repost from my HASTAC blog.
As an artist/theorist, I find myself thinking a lot lately about the place of the personal in my work, and I wonder how other HASTAC scholars and readers think about these issues.
A major part of my aesthetic as a performance artist has been a choice to place personal [...]
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, [...]
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
The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) is pleased to invite you to:
CRCA Exchange #6 : Cyborg Culture
Featuring CRCA/Calit2 researchers Elle Mehrmand, Micha Cardenas and Nick Butko.
Friday April 8, 5pm – 7pm
CRCA Performative Computing Lab
Room 1606
Atkinson Hall
UCSD Voigt Drive, La [...]
virus.circus.probe // 5 min excerpt // somatic SENSOR, Highways Performance Space from micha cardenas on Vimeo.
…testing for viral contamination…
…due to recent viral outbreaks, protective latex barriers must be worn at all times…
…the hysteria is everywhere…
…touching, and illness, are prohibited by law…
…skin to [...]
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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