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March, 2019: Refiguring the Future
Moderators: Sarah Watson and Lola Martinez
April, 2019: Between the Body, Memory, Screen and Culture
Moderator: Renate Ferro
May, 2019: Open
September, 2019: Stay Unfinished, Yours Sincerely
Moderator: ShuLea Cheang
February, 2018: Digital INTERFACING: listservs, blogs, and beyond
Moderator, Renate Ferro
March, 2018: Noise: Disorientation, Contamination, and (Non)Communication
Moderator; Junting Huang
April, 2018: New Media Documentary Practice
Moderator: Dale Hudson
May, 2018: Open Discussion
June, 2018: Rehearsal of a Network
Moderator: Shulea Cheang
July, 2018: Bodies and Voices
Moderator: Dan Lichtman
September, 2018: Untitled
Moderator: Byron Rich
October, 2018: The Mess We are In
Moderator: Tarsh Bates
November, 2018: Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival
Moderator; Tim Murray
February, 2017: Between Biology and Art
Moderator: Renate Ferro
March, 2017: The Global Trump Effect
Moderator: Alan Sondheim
April, 2017: More on the Global Trump Effect
Moderator: Alan Sondheim
May, 2017: Robot Poetics, Ephemera, and Other Concerns
Moderator: Margaret Rhee
June, 2017: Fake News in a Global Climate
Moderators: Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
October, 2017: Radical Aesthetics of Multispecies Worlding, EcoArt and Solidarity in a more than human Capitalocene
Moderator: Marguerite Haughwort
November, 2017: On Contamination
Moderator: Renate Ferro
January, 2016: Open
February, 2016 Across Borders and Networks
Mocerator: Anna Valdes
March, 2016: Food/Tech/Art
Moderator: Renate Ferro
April, 2016: Liquid Blackness
Moderator: Alessandra Raengo
May, 2016: Social Practice Social Reproduction
Moderator: Kyle McKinley
June, 2016: Bookshelf
Moderator: Renate Ferro
July, 2016: Feminist Data Visualization
Moderator: Christina McPhee
September, 2016: Post Internet Art: On Selfies and Feminism
Moderator: Simon Biggs
November, 2016: Overcoming Technique: Multi-Media, Dialectics, or Synthesis
Moderator: Murat Nemet-Nejat
February, 2015: New Year/ New Tools and Technologies
Moderator, Renate Ferro
March, 2015: “Engineering the University - Technology, Values, and Labor in Research Institutions”
Moderator, Kevin Hamilton
April, 2015: Digital Media and the Interstices of Identity
Moderator: Soraya Murray
May, 2015: Bordom: Labor, Use and Time
Moderator: Renate Ferro
June, 2015: Plant Art and New Media
Moderators: Patarick Keilty and Selmin Kara
July, 2015: Inter-subjectivity: New Media, Aesthetics, Networks, Updended Cartographies
Moderators: Ileana Selejan and Calin Man
September, 2015: Video: Behind and Beyond
Moderator: Tim Murray
October, 2015: Designing Compulsion
Moderator: Patrick Keilty
November, 2015: Transnational Environments and Locative Places
Moderator: Dale Hudson
January, 2014, “Convergence: Expanding Time-based Media”
Moderator, Patrick Lichty
February, 2014: HYBRID BOOKWORK: Experimental eBooks, Post-Digital Publishing
Moderator, Michael Dieter
March, 2014: The Playsthetics of Experimental Digital Games
Moderator, Sandra Danilovic
April, 2014: Critical Making in International Networks
Moderators: Renate Ferro and Timothy Murray
May 2014: In flux: New Media Theory in 2014
Moderator: Renate Ferro
June, 2014: New Sonic Paths: Sound Studies Expanded
Moderators: Renate Ferro and Timothy Murray
July, 2014: Virtual Embodiment: Some Thoughts on the Resonances of the Virtual in 2014
Moderators: Susan Kozel and Simon Biggs
September, 2014: Design That Matters
Guest Moderator: Adam Nocek
October, 2014: Digital Objects
Guest Moderators: Quinn Dupont, Anaïs Nony, and Ashley Scarlett
November, 2014: ISIS, Absolute Terror, Performance
Guest Moderators: Alan Sondheim and Johannes Birringer
December, 2014: Social Media / Social Justice
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
For a detailed transcript of monthly discussions between 2002 and the present please visit our archive hosted by the University of New South Wales. Link is here.
January, 2013, “Research in Practice”
Moderator, Simon Biggs
February 2013, “Art, Engineering, and Politics: In Memoriam, Beatriz da Costa”
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
March 2013, "Videogames and Art: Incite/Insight"
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Claudia Pederson
May 2013, “Collaboration: Art Practice, Theory, Activism”
Moderators, Renate Ferro, Ana Valdes, Tim Murray
June, 2013, “An Archival Event: Who is -empyre?”
Moderators, Renate Ferro, Simon Biggs, Timothy Murray, and Patrick Lichty
July, 2013, “Resistance Is Futile:ISEA, Sydney, 2013”
Moderator, Simon Biggs
September, 2013, “BioArt: Materials, Practices, Politics”
Guest Moderator, A.J. Nocek
October 2013 “Convergence: expanding time-base media”
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
November, 2013, “Documenting Digital Artivism*
Guest Moderators, Selmin Kara, Patrick Keilty, and Camilla Møhring Reestorff
December, 2013, "Call and Response"
Guest Moderator, Irina Contreras
January, 2012, “OSW: Open Source Writing in the Network”
Moderator, Simon Biggs
February, 2012, "in/compatible research (remake)"
Moderator, Gabriel Menotti
March, 2012, "Urban Resilience"
Guest Moderator, Anna Valdés
April, 2012, “Rethinking Curatorial Options, Globally”
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
May, 2012, “Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work,”
Guest Moderator, Anne Balsamo
June, 2012, “Queer Media Art and Theory”
Guest Moderators, Zach Blas (US) and Micha Cárdenas
July, 2012, “Screens”
Moderator, Simon Biggs
September, 2012, “The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Machines”
Moderator, Patrick Lichty
October, 2012, “Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual”
Guest Moderators, Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin
November, 2012, “Risk: From Culture to Practice”
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
January, 2011, Contesting the Netopticon”
Moderator, Simon Biggs
February, 2011, “New Media and the Middle East”
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
March, 2011, “How Does a Field Become Visible, When?
Guest Moderator, Christina McPhee
April, 2011, “Re-emergence of the Augment”
Moderator, Patrick Lichty
May, 2011, “Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures”
Moderator, Renate Ferro
June, 2011, "Biennales Plus and Minus: Global Interfaces / Digital Environments / Contemporary Arts"
Moderator, Tim Murray
July, 2011, “Reclaiming Creativity as Agent of Change”
Moderator, Simon Biggs
September 2011, “Zones of Contact: -empyre-Istanbul”
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
October, 2011, "E/motion frequency deceleration"
Guest Moderator, Johannes Birringer
November, 2011, “Art Funding and Politics”
Guest Moderators, Helene Black and Yiannis Colakides
December, 2011, “Glitched, Cracked, and Dirty Media”
Moderator, Patrick Lichty
February, 2010, “Theorizing Animation: Content and Context”
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
March, 2010, “The Prototype Perspective”
Moderator, Gabriel Menotti
April, 2010, “Tactical Media, Research, and the University”
Moderator, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
May 2010 “Process As Paradigm”
Guest Moderator, Lucas Evers
June 2010, “Publishing in Convergence”
Moderators, Michael Deiter, Morgan Currie, and John Haltiwanger
July 2010, “Creativity as a Social Ontology”
Moderator, Simon Biggs
September, 2010, "Archiving New Media Art: Ephemerality and/or Sustainability"
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
October, 2010, “Contextualizing Making Sense”
Moderators, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
November, 2010, “Producing Exhibiting and Curating New Media Arts in China”
Guest Moderator, Melinda Rackham
December, 2010, “Gaming Subcultures”
Moderator, Gabriel Menotti
Archives from 2002 to 2010 can be accessed here http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/