Hola tod@s, check out my new article Reality Shifting Pt. 3, Queering New Media, discussing technesexual, and mixed reality as protocological resistance. Leave a comment!
Also, join Elle Mehrmand, Chris Head, Zach Blas, me and Dream Addictive labs on December 19th for Upgrade! Tijuana! It’s going to be awesome and is in our new location, Protolab!
Upgrade! Tijuana, Sat Dec 19th, Elle Mehrmand, Chris Head and Zach Blas
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Upgrade! Tijuana
6-8pm
@ Protolab
Presentations by:
Zach Blas
Elle Mehrmand
Chris Head
Telefono: (0152 – 664) 686 1610 y 686 6318
Dirección: Blvd. Agua Caliente # 10535
 Edificio Gallegos Planta
Baja.
Fracc. Aviación, Tijuana, B.C. Mexico.
C.P.22014
Poster here:
http://upgrade.dreamaddictive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/upgrade2.jpg
and http://upgrade.dreamaddictive.com
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Elle Mehrmand
is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses the body,
electronics, video, photography, sound and installation within her works.
She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music
collective who create dark, electronic, middle eastern, rhythmic jazz
rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, and received her BFA in
art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. Elle has received grants
from UCIRA and Fine Arts Affiliates. She is a researcher at CRCA and the
b.a.n.g. lab at UCSD. Her performances have been shown in Los Angeles,
Tijuana, Montreal, Dublin, San Diego, Long Beach, San Fransisco and
Bogotá, Colombia.
sextrument. <2008> performance/video
A live durational performance where I masturbated for one hour, with a
Nintendo Wii remote controller. The accelerometer sensor in the Wii-mote
measured the speed and intensity of my hand movement, which sent messages
to MaxMSP altering the sound of my voice, which was then projected through
speakers outside of the room. Behind a locked door, I invited viewers to
look through the peephole, seeing only the bottom of my breasts, down to
the top of my pubic line, revealing the in-between.
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/something-happening/?p=177
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Zach Blas
www.zachblas.info
is an artist and writer working at the intersections of networked media,
queerness, and the political. he is particularly interested in activist
art that addresses the methods and styles in which technologies, bodies,
and capital impact, reconstitute, and proliferate assemblages of
sexuality, gender, and knowledge, alongside the potentials and
possibilities of reshaping these assemblages as well as reconfiguring
un/human modes of agency and resistance. zach is a phd student in
literature & information science + information studies at duke university.
he holds a mfa from the design | media arts department at the university
of california los angeles, a post-baccalaureate certificate from the
school of the art institute of chicago in the art and technology studies
department, and a bachelor of science from boston university in film and
philosophy.”
zach’s current project, Queer Technologies, is an organization that
develops applications and situations for queer intervention and social
formation. Queer Technologies produces flows of resistance within larger
spheres of capitalist structurations, “identifying” and “disidentiying”
with these spheres in tandem. All pieces are designed as product, artwork,
and political tool, materialized through an industrial manufacturing
process so that they may be disseminated widely. QT products include
transCoder, a queer programming anti-language; ENgenderingGenderChangers,
a “solution” to Gender Adapters’ male/female binary; Gay Bombs, a
technical manual manifesto that outlines a “how to” of queer networked
activism; and GRID, a mapping application used to track the dissemination
of QT products and map the “battle plans” for Queer Technologies to more
thoroughly infect networks of capital. Queer Technologies’ products are
often displayed and deployed at the Disingenuous Bar, which offers a
heterotopic space for political support for “technical” problems. QT
products are also shop-dropped in various consumer electronics stores,
such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack, and Target.
(www.queertechnologies.info)
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Christopher Head
gubbish.org
Christopher Head is a MFA candidate at the University of California San
Diego. His practice is focused on the application of experimental
technologies and art to address issues at the intersection between
virtual, public, and social spaces. Christopher’s work often engages
computer games, data visualization, and issues of software production.
Christopher’s current project and upcoming thesis exhibition (tentatively
titled “mmmo”), is an attempt to create a software framework for exploring
alternative narrative forms in interactive digital media. “mmmo” will be
released first as a pair of free/libre and open-source software libraries,
with a follow-up implementation as a development example and use-case.
