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From the monthly archives: February 2012
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 [...]
Continue →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 [...]
Continue →Today, a friend emailed me some “exciting new features” that were announced for Mac’s OSX Mountain Lion. One such feature reads: “Mountain Lion delivers strong unification between iOS and Mac. For starters, Apple unified and simplified the naming conventions of many of its features (iCal is now Calendar, iChat is now Messages), [...]
Continue →On Saturday, I’ll be speaking at the UNC – Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Art historian and curator Camila Maroja has invited me to speak on some of the Latin American influences that have shaped my Queer Technologies project. This is an excellent opportunity for me [...]
Continue →Recently, I had the pleasure of inviting Jaime Del Val to contribute a text to Version. The work, Mission Report of Cyborg DelVal: Chronicles of the Cetian System – year 3475 – day 687 – Document XXXZ6873984 High Command of the Ministry of Interplanetary Metahuman Politics [...]
Continue →The Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (CHAT) Festival is taking place at Duke University from February 6 – 9. On Tuesday, I will be speaking on the Physical Computing and Interactivity panel with the s-1: Speculative Sensation Lab. On Thursday February 9th, Pinar Yoldas and I will be giving [...]
Continue →As part of the transmediale festival, a collection of research has been published in a tabloid format based on the festival’s PhD workshop in November. The publication is titled World of the News: The world’s greatest peer-reviewed newspaper of in/compatible research, and I have a brief article entitled “On Queer Viralities.” Images [...]
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