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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 ridiculous, [...]
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), paring [...]
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 to show [...]
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 (HCMIMEP) Affective Intelligence [...]
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 artist talks [...]
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 from [...]
Continue →I’m leaving for Berlin tomorrow for the 2012 transmediale festival, whose theme is in/compatible. I’ll be giving a talk on my Fag Face / Facial Weaponization Suite project-in-development at the resource methods panel on Tuesday, February 1, beginning at 1030am. I’ll also be giving a general artist talk on Queer Technologies [...]
Continue →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. [...]
Continue →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 [...]
Continue →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 [...]
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