From shulea@waag.org Tue Sep 1 15:08:01 1998 Received: from [194.134.18.57] (A47.waag.org [194.134.18.57]) by A01.waag.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA06129; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:07:58 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:07:58 +0200 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: tabody@waag.org From: shu lea cheang Subject: an introduction to start off dialogue Cc: "Oldenziel, Ruth" <101340.1021@compuserve.com>, Jennifer Gonzalez september 1st- I think we sign on almost everyone- I want to thank Lisa and Matthew for pulling everyone together. to start off.. here at DeWaag, we're working toward a few interface that would include live webcam and audio dialogue for joint operation- New York/Amsterdam, also a textual intervention working with your writings (in quotes)(which would also be made into sugar coated theory pills for the forum). would also like to discuss some theatrical performance elements in this surgical discourse, like wearing white coats?? maybe Susan and Sandy would want to bring in some performance??? but first, I am attached here some bio that we gather as an introduction for everyone..and maybe we can start off by focusing on Lisa's statement for the forum direction. please direct all your e-mail to tabody@waag.org for panel discussion much thanks shu lea (a sort of bio -please modify your own and send it back to the list.) (this will serve as program notes for the day and on the web) at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo: Lisa Cartwright teaches media, science and technology studies at the University of Rochester in New York. She is the author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture (Minnesota, 1995) and coeditor with Paula A Treichler and Contance Penley of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science (NYU, 1998). Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) at UT Austin where she studies issues related to interface, interaction, and desire. author of numerous publications including "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" and "The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age",1995. Jennifer A. Gonzalez: Assistant Professor, Art History Department, UC Santa Cruz Envisioning Cyborg Bodies: Notes from current research, Cyborg Handbook.1995; "Archeological Devotion: Amalia Mesa-Bains, Renee Stout and Jenni Lukac," in Gender and Race Politics in Visual Culture, 1998. Dr. Vernon Rosario, M.D. UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute M.D. 1995 Harvard Medical School-MIT,Health Sciences and Technology Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism. Co-editor with Paula Bennett. New York: Routledge, 1995. Science and Homosexualities. Editor. New York: Routledge, 1997. The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Jennifer Terry Ohio State University Editor/Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture; Processed Lives:gender and technology in everyday life at De Waag, Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam : Jose van Dijk Associate Professor of Literature, cultural studies/science program at the University of Limburg, Maastricht. research on popularization of science and technology through media and literature, gender and technology, and new media developments. Author/Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies Ruth Oldenziel director, research program on comparative gender and multicultural studies at the University of Amsterdam. works on the gender, technology, and representation from a historical perspective. Part of *Poste-Restante : Feminist message to Post-modernism* which took Haraway's work as its point of departure to talk about whether or not the new emergent technologies like internet and biotechnologies could be a gender bender or even help us to get past gender etc. Susan Stryker is a MTF transsexual who earned a Ph. D. in US History at the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. She is an authority on transgender history and co-author of Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle Books, 1996). She recently edited a collection of critical essays, The Transgender Issue, for Duke University Press (forthcoming, March, 1998), Her book Ecstatic Passages: A Postmodern Transsexual Memoir, is under contract to Oxford University Press. From shulea@waag.org Tue Sep 1 19:17:53 1998 Received: from rgate.ricochet.net (rgate1.ricochet.net [204.179.143.6]) by A01.waag.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09891 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 19:17:52 +0200 Received: from 204.254.18.36 (mg-20425418-36.ricochet.net [204.254.18.36]) by rgate.ricochet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA14359; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:17:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35EBE5D6.250D@ricochet.net> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 10:17:26 -0200 From: Susan Stryker Reply-To: mulebaby@ricochet.net, [also@ricochet.net, mulebabyxx@aol.com] X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; U; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shu lea cheang CC: tabody@waag.org, "Oldenziel, Ruth" <101340.1021@compuserve.com>, Jennifer Gonzalez Subject: Re: an introduction to start off dialogue References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everybody! Just a brief addendum to my bio--I currently hold a Social Science Research Council/Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Human Sexuality Studies, and am affiliated with the History Department at Stanford University. This looks like a great group of people to chat with! Susan Stryker