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The Marxism and New Media Conference, hosted by the Literature Program at Duke University, begins tomorrow! I am a co-organizer for this event, and I’ll also be moderating a panel on Queerness with Micha Cardenas, Jacob Gaboury, Julie Levin, Russo, and Pinar Yoldas. [...]
I attended the first meeting of Human Resource‘s Feminist Seminar on Politics and Performance last Sunday, led by Jennifer Doyle. It was a wonderful experience with many great artists and thinkers. We began with a reading and discussion of Yvonne Rainer’s No Manifesto. If you’re in Los Angeles, consider [...]
Last Spring, I conducted an interview with Ricardo Dominguez on electronic civil disobedience, his recent FBI investigation, and what it means to do artivism within the university. The interview has been published on the Reclamations Journal‘s blog and will be featured in Issue 4 of the journal. Read the [...]
The papers and artworks presented at the Cyclonopedia Symposium at the New School in the Spring 2011 have been gathered together as a book, titled Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium, edited by Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, and Eugene Thacker and published by Punctum Books. The release date has been set for Winter / Spring [...]
While in Berlin, I had the chance to visit with the incredible Vaginal Davis. We dined together, and I also attended her fantastic film series at Arsenal called “Rising Stars, Falling Stars.”
You can read Vaginal’s blog here and find out more information about her film series
If you happen to be in Berlin next week, come join me and many other amazing artists and scholars for the in/compatible international phd workshop and conference, organised by Digital Aesthetics Research Centre/Centre for Digital Urban Living (DARC), Aarhus University, in partnership with the transmediale festival for art and digital culture, [...]
Digimag‘s October 2011 issue has published a review of Speculative, a group exhibition co-curated by myself and Chris O’Leary at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions! Many thanks to Mattia Casalegno and Andrea Cariello for working on this.
On October 22, please join me, Micha Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, and Patricia Clough for our second event of this Viral Fall at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD. I will chair our panel on Queer Viral Aesthetics: Control and Resistance. Come join us!
Queer Viral Aesthetics: Control and Resistance
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On September 20th, I will chair a panel on Queer Viralities: Resistant Practices in New Media Art and Philosophy with Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Istanbul. If you’re attending ISEA or in Istanbul, please come join us!
Queer Viralities: Resistant Practices in New Media [...]
Events
January 19 - 21 Duke University, Marxism and New Media Conference January 31 - February 5 transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, reSource sex & PhD research panels 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 Aesthetics Panel March 17 - 24 8th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, Mexico, The Politics of Fiction Workshop & Film / Video ProgramTags
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