[spectre] virus.circus and Autonets: Talks and Performance at UCLA this weekend

[micha cárdenas]

Hello,

This weekend I'll be speaking on a panel on Friday at the UCLA Queer Studies
Conference <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/events/current.html> on
the topic of "Wearable Electronics as Femme Disturbance", discussing
virus.circus <http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixedrelations-viruscircus> and my
new project, Autonets<http://www.annenberglab.com/project/Autonets-LocalAutonomyNetworks/Concept/124>.
The panel is going to be amazing with lots of other digital media scholars! I
am so honored to be on this panel with them. I can't wait! Also, I'm going
to be showing some new wearable electronics from the
Autonets<http://www.annenberglab.com/project/Autonets-LocalAutonomyNetworks/Concept/124>
series
in the Queerture Fashion show.

3:00 – 4:15 Royce 306
*Techno-Queer Self Fashioning: Digital Theory by Digital Praxis
*Moderator:
Michael Stambolis, Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles

Speakers:

“The Real and the Fake: Asian American Digitality, Drag Kings, & ‘All of
Me’”
Margaret Rhee, Ethnic Studies, University of California – Berkeley

“Borrowed Time: Fan Video and Queer Temporality through a Cylon Digital
Remix Machine”
Alexis Lothian, English, University of Southern California

“Please Select Gender: Video Games and Butch Expression”
Amanda Phillips, English, University of California – Santa Barbara

“Wearable Electronics as Femme Disturbance: Sex Positive Community Responses
to Gendered Violence”
Micha Cárdenas, Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice, University of
Southern California

For Immediate Release
Contact: Tania Hammidi, Artistic Director
queerture at gmail d0t c0m

QUEERTURE: QUEER + COUTURE
Featuring LGBTQ designers, stylists and fashion illustration

LOS ANGELES October 15, 2011 6 - 7pm -- An epic LGBTQ fashion show is
befalling the UCLA campus as the final event of a two-day conference “Queer
Fashion,” organized by UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
Program. According to Artistic Director Tania Hammidi, “this show is a
sartorial meeting of the super-powers; we’re featuring LGBTQ models,
designers, and stylists to produce a show that busts the seams of classic
runway shows.”

Queerture 2011 is hosting a spectrum of L G B T Q I A designs, styles, and
struts – from fierce femme style to trans wearable electronics, from vintage
& suited dapperness to contemporary urban wear, from boxers to one-of-a-kind
hats. Free and open to the public. JOIN US!

Location: 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus
Parking: Lot 5, $11
Directions: http://www.uclalive.org/visit/royce_hall.asp
Sponsored: by over 28 UCLA departments and units

Fashion designs by: Styling by:
Studs Clothing and Debonair Laura Luna-Creative Xicana
Michael and Hushi Dapper Dyke-Vivian Escalante
Stafford & Shelton
Jimmy Au's Suits for Men 5’ 8” and Under, with stylist Leon Wu
Micha Cárdenas and Adam Tinnel

Performance and Installation:
Pre-show, "Shrouds of Aloha's Kiki" by Aloha Tolentino
Costume design from performance artist Nao Bustamante
Installation by Guinevere Turner
Durational fashion performance “Mountain” by Aaron Valenzuela

Make-Up/Hair: Fashion Illustration:
Pony Lee Estrange Maria Leung
Sparrow Fox Karen Dhillon
Aubrie Davis Lindsay Fackrell
Color Beat Los Angeles

-- 
micha cárdenas
PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California
Provost Fellow, University of Southern California

Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press,
http://is.gd/daO00

HASTAC Scholar, http://hastac.org

blog: http://transreal.org






-- 
micha cárdenas
PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California
Provost Fellow, University of Southern California

Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press,
http://is.gd/daO00

HASTAC Scholar, http://hastac.org

blog: http://transreal.org
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