[spectre] The Transreal - Book Party at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives

[micha cárdenas]

Come and join me to celebrate the release of my new book The Transreal:
Political Aesthetics of Crossing
Realities<http://www.amazon.com/Transreal-Political-Aesthetics-Crossing-Realities/dp/0983915245/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329952222&sr=8-2>
at
the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives <http://www.onearchives.org/>!

There will be a introduction by Jack Halberstam and then I’ll do a brief
reading from the book.

6pm-7:30pm

909 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Wine and light refreshments will be served outside in the garden area.

Get your copy online from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Transreal-Political-Aesthetics-Crossing-Realities/dp/0983915245/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329952222&sr=8-2

The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities explores the use
of multiple simultaneous realities as a medium in contemporary art,
including mixed reality, augmented reality and alternate reality
approaches. Building on the notion of “trans” from transgender, signifying
the crossing of boundaries, the book proposes that transreal aesthetics
cross the boundaries created by a proliferation of conceptions of reality
that occurred as a result of postmodern theory and emerging technologies.

Proposing three operations for dealing with multiple realities, The
Transreal discusses artists and art collectives including Blast Theory, mez
breeze, Reza Negarestani, Ricardo Dominguez and Zach Blas. Through these
artists’ work and Cárdenas’ own artwork, including Becoming Dragon and
collaborations with Elle Mehrmand Becoming Transreal, technésexual and
virus.circus, The Transreal demonstrates that transreal aesthetics have
broad implications across new media, performance art and electronic
literature. The book spans a wide range of genres including theoretical
analyses of artworks, poetry, source code, photos of performances and
wearable electronics, and discussions with leading thinkers in new media
and performance art including Stelarc, Allucquére Rosanne Stone and Ricardo
Dominguez.

Thanks to the ONE Archives for hosting this event!
http://www.onearchives.org/
http://transreal.org/2012/03/17/the-transreal-book-party-at-the-one-national-gay-and-lesbian-archives/


-- 
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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