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Calling all Hackers, Hacktivists, Political Hackers, Gender Hackers, Body Hackers, Bio Hackers, Critical Race Coders, Queer Technologists, Femme Scientists and Occupation Hackers!
I’m helping a dear friend of mine, VJ Um Amel, to organize a global Hack-A-Thon Dec 9-11 to analyze / visualize / remix data from the global occupation movement [...]
This year, I’m a HASTAC Scholar, which means I’m blogging both on this site and on theirs. Actually, since this site is mostly for announcements, I do most of my blogging over at HASTAC nowadays. I’m posting part of this entry here to help spur more discussion about these topics.
http://hastac.org/blogs/michacardenas/2011/11/26/hastac-community-standards-and-interdisciplinarity
The [...]
fauxlographic
//elle mehrmand
november [21-23] 2011
opening reception monday 11-21-11 @ 6pm
performance @ 7pm
university of california san diego
visual arts facility // performance space
fauxlographic is a performative installation that takes place within an ethno-dysphoric cloning lab, where one can clone themselves in order to analyze their diasporic anxiety. The fauxlographic clones enact sonic rituals in Farsi, [...]
I’m currently working on a book manuscript to be published by Atropos Press in the next few months, including texts written by myself and in collaboration with Elle Mehrmand and transcriptions of panels with Stelarc, Sandy Stone, Ricardo Dominguez, Amy Sara Carroll, Brian Holmes and James Morgan. Zach Blas is the [...]
I’ll be speaking on a panel on Friday at the UCLA Queer Studies Conference on the topic of “Wearable Electronics as Femme Disturbance”, discussing virus.circus and my new project, Autonets. The panel is going to be amazing with lots of other digital media scholars! I am so honored to be on [...]
Listen to me being interviewed by Riku Katsuda on Flip the Script on KPFK!
We talked about virus.circus in the Speculative show at LACE!
Click here to listen (it’s the last 10 minutes):
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_110808_200030matsuda.MP3
Talks and Performances
2012
January 20, 21, Duke University
Marxism and New Media Conference
February 7, San Francisco
RADAR Reading Series
March 2, Irvine
UC Irvine, Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, Impasse
March 9 - 13, Austin, TX
SXSW Interactive, Queer Viralities Panel
April 6, Los Angeles
Changlings: A Night of Trans Performance, Highways Performance Space
April 19, 20 Los Angeles
WANDERLUST, Latino/a poetics of place, Highways Performance Space
August, Mexico City
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics VIII Encuentro, performance and workshop
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- Alexis Lothian – Queer Geek Theory
- b.a.n.g. lab
- Elle Mehrmand
- Gurl Where You At?
- Helaine Gawlica
- Kate Bornstein
- Mommy Fiercest
- Networked Performance
- Occupy California
- Occupy Everything
- post.thing.net
- Prosthetics – Nikki Moore
- S. Bear Bergman
- Sexgenderbody
- Supercluster – Claudia Algara, Tijuana Artist
