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Upcoming exhibition and talks! Trans Technology, Congress on Research in Dance, Critical Ethnic Studies Association

Next week I’ll be heading to New Jersey for a fantastic exhibition and symposium called Trans Technology. I’m so honored to be in this show with such amazing artists. Check it out below!

Also, I’m so happy that two panels I proposed were accepted! I’ll be speaking at The Congress on Research in Dance with Allison Wyper, Ashley Ferro-Murray and Patrick Keilty and at the Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference with Alexis Lothian, Alexandrina Agloro and Shao-Ling Ma!

SYMPOSIUM / March 5, 2013

This event is free and open to the public

DOUGLASS LIBRARY
Mabel Smith Douglass Room

Hacking Workshop/Demonstration 11 AM – 12:15 PM
Artists: Georgia Guthrie, Stephanie Alarcon, and Micha Cardenas

Lunch 12:15 -1:15 PM
(Click here to RSVP)

ALEXANDER LIBRARY
Teleconference Lecture Hall, 4th Floor

Interventions in Tech Industry and STEM 2 – 3:30 PM
Panelists: Stephanie Alarcon (artist), Zach Blas (artist), Georgia Guthrie (artist), and Jessa Lingel (Rutgers PhD Candidate, LIS)
Moderator: Katie McCollough (Rutgers PhD Candidate, Media Studies)

Utopian Technics 4 – 5:30 PM
Panelists: Micha Cardenas (artist), Heather Cassils (artist), Jacolby Satterwhite (artist), and Leah Devus (Associate Professor, Rutgers History Department)
Moderator: Aren Aizura (Rutgers Institute for Research on Women, Post-Doctoral Researcher)

On View: Trans Technology
Circuits of Culture, Self, Belonging
January 22 – June 3, 2013
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass Library
Gallery Hours: 9 AM – 4:30 PM; Weekends by appointment
Press Release

net.walkingtools.Transformer.shift() – my slides from the Catalyzing Knowledge conference

The Center for Race and Gender’s 10th anniversary conference was amazing. I felt so honored to be there with such amazing scholars. In particular, Sara Kaplan and Julia Oparah’s talks were incredible. Below are my slides from my talk, where I performed the poem in the title of the talk for the first time and tried out some new ideas around Femme Disturbance that I’m really excited about. Enjoy!

transformer-shift-talk PDF (5MB)

More info about the event is here

Thoughts on Art Tap Out, Failed State and Gender Outlaws the Next Generation

This has already been such a crazy year, and its going to continue to be packed with things I’m excited about! This month Elle and I published a new transreal story on version.org, and showed our work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego last night!

I’m also incredibly happy to share that I’m going to have a piece of writing included in Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman’s new book Gender Outlaws, the Next Generation. I’m really so honored to be in this book. Kate was a huge inspiration to me and her ideas continue to prove to be both radical and deeply important. I’m just ecstatic and can’t wait to have this book in my hands. There also a ton of other amazing authors that I’m so, so happy to be alongside in this book, which will hopefully be out in August.

In April, we have a lot going on as well. Elle and I will be giving a talk at the Failed State conference discussing the Transborder Immigrant Tool and our upcoming project virus.circus.

Then, the next day, Elle and I will be doing a short performance at Amy Adler’s studio in Los Angeles as part of Queer Pile Up organized by Darin Klein and Suzanne Wright. I can’t wait to join the whole beautiful queer milieu!

Art Tap Out was fun, even if it was a bit scary and tough at times, thanks to the straight up transphobia of one audience member who started with “I’m from a consvervative state…”. Really, it was great. I was happy that the discussion really demonstrated in a way that our piece, technésexual, elicited strong feelings from the audience. The most frustrating thing was that the sound was so poor and the video was compressed from HD to SD. The sound was played through such poor speakers that the main part of the sound, the heartbeat, was almost inaudible, when during the live performance it should be pounding loud enough that you feel it. Seriously, if you were there last night, watch the video on vimeo with decent headphones or speakers and you’ll have a totally different experience. My favorite part about the night was when the critic tried to say that live nude bodies have no emotional emotional impact anymore, but then refused to take his clothes off after Edward urged him to from the audience. Then another audience member called out “your reluctance just proves the power of the gesture!” Or maybe my favorite part was when he was insisting that the audience was just going to go home and forget about the whole thing, and then the bell rang to end the performance and the audience refused to go home and insisted that they could stay and keep discussing the piece. Nice. Hopefully someone has some video from last night, but I’ll try to post some photos as well.

Photo by Omar Pimienta

Come see Becoming Dragon in LA and San Jose

Whew! I have a super busy week with two events where I’m presenting Becoming Dragon. If you’re in LA or San Jose or the bay area, come see me! Today I’m finishing installing a large installation with prints and video at Supersonic 2009, the show of southern california graduating MFA’s from a number of different schools. That show is at the LA convention center and is open to the public on Thursday the 22nd and stays up until Sunday the 25th.There are so many amazing artists in this show, you have to come see it!

Also, I’m giving a talk about my experience of Becoming Dragon in San Jose, on Thursday the 22nd at 11:30am at the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality conference put on by the Society of Photonic Imaging Engineers. It’s at the San Jose convention center.

update and speaking at the UCIRA State of the Arts Conference

hi, i have so much going on in my life that is new and is making me so, so happy right now, and i have so much to say about the election, so i’ll just save it. as a friend of mine txt’d me this morning “fuck all those people who are keeping me a second class citizen”, about prop 8. it just shows the pathetic state of sexual politics in the united states. and did obama say in his acceptance speech that he may not be able to end the wars this term? i think he alluded to that. anyway, perhaps there is some new hope. as a dear friend of mine said to me, a lot of her family could’ve been killed for no reason under bush, because she is persian, so for her a change offers some very concrete hope.

on a more mundane note, if you’re in riverside this weekend, and want to hear about performance art in second life, come hear me talk on a panel at the UCIRA State of the Arts Conference.

State of the Arts 2008: Demonstration
Schedule of Events, November 6 – 8, 2008

The UC Institute for Research in the Arts will once again host State of the Arts 2008, an annual arts showcase/conference, bringing together artists, scholars, and arts administrators from across the UC system and beyond. This year’s program engages the theme of “demonstration” and will include performances, installations, presentations, interventions, workshops, and nightly events. Located at a different UC campus each year, this year’s program will be hosted by UC Riverside and situated in the historic downtown district.

demonstrate v. 1. show (feelings etc) by experiment 2. describe and explain (a proposition, machine etc) by experiment, use etc. 3. logically prove or be proof of 4. take part in or organize a public demonstration; demonstrator n. 1,3 make evident, establish, exhibit (see also PROVE) 1,2 display, illustrate see also EXPLAIN 1,4 march, rally, protest L. demonstrare de+monstrare; see MONSTER-ATE

Thursday, November 6th
6:00-9:00 PM
In conjunction with the City of Riverside’s Artwalk, UCIRA is proud to present Buckworld I on the downtown pedestrian mall. Buckworld is a theatrical production created by Rickerby Hinds, Assistant Professor of Theatre at UC Riverside. The production combines krump dancing and spoken word poetry, and has been featured at the New Los Angeles Theater Center and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

The Free Improvisation Ensemble will also present a freestyle theater project. Since its founding in 2001, the ensemble has brought together musicians, dancers, visual, media and theater artists working in both traditional and experimental performance genres. The ensemble has presented frequent performances on the UCR campus, and has appeared in a variety of performance venues throughout Southern California, including the Roy O’ Disney Hall at The California Institute for the Arts, The Technika Radika Festival at the University of California, San Diego, and the Open Fist Theatre in Hollywood.

Friday November 7th
8:00-9:00 – Registration and Coffee – Life Arts Center, 3485 University Avenue

9:00-9:15 – Campus Welcome by Dean Stephen Cullenberg and Professor Renee Coulombe, UC Riverside

9:15-10:00 – UCIRA Team Opening Remarks: “UCIRA: former/future” Kim Yasuda (UCSB) / Dick Hebdige (UCR) / Holly Unruh (UCSB) / Marko Peljhan (UCSB)

10:00-10:30 – Featured Speaker: Clementine Deliss (Future Academy, Edinburgh College of Art) Future Academy: Roaming, Prelusive, Permeable

10:30-12:00 – Demonstration I: Spacing Out
Julie Wyman (UC Davis) – On the Platform: locating the possibilities of athletic performance
Daniel Carrera (Los Angeles) – Primera Comunión
Sierra Brown (CSULB) – Port-to-Class Supercommute 2007

Richard Ross (UC Santa Barbara) – Politics to Beauty and Back again, or, you do what you gotta do.
Kim Yasuda (UC Santa Barbara / UCIRA), moderator

12:00-1:00 – Lunch (provided to registered participants)

1:00-1:30 – Featured Speaker: Toby Miller (UC Riverside): Talking Rubbish

1:30-3:00 – Demonstration II: In the Classroom
Micha Cardenas (UC San Diego) – Collective Art Practice in the mediated public space of Second Life
EG Crichton + Dee Hibbert-Jones (UC Santa Cruz) – Politics of Public Space/Gestures of Subversion
ShiPu Wang (UC Merced) – The Effecting Eye

3:00-3:30 – Featured Speaker: Bruce Ferguson (Future Arts Research, Arizona State University) – How I went 2 F.A.R.

3:30-5:00 – Roundtable ( Future Art + the Academy) with UC Arts Deans
Stephen Cullenberg (Dean, UC Riverside)
David Marshall (Dean, UC Santa Barbara)
Christopher Waterman (Dean, UC Los Angeles)
Kim Yasuda (UC Santa Barbara / UCIRA)
Dick Hebdige (UC Riverside)
Bruce Ferguson (F.A.R @ ASU)

5:00-6:00 – Opening Reception, Life Arts Studios
*please see UCIRA staff if you will need transportation to the UC Riverside campus for the 8:00pm Media Event*

8:00 –Media Event, Arts Building Performance Lab, Room 166 (UC Riverside)
The Kaiborg Duo (Jeff Kaiser, David Borgo)
Gamelan Plesetan (Rene Lysloff, no.e Parker, Renee Coulombe, Sapto Raharjo)
Compositions by Pablo Ortiz (UC Davis) with Ira Glansbeek
Chia-Yi Seetoo (UC Berkeley) + Paula K. (UC Berkeley) (In)visible C ties
Synthia Payne (UC Santa Cruz) Telematic Performance

Saturday, November 8th
8:30-9:30 – Registration and Coffee – Life Arts Center, 3485 University Avenue

9:30-11:00 – Demonstration III: Push Play
Pablo Ortiz (UC Davis) – Recent Compositions
Marsia Alexander-Clarke (Riverside, CA) – Tapestries
Sara Wookey (UC Los Angeles) – Walking LA/(Sur)facing the City
Michael Dessen (UC Irvine) – Telematics and Improvisation at the Turn of the 21st Century
Marko Peljhan (UC Santa Barbara / UCIRA), moderator

11:00-12:30 – Demonstration IV: Actors, Avatars and Cyberselves
Brenda Varda (Los Angeles) + Perry Hoberman (Los Angeles) – Cyberlilly 7
Annie Loui (UC Irvine) – Falling Girl
James Tobias (UC Riverside) – Stylistics of Wii
Danny Scheie (UC Santa Cruz), moderator

12:30-1:30 – Lunch (provided to registered participants)
Pat Payne’s demonstration Crawl will take place on the pedestrian mall throughout the morning. Crawl is an anti-war performance honoring female soldiers who have been killed in the War on Terror or been raped by their military comrades while serving their country. The work is inspired by the Superman performances by william pope.l, and is meant to bring attention to women in the military.

1:30-3:00 – Demonstration V: Fleshing Out
Pat Payne (Los Angeles) – Crawl
Assaf Pocker (Los Angeles) – ScarTissue
Aloha Tolentino (UC Riverside) – Confession – (with Eric Lorico and Ben Busa)
Isabella van Elferen (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Renee Coulombe (UC Riverside), Anna Scott (UC Riverside), moderators

3:00-4:30 – Demonstration VI: Acting, Ghosting, Gaming
Brandon Woolf (UC Berkeley) + Michael Shane Boyle (UC Berkeley) – The Tiger and the Philosopher: A Performance-Lecture on Günter Grass’ The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising

Tanner Higgin (UC Riverside) – Performative Play: Revising the Politics of Virtual Worlds

Synthia Payne (UC Santa Cruz) – The Telematic Circle

David Familian (UC Irvine), moderator

4:30-6:00 – Demonstration VII: Blended Events
Tim Labor (UC Riverside) + Martha Demson (Open Fist Theatre, Los Angeles) –                         Interdisciplinarity and the 99-Seat Theatre System
Jenifer Wofford (UC Berkeley) – Galleon Trade Art Exchange             California/Mexico/Phillippines
Martin Tickle (DJ Dragonfly)
Tyler Stallings (UC Riverside) – A Discussion of the Freshly Minted MFA as Surveyed in            Compass 2007: New Art from the University of California’s MFA Programs
Rickerby Hinds (UC Riverside), Matthias Geiger (UC Davis), moderators

6:00-7:00 – Reception, Florence Room, Life Arts Center

8:00 –Peripheral Visions Events, Life Arts Center
Show the Instruments: A Tactical Trade Show
with Larry Bogad, Steve Lambert and Aaron Gach
Improviser Michael Dessen
Video installation by Marsia Alexander-Clarke
Performance by Dick Hebdige (This I believe)
Film Screening by Daniel Carrera (Primera Comunión)
Film Screening by Ernesto Rios (Contaminated Valley)
Fashion by Feral by Cat Chloe, the Chakra Raw line and Danielle Delia Designs
Dance and Music Installation by DJ Dragonflyand Adaptable Girl

Sunday, November 9th
10:00-11:30 – UCIRA grants workshop – California Museum of Photography, 3824 Main Street, at University Avenue. UCIRA program staff will provide information and engage in an open dialogue that provides insight into the institute’s past and future grants programming as well as practical guidance to the application process.

12:00 – Caravan to High Desert Test Sites – Leaving from the Mission Inn. Sign up sheet and maps will be available