Shifting Poetics: Trans of Color Movement in Digital Media
micha cárdenas
Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Design
University of Washington | Bothell
Wednesday, February 10th, 12:00 pm
Alvina Krause Studio
Annie May Swift Hall
1920 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL
Lunch will be served
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micha cárdenas is an artist/theorist who works in performance, wearable electronics, hacktivism and critical gender studies. She develops technologies through workshops and collective design processes, inspired by existing networks of horizontal knowledge production in queer, transgender, and diasporic communities. In her talk, cárdenas will discuss her practice-based research projects, including Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets), Redshift and Portalmetal and UNSTOPPABLE, as well as media made by other artists including Zach Blas, Mattie Brice, and Nao Bustamante. Through these examples cárdenas will demonstrate the operations of the shift and the stitch as the basis for a trans of color poetics that offers alternatives to binaries of visibility/invisibility and transparency/opacity.