CAA Talks – Scalar and New Directions in Queer Theory and Art

Posted on February 10, 2013 by michamaya

I’ll be a busy bee at the College Art Association next week in New York. I’m doing a workshop on scalar at THATcamp as well as one at the official CAA conference. I’m also presenting on a panel with a handful of other amazing artists. The queer theory/art panel is open to the public, and is sponsored by the New Media Caucus. See you there!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM

New Media Caucus
Computation and the Nonhuman: New Directions in Queer Theory and Art
New York Hilton, Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Chair: Micha Maya Cárdenas, University of Southern California

Fag Faces and the Facial Weaponization Suite
Zach Blas, Duke University

Sexuality, Biotechnology, Excess
Pinar Yoldas, Duke University

On Uncomputable Numbers: Turing, Wittgenstein, and the Origins of Queer Computing
Jacob Gaboury, New York University and Rhizome

Femme Disturbance: Wearable Electronics and Fashion Hacking
Micha Maya Cárdenas, University of Southern California

Additive Race and Gestural Gender: Erasing the Human in Performance Capture Technologies
Alison Reed, University of California, Santa Barbara

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Demonstration of Scalar
9:00–11:00 AM
Presenter: Micha Carenas, University of Southern California
Limit: 25 participants.
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.
SOLD OUT

This free workshop invites participants to consider the possibilities for their work of emerging forms of digital scholarship. Participants will consider how digital platforms permit them to create media-rich and interactive publications that bring scholarly analysis and visual media together in lively and engaging ways. At the heart of the workshop is a hands-on introduction to the digital authoring platform, Scalar, a project funded by the Mellon Foundation as part of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture. Participants must bring a laptop with wireless capability to the workshop.

THATCamp CAA 2013 – Pre-Conference Forum on Digital Art History

See the THATCamp CAA program here

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform
that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form,
born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble
media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing
in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.