[spectre] Queer Viral Practices at SXSW Interactive

[micha cárdenas]

On March 9th, Zach Blas <http://zachblas.info/>,  Pinar
Yoldas<http://pinaryoldas.info/>,
and myself will give artist talks on the Queer Viral Practices in New Media
Art and Theory panel <http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100223>
 at South by Southwest Interactive Festival <http://sxsw.com/interactive> in
Austin, TX. Please come join us if you’ll be there!
<http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100223>Queer Viral Practices
in New Media Art and Theory

#sxsw #queerviral

Micha Cárdenas, http://transreal.org

Zach Blas, http://zachblas.info

Pinar Yoldas, http://pinaryoldas.info


Friday, March 9

3:30PM - 4:30PM

Austin Convention Center

500 E Cesar Chavez St

Room 10AB

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100223


In this panel, we will focus on queer new media art and philosophy that
uses and intervenes into the viral to form a radical politics of revolt and
utopia. Viral will be engaged with technically, philosophically,
artistically, biologically, and effectively. Our aim is to show that while
viral rhetoric and discourses have marginalized and controlled queer
populations, the viral remains an allusive, volatile potential that can be
experimented with toward creating new queer politics and worlds. Cárdenas
 will discuss her collaboration with Elle Mehrmand, virus.cirus, an
episodic series of performances using wearable electronics and live audio
to bridge virtual and physical spaces that explores queer futures of latex
sexuality amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria and DIY medicine.
Blas will speak on new works from his ongoing Queer Technologies project
that attempt to formulate a viral aesthetics based on a replicating
difference of never-being-the-sameness against capital’s own modulating
structure.


Thanks to Rhizome.org for recommending our
panel!<http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jan/30/rhizome-recommends-art-and-technology-sxsw-panels/>

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jan/30/rhizome-recommends-art-and-technology-sxsw-panels/

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

MFA, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego

Author, The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities,
http://amzn.to/x8iJcY

blog: http://transreal.org
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