Christopher Head is a MFA candidate at the University of California, San
Diego in the Visual Arts department. He received his BFA in Digital Media
Arts from San Jose State University and the CADRE Lab for New Media. He
is a software developer, focusing on simulation, real-time rendering,
visualization, and interactive games.
Elle Mehrmand is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses
the body, electronics, video, photography, sound and installation within
her works. She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a
music collective who create dark, electronic, middle eastern, rhythmic
jazz rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, and received her
BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB.
Katherine Sweetman is a nationally and internationally exhibited artist in
the fields of both new media art and documentary video. Her current
work deals with online social networking sites and the issues surrounding
personal disclosure in the public realm of the World Wide Web. Her major
areas of research involve public disclosure of private information in both
online and offline environments. Katherine is currently working
independently on YouTube Relevance Projects and collaboratively with
Colectivo Lui Velazquez and The Infinity Lab. She has an M.F.A. from the
University of California, San Diego, a B.A. in Arts and Technology from
California State University, San Marcos. She is currently a part-time
instructor at Cal-State San Marcos and San DIego State University, and the
Director of the alternative art space, Lui Velazquez
<http://luivelazquez.com>, in Tijuana.
Felipe Zuñiga is a visual artist, independent art
promoter, and art facilitator. Zuñiga lives and works between Tijuana,
Mexico, and San Diego, U.S.A. He is part of the artist-run space, Lui
Velazquez Space, which organizes exhibitions, art residencies, and
cultural events in the city of Tijuana. He obtained an M.F.A. degree
in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego and a
bachelor in visual arts for the UNAM, in Mexico City.
TORONTO MOLECULE
Alessandra and Laura are co-conspirators who juggle their time between,
academic life, political activism and performance art. Their project in
collaboration with the Society of Molecules can be seen at:
http://interferencewait.wordpress.com/
Alessandra studied and worked with migrant communities in Berlin,
Germany, and is now completing her PhD on/through media activism at
OISE/University of Toronto. She is involved in various media, immigrant and
labour rights projects like Precarity Toronto
(http://precarityto.wordpress.com) and the pirate TV Insutv in Naples, Italy
(www.insutv.it). Her commitment to relay activist and academic work has
meanwhile snowballed into a series of experiments and collaborations
that threaten to turn into an avalanche, with the hopefully devastating
effects of cross-pollination, contamination and mutual support.
Laura is a solitary practitioner in the Political Science department at York
University, working on a PhD that traces an uncertain path following the
imagination (as concept) from Vico to Kant’s early writings, German
Romanticism, psychoanalysis and Castoriadis… She is passionate about
community, food and low-budget film.
OTTAWA MOLECULE
Dalie Giroux est professeure à l'École d'études politiques de l'Université
d'Ottawa depuis 2003. Ses recherches portent sur les différentes formes de
l'articulation entre le langage et le pouvoir. Elle travaille à partir de trois
réservoirs principaux : la pensée politique d'inspiration nietzschéenne,
l'anthropologie des sociétés occidentales et la pensée politique
autochtone contemporaine. Membre du comité de rédaction des
Cahiers de l'idiotie (cahiers-idiotie.org) et du comité d'organisation de
l'Observatoire des nouvelles pratiques symboliques - ONOUPS
(onoups.blogspot.com), elle collabore occasionnellement à la critique
littéraire dans le journal Le Devoir. Elle a récemment publié, en
collaboration avec R. Lemieux et P.-L. Chénier, Contr'hommage pour
Gilles Deleuze. Nouvelles lectures, nouvelles écritures (PUL, 2009).
Rebecca Lavoi is about to finish her m.a. thesis in Political thought at
University of Ottawa. Her thesis revolves around the thoughts of Gilles
Deleuze, Erin Manning, J. Rancière and Pierre Clastres from which she
addresses the ways in which conflict of space - as body, territory and
speech distribution - has to do with emancipation (equality in
contingency). She works with the notion of war machine (Deleuze) and
the carnival's figure. She is more generally interested in movement and
the articulation of our ways of thinking the body and the political. She is
joining the Humanities Doctoral Program (Interdisciplinary Studies in
Society and culture) at Concordia next September. Loves dance, food
and laughter.
Jean-Pierre Couture is Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University
of Ottawa where he co-founded the Observatoire des nouvelles pratiques
symboliques. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the political-aesthetical thought
of Peter Sloterdijk (UQAM, 2009). His works in the field of the history of ideas
are related to the field (Pierre Bourdieu) and network (Randall Collins)
theories. His former works and publications are concerned with Hannah
Arendt's political phenomenology.
AMSTERDAM MOLECULE
Sher Doruff received her BA in fine arts and worked as a
musician/composer in the US before immigrating to Europe in the mid90’s. She was head of the Sensing Presence and Research programmes at
Waag Society in Amsterdam from 1998-2007. She is a currently a research
fellow in the ARTI lectoraat and a teacher/mentor in the Masters of
Choreography programme of the Amsterdam School for the Arts and is
also Adjunct Faculty at SMARTlab/University of East London. Her doctoral
research explored collaborative, creative processes in networked
performance practice. This inquiry continues constructively as an ontology
of the diagrammatic – an interdisciplinary artistic research practice of
processual image/word/sound relations. She has published numerous
papers in academic and artistic contexts.
Rick Dolphijn is assistant professor of Humanities, Utrecht University, the
Netherlands. He has published in journals like Angelaki and Gastronomica.
He is the author of Foodscapes. His recent work consists of a series of
experiments in what he calls ‘aesthetic vitalism’.
NAPLES MOLECULE
Beatrice Ferrara is a PhD student of "Cultural and Postcolonial
Studies of the Angolphone World" at the Università degli Studi di
Napoli "L'Orientale" (Naples, IT). Her research poject focuses on
Afrofuturism and electronic music, moving between micropolitics, audio
virology, post-representational black urban music, affective topology
and the questions of cognitive labour.
Vito Campanelli is a new media theorist and teaches 'Theory and
Technics of Mass Communication" at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'.
He has written essays on media art and his contributes are regularly
published in international reviews, such as 'Neural'. He is a free-lance
curator and promoter of events in the field of digital culture and cofounder of the non profit association 'MAO - Media & Arts Office ONLUS'.
Tiziana Terranova lectures in the sociology of culture and communication
at the Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Culturali e Linguistici. She has a
long-standing interest in the micro-politics of computers and new media
that has materialized over the years in many publications, public talks,
political activities and university courses.
Michaela Quadraro is a PhD student in "Cultural and Postcolonial Studies
of the Anglophone World" at the University "L'Orientale" in Naples. Her
research project is on visual culture, new media, digital art and postrepresentation.
Vittorio Milone is an undergraduate student at the University of Naples
"L'Orientale". His main research interest is in the convergence/relationship
between art, science and technology. He has a fairly long working
experience as a system administrator and as a coordinator in international
(multimedia) cultural projects.
WEIMAR MOLECULE
João da Silva, born in Brazil, is a contemporary dancer and
choreographer. He works at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, NL,
where he teaches open-form composition and heads the Master of
Choreography Program Dance Unlimited. He has been a visiting artist and
lecturer at various venues and institutions in Europe, Israel and South
Korea. He is also a NLP master practitioner.
LONDON MOLECULE (THE FOLD)
M. Beatrice Fazi
I was born and raised in Italy and my background is in humanities and
philosophy. In London, I am a PhD candidate at the Centre for Cultural
Studies, Goldsmiths (University of London). My research is an investigation
on the poetics and praxis of interactive aesthetics through the concept of
"expression", as applied to computation and interaction. I have so far
worked in education, IT, cultural diplomacy, journalism and advertising.
b.fazi@me.com
Caroline Heron
Of Northern Irish extraction I am now resident in one of the five host
boroughs of the Olympic site in London. Since the completion of an MA in
Interactive Media: critical theory and practice, at Goldsmith's College, I
have been the assistant project co-ordinator for Mute Magazine
(www.metamute.org), a magazine and publishing house that explores the
nature of culture and politics since the birth of the internet.
heron.caroline@googlemail.com
Dr Luciana Parisi is the Convener of the Interactive Media MA at
Goldsmiths University of London. In 2004 she published Abstract Sex.
Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire, Continuum Press.
She is completing a monograph on soft architecture and the metaphysics
of
computational culture (MIT Press, forthcoming).
L.Parisi@gold.ac.uk
LONDON MOLECULE (DIAGRAMMING MOVEMENT)
Derek McCormack is cultural geographer working at the University of
Oxford. His
research interests lie in a vague and shifting zone between questions of
space, movement, and affect.
Thomas Jellis is a geography DPhil student at the University of Oxford. He is
interested in spaces of aesthetic experimentation.
Sarah Rubidge is a digital choreographer who specialises in the
dialogue between performance and New Media, particularly with
interactive technologies. Her collaborative works have been
exhibited nationally and internationally. Between 2000 and 2009
Sarah developed several installations and performances with her
collaborators, including Sensuous Geographies *(2003) with
composer Alistair MacDonald, *Fugitive Moments (2006) with
scientist Beau Lotto of University of London, global drifts
*(2006) for the Brisbane International Festival with Australian
interactive choreographer Hellen Sky, with a satellite site in
London in collaboration with sound artist Stan Wijnans, and
*Eris Eros (2007) at the Linbury Studios, Royal Opera House,
London, with choreographer Liz Lea.
A practitioner-scholar Sarah is Professor of Choreography and
New Media at the University of Chichester, UK. She writes
extensively about dance related issues, most recently on the
dialogue between digital choreography and the philosophical
issues that resonate with it. She has had several chapters
published in books on Performance and Technology. Many of her
academic writings are available on www.sensedigital.co.uk.
Gill Clarke is an Independent dance artist/ movement researcher. She
was a founder member of the Siobhan Davies Dance Company and has
performed and collaborated with many choreographers including
Rosemary Butcher, Rosemary Lee and Janet Smith.
Gill was Head of Performance Studies at Laban, London 2000-2006,
received a fellowship from the National Endowment for Science,
Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and is Co-director of Independent
Dance – an organisation supporting learning and exchange for
professional dance artists in London.
Gill’s practice focuses on mind/body integration, perception and mindful
attention within dance. and she leads master classes and workshops
internationally. She is currently involved in pedagogical research at HZT,
Berlin, through Tanzplan, Germany and contributing to debates around
dance education. Recent interest has led her to study in the social
sciences and she is visiting professor at Ulster University.
BERLIN MOLECULE
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, PhD, is an art historian, curator and artist
based in Berlin and Boston/Harvard University + Akadamie der bildenden
Künste. Khadija Z Carroll's interventions and appropriations, especially in
ethnographic museum collections, have been exhibited internationally
including the Venice Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Skuc Ljubljana, Institute of
Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Harvard Graduate School of Design,
Gallery Espace Delhi, and the Ecole des beaux-arts. Her work is published
in various books and journals, most recently as Epistemic Imagery:
Indigenous Art Theory in Colonial Australia; Small Mirrors to Large Empires:
Meta-museums in Contemporary Art; Curating Curiosity: a
phenomenology of colonial wonder in Frameworks, Artworks, Place;
Object to Project in Sculpture in the Museum; and Memosphere. Khadija is
the co-founder of www.nowlook.at.
MONTREAL MOLECULE (LACK OF INFORMATION)
Jonas Fritsch is currently a visiting researcher at Université de Montréal and
Concordia University affiliated with the Workshop on Radical Empiricism
(directed by Biran Massumi) and the SenseLab (directed by Erin Manning).
With an MA in interaction design including professional experience, he is
now a PhD student at Aarhus University working towards a fruitful,
multitudinal thinking together of affect theory and practical interaction
design projects at the Center for Digital Urban Living, Department of
Information and Media Studies.
Christoph Brunner is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary
Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, Montréal. His
interests concern philosophical approaches towards interactive
performance and ecologies of sound. He regards sound, architecture,
politics, and philosophy as techniques for thought as intervention. He is a
member of the SenseLab (directed by Erin Manning) in collaboration with
the Workshop on Radical Empiricism (directed by Brian Massumi).
Joel Mckim : http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/comm/faculty/mckim.html
Marie-Eve Bélanger est candidate au Doctorat en Science Politique à
l’Université d’Ottawa où elle prépare sa thèse provisoirement intitulée "De
l'Union Européenne à la Grande Europe: géopolitique de la souveraineté
dans l’espace européen". Après avoir complété ses études de premier
cycle à l'Institut d'Etudes politiques de Strasbourg, elle a poursuivi sa
maîtrise à l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes où elle a soutenu son
mémoire en 2006. Ses recherches sont axées sur la politique européenne
de l'élargissement, la notion de territoire et les questions de fondement et
de développement de l’ordre en Europe.
SYDNEY MOLECULE
Lone Bertelsen has a PhD in Sociology. Her work is trans-disciplinary and
she publishes on affect, politics and art, post-structuralist theory,
photography and visual culture. She is particularly interested in the social
and the micro-political. She is currently working on a monograph on
photo-based art and the production of subjectivity. She has taught in the
areas of embodiment and subjectivity studies; social, critical and cultural
theory; gender studies; media studies and art theory.
Gillian Fuller is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Technology, School of
English, Media and Performing Arts, UNSW, Australia. She is the author of
numerous papers and chapters on issues around bodies, politics and
architectures of mobility. She is co-author (with Ross Harley) of Aviopolis: A
Book about Airports, 2004. London: Blackdog Publications.
Anna Munster is a writer, artist and educator in the area of new media arts
and theory. In 2006 she published the book Materializing New Media:
Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Dartmouth College Press) and
writes for the journals CTheory, Fibreculture, Culture Machine, among
others, on networked culture and art, biomedia and bioart and
contemporary art and politics. She helped to found the online
journal Fibreculture and is actively involved in online list cultures and their
on and offline projects and events. She works collaboratively with Michele
Barker in the area of immersive and multi-channel audio-visual installation,
exploring the relations between visuality and neuroscience. She is an
associate professor at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South
Wales, Sydney Australia. Her current research investigates dynamic
media, particularly the relations between the technical aspects of
networks and network visualisations on the one hand, and emergent
forms of cultural and aesthetic experience on the other.
Andrew Murphie is at the School of English, Media and Performing Arts,
University of New South Wales, Australia. Publications include 'Differential
Life, Perception and the Nervous Elements: Whitehead, Bergson and Virno
on the Technics of Living' in Culture Machine, 'Deleuze, Guattari and
Neuroscience' in Peter Gaffney (ed.) Deleuze, Science and the Force of
the Virtual (forthcoming) and, with Lone Bertelsen, 'An Ethics of Everyday
Infinities and Powers: Félix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain' in Melissa
Gregg and Gregory Seigworth, Greg (eds.) The Affect Reader
(forthcoming). He very occasionally pretends to be an amateur VJ, as VJ
Comfy and he is editor of The Fibreculture Journal.
Mat Wall-Smith is a researcher and lecturer writing about ecologies of
thought, affect and technology. He is perhaps best described as an
experimentalist - not quite theorist, not quite artist, not quite coder, not
quite musician - but capable of employing each just enough for oddly
deformed hybrids to emerge. Mat teaches various
digital/new/interactive/network media theory and production at UNSW in
Sydney, Australia. He likes building and deploying crazy ed-tech and
collaborative machines that if nothing else keep people on their toes. He
still enjoys making media and noise when he can find the time to play.
MELBOURNE (EVENT PULSE 2)
Michael Hornblow is interested in the architectural and cinematic
potentials of the body, from the flesh-brain relation, to its expression in
space-time, through site-specificity and audience response, to the sociopolitical dimension. Mike’s PhD at the Spatial Information Architecture
Laboratory in Melbourne integrates Butoh dance training, Grotowski
physical theatre method and performance art, through a series of
furniture mash-ups for jamming the limits of the body with its constructed
environment. Mike also produces film, video and multimedia performance
projects, focusing on interdisciplinary practice, community participation
and capacity-building initiatives within multi-cultural and humanitarian
contexts. He recently shot a hip-hop video with local dancers and MCs in
a Johannesburg squatter settlement and is now curating a performance
program in an old ice factory for a festival in Malaysia.
www.michaelhornblow.blogspot.com
BOSTON MOLECULE
Kenneth Bailey
www.ds4si.org
FLOATING MOLECULE
Michael Goddard is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Salford.
His current research centres on East European cinema, visual culture and
popular culture, particularly in Poland from the 1960's to the present. He
has done substantial research into Deleuze's aesthetic and film theories.
Currently he is also writing a manuscript for publication on the cinema of
the Chilean-born film-maker Raúl Ruiz. Another strand of his research
concerns Italian post-autonomist political thought and media theory,
particularly the work of Antonio Negri and Franco Berardi (Bifo). In
addition to the above mentioned interests, he is currently pursuing
research into the fringes of popular music in the 70s and 80s, particularly
groups such as The Fall, Throbbing Gristle and Laibach.
http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/GODDARDM.jsp
MADRID
www.reverso.org
Jaime Del Val (Madrid 1974) is a transmedia artist of old a new
technologies of sound, image, space, body and text (painter and digital
artist, composer and pianist, performer and choreographer, virtual
architect); multidisciplinary activist (environmental, post-gay/post-queer);
philosopher and theorist of the body, director of REVERSO in which he
promotes diverse initiatives in the crossroads of the body, arts, technology,
critical theory and political action. His work in performance, dance and
technology, electroacoustics, video and virtual generative architecture as
well as in fields of critical theory has been extensively presented, awarded,
performed and exhibited in Europe and America.
REVERSO is a transdisciplinary independent initiative of research,
production, education, diffusion and activism in the crossroads of arts
practices, old and new technologies, critical theory and political action. It
started in 2000 with the publication of the first Journal of queer studies in
Spanish. Since 2001 REVERSO has developed and presented
performances and installations as well as critical theory papers in festivals,
conferences, exhibitions and other events in Europe and America. Since
2004 it has developed an intense activity in the fight against urban
speculation having achieved, amongst other things, the paralysation of the
Algarrobico Hotel in Almería and other initiatives of high political and social
relevance, through several of its related associations. The Workshop of the
Technologies of the Body is the education, production and diffusion
initiative of the project. The first REVERSO CENTRE will open in 2010 in a
village in the province of Salamanca. It is coordinated by Jaime del Val.