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My new project Facial Weaponization Suite is up for a Rhizome Commission. If you’re a Rhizome member, please consider voting for this work! I’ll give you a mask when it is complete!
Facial Weaponization Suite Facial Weaponization Suite provides sets of masks and other cloaking devices for public [...]
I am co-organizing the first Hemispheric Institute Convergence at Duke this fall on The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation. The call for participation is now up!
Convergence 2012: The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation November 9th, 10th, and 11th 2012
Duke University Call For Participation
The year 2011 marked an explosion of radical [...]
The wonderful Mark Marino has just published a critical study of creative work done by Julie Levin Russo and myself, using transCoder, the queer programming anti-language I developed.
The article, “Of Sex, Cylons, and Worms: A Critical Code Study of Heteronormativity” is in the [...]
Tonight, at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, there will be a book launch for The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities by Micha Cárdenas. I had the pleasure of editing this book and encourage you all to attend!
The Transreal Book Party [...]
Q is a list for queer media art, theory, praxis, discussion, started by myself and Micha Cárdenas. Anyone who is interested is welcome. We have grand hopes for future events and publications relating to the list, which we will begin discussing more formally in May. Micha and I see a need for more [...]
An audio recording of my panel with Micha Cárdenas and Pinar Yoldas at South by Southwest Interactive is now available!
On March 9th, Micha Cárdenas, Pinar Yoldas, and myself will give artist talks on the Queer Viral Practices in New Media Art and Theory panel at South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Please come join us if you’ll be around!
My dear friend and collaborator Micha Cárdenas has just released her newest book through Atropos Press, The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities. The book is an elegant, exciting, and transgressive mix of art practice and theoretical inquiry, featuring many amazing artist-theorists like Elle Mehrmand, Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez, [...]
The Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium book has been published! Go here to purchase a print copy or download a free pdf! My essay, “Queerness, Openness,” focuses on the queer undercurrents in Cyclonopedia and what this cylconic queerness poses to the futures of queer theory.
“Anything can happen for some weird reason; yet [...]
On Thursday, I’ll be at the College Art Association in Los Angeles, giving an artist talk on the Momentum: Women / Art / Technology panel with Ferris Olin, Muriel Magenta, Jennifer Hall, Aileen June Wang, Lynn Hershman, Victoria Vesna, and Judith K. Brodsky. So many wonderful people! If you’re in LA and want to come (but didn’t pay the [...]
Events
January 31 - February 5 transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, reSource sex, Commercialising Eros panel & reSource methods, research practices panel February 14 - 23 STUK arts centre, Leuven, Belgium, The Social Contract, Artefact Festival February 17 - 18 UNC - Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, Activism and Interventions in Latin American Visual Arts February 22 - 25 College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, Momentum: Women/Art/Technology Panel March 9 - 13 South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Austin, Texas, Queer Viral Practices Panel June 28 - July 1 Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI, Science of the Oppressed as Artivism PanelTags
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- Chris O'Leary
- Claudia Salamanca
- Continental Drift
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- Elle Mehrmand
- Jacob Gaboury
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- Jordan Crandall
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