Upcoming and Recent Publications: Extra Terrestrial Sexuality, Queer Geographies Tijuana, Speculative and The Transreal
Sorry for the link dump, but I have been wanting to post these and haven’t had time to do so. Here are some publications I’m in that have just come out or are about to:
Encyclopedia Destructica: Extra-Terrestrial Sexuality
which was mentioned on io9!
Queer Geographies Tijuana, a new book with Lasse Lau and Felipe Zuñiga.
Speculative Catalog, get it on Lulu!
And I’m working on a new book titled “The Transreal: Aesthetics and Politics of Crossing Realities” which should be out in a few months! More on that soon!
Cultura y Género, Charla en la Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Jueves
Para: Felipe Zuñiga
Estimad@s:
Les invitamos cordialmente a la segunda charla del ciclo Cultura y Género. En esta ocasión les ofrecemos un programa doble con los ponentes Micha Cárdenas artista y teórica ( San Diego) y Deyanira Torres psiconalista y escritora (Tijuana).
Esperamos contar con su asistencia.
La cita es este jueves 10 de marzo, a las 5 p.m. en la Sala de Conferencias del Teatro Universitario Rubén Vizcaíno Valencia de la U.A.B.C.
Abajo la información de las ponencias:
“Construyendo Mundos Posibles Queer/Building Queer Future Worlds”.
Micha Cárdenas
Micha Cárdenas es una artista/teórica cuyo trabajo transreal mezcla espacios físicos y en la red para explorar las formas relacionales emergentes queer , la biopolítica y el conocimiento horizontal “Hágalo usted Mismo” (DYI por sus siglas en inglés). Actualmente es la directora asociada interina de Arte y Tecnología para el Sixth College de la U.C.S.D. para el programa de Arte y Tecnología. Se ha desempeñado como docente de asignatura en los departamentos de Artes Visuales y Estudios Críticos de Género en la U.C.S.D. Es artista/investigadora para la Escuela de Medicina de la U.C.S.D., para el C.R.C.A. y el b.a.n.g. lab en Calit2. Ha participado con sus obras y performances en bienales, museos y galerías alrededor del mundo incluyendo Estados Unidos, Europa, Latinoamérica y Medio Oriente.Su proyecto de colaboración con Elle Mehrmand, “Mixed Relations,” fue ganador de el premio para Emerging Fields Award del 2009 por la UCIRA. Sus publicaciones recientes incluyen Trans Desire/Affective Cyborgs, con Barbara Fornssler, de Atropos Press, “I am Transreal”, in GenderOutlaws: The Next Generation deSeal Press y “Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study” en Code Drift from CTheory.Su trabajo ha sido comentado en publicaciones como Art21, the Associated Press, LA Times, CNN, BBC World, Wired y Rolling Stone Italy.
“Diez premisas básicas sobre la sexualidad desde el psicoanálisis”.
Deyanira Torres Martín
Licenciada en Psicología Clínica por la Universidad Femenina de México, incoorporada a la UNAM. México, D.F. 1996. Maestra en Psicología Clínica por Cetys Universidad. Tijuana. Octubre del 2009. Cuenta con entrenamiento en Psicoanálisis Lacaniano con la Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis de París en México desde 1996 a la fecha.Miembro del Grupo Psicoanalítico de Tijuana. Se ha dedicado a la práctica clínica y privada y a la docencia desde hace 14 años.Docente y Coordinadora de los Psicologos Clínicos de Cetys Universidad.Ha publicado más de 80 artículos en diversas revistas de circulación nacional.
Upgrade! Tijuana, Dec 19th and Realityshifting Pt. 3
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.
I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY/IO NON HO NIENTE DA DIRE: Recent articles in Digimag and UCSD Guardian
The new article I co-authored with Felipe Zuniga entitled “IO NON HO NIENTE DA DIRE (I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY)” is in the current issue Digimag, an italian new media magazine. Since its only in Italian, I’ll post the english text here. The article discusses the Emergency – Emergent Agency / Emergencia – Agencia Emergente project for the Dialogos y Interrogantes portion of the Proyecto Civico exhibition at CECUT in Tijuana.
Also, the UCSD Guardian did some coverage of our recent forum $0 Tuition – Reimagining the University of California, their article Forum Discussion Centers on Call for Free Tuition is online at their website!
Today, 1pm, Los Angeles, Dorkbot Socal at Machine Project
Dorkbot SoCal 38
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
1pm
Micha Cárdenas – Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, UCSD //
Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab and b.a.n.g. lab
Chris Head – MFA Candidate UCSD // Artist/Researcher, Experimental
Game Lab and b.a.n.g. lab
Elle Mehrmand – MFA Candidate UCSD // Musician, Assembly of Mazes //
Artist/Researcher, b.a.n.g. lab
->http://va-grad.ucsd.edu/~drupal/node/918
The Freephone is an art project that aims to provide people just deported from the US with a free phone call. To achieve this, a group of UCSD MFA students and graduates came together to present the phone at the Lui Velazquez gallery in Tijuana, just a few feet from the turnstiles where people who are deported are dropped off by the border patrol. The project is by Chris Head, Micha Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, Katherine Sweetman, Felipe Zuñiga and Camilo Ontiveros.
The Freephone is an effort to use new media performance art or performance with technology to make the experience that people who are deported from the US a little bit less difficult. To make the phone, the artists bought a non working payphone casing from Ebay.com, wired it to a new $10 phone from a store and hooked that up to an adapter which would allow the phone to make calls over the internet. Then, the phone was installed outside of the Lui Velazquez gallery and the artists invited people coming through the turnstiles at the border to make a free phone call.
D.V. Rogers
->http://pieqf.allshookup.org/
Leaving no trace, the Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork (PIEQF) was a geologically interactive machine earthwork temporarily installed in the remote township of Parkfield, Central California during the summer of 2008. This time-sharing, performance earthwork merged together the micro-seismic resonance of geological time and the autonomous operation of a ready-made, modified machine, producing an immersive, digitally mapped 21st century machine earthwork action.
Owen Gerst
->http://stolondesign.com/
Owen Gerst is engaged in the process of architecture, but casts aside the title of architect. He is a representative of ideas, and draws a distinction between building and architecture. Building serves basic raw needs. Architecture is about something – an IDEA. It is the IDEA that, through the creative process, serves as the catalyst in a process of transformation – turning the very basic into something special, unique, and magnificent. The IDEA is the essence of architecture, and it is the IDEA that Gerst is interested in – the IDEA in all its forms and methods of representation.
technésexual performances in San Francisco and Tijuana
technesexual at The Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, part of Arse Elektronika 2009
technesexual at Entijuanarte 2009 in Tijuana, Mexico at the CECUT Museum
technesexual at Entijuanarte 2009 at the CECUT Museum in Tijuana, Mexico