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Video of Critical Digital Studies Workshop

I recently gave a talk entitled “Epistemology of Transition” about
Becoming Dragon at Ctheory’s Critical Digital Studies Workshop in
Victoria, Canada. The video is now online! You can also see the rest of
the amazing talks from the workshop here.

Becoming Dragon: An Epistemology of Transition

How are technologies of transformation facilitating new becomings, new
modes of learning and new sites of knowledge? The performance Becoming
Dragon sought to explore two lines of technology, Multi-User Virtual
Environments and biotechnology. Following Anna Munster’s call for
Transversal Technology Studies, this paper is an attempt to map two
transversal lines between these two directions of technology: transition
or becoming as a mode of being and mixing of realities, genders and
sexualities as a strategy of subversion. The intersections of these lines
of technology and transversal strategies of action will be examined as
operating within and against two fields of knowledge production,
phenomenology and what Ricardo Dominguez has called “science of the
oppressed”.

http://www.pactac.net/pactacweb/web-content/videoarchives/cdsw/D1-03-Cardenas.mp4

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Also, come see the 25 minute documentation video of Becoming Dragon in Los
Angeles this fri night at the I-5 gallery in the Brewery Artist Colony!

MFA Conversations Part II at the I-5 Gallery

At I-5 Gallery in the Brewery Artist Colony
July 17th, 2009 7PM to 10PM
July 17 to September 11, 2009
Artist Talks: July 25 and August 22
2PM to 4PM

Conversation: (NOUN) 1. An informal spoken exchange of thoughts and
feelings; a familiar talk.
2. Social intercourse; close association. 3. Rare. Close acquaintance, as
with an
object of study.

I-5 Gallery is pleased to announce the second in the “MFA Conversations”
series of shows being offered this summer through the fall of 2009. MFA
Conversations Part II continues to explore the abundance of MFA programs
in the Southern California area from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Despite
their shared geography, these programs represent a range of diverse
offerings, foci, students, and work. While such diversity yields richness,
it can also have an isolating effect on students from these institutions,
who do not have many opportunities to interact in the greater southern
California arts community.

Curator Marla Koosed explains: “MFA Conversations Part II builds on the
foundation established by Part Iʼs show and artist conversations and
will offer another opportunity for dialogue among the artists and their
works. It will also offer visitors to the gallery an exceptional
opportunity to see an edited sample of some of the finest work being
produced by Southern California MFA Graduates. While most MFA shows are up
for a limited period of time; Part II will be up for 2 months. This allows
time for the scheduled artist talks, for the participants to discuss their
work, each othersʼ work, and to share those conversations with a
wider audience, the public.” Artist talks are scheduled from 2PM to 4PM on
Saturday, July 25th and Saturday, August 22nd. On the heels of Part I, MFA
Conversations Part II will show work from 7 schools; Art Center College of
Design, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, Otis
and Calarts. This show is not a survey or comprehensive of all the
graduates: Instead, studio visits for all eligible candidates for this
show were conducted, and participants were chosen from that pool. The
intimate space of the I-5 Gallery allows for an exhibit like this to
function and for the works to interact by the space they cohabit.

The MFA Conversations series will conclude with a third show, Professor
Dialogues that will feature select works from faculty of the 15 schools
and will take place Winter 2010. Stay tuned
.

I-5 Gallery
2100 North Main Street, Suite A-9
Los Angeles, CA 90031
1-323-342-0717
Press Information
For Immediate Release
Contact: Nancy Ramirez, Gallery Director
Curator: Marla Koosed
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