[spectre] Call for workshop participants to perform Autonets in an Urban Intervention at the VIII Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

[micha cárdenas]

http://autonets.org/call-for-workshop-participants-to-perform-autonets-in-an-urban-intervention-at-the-encuentro/

Join Micha Cárdenas' workshop “Building Local Autonomy Networks” from
Wednesday to Friday, Jan 16-18 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m, Escola de Comunicação
e Artes, Unuversity of Sao Paulo at the 8th Enceuntro of the Hemispheric
Institute of Performance and
Politics<http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/proximo/enc-2012-overview>.
In the workshop, we will be developing a group movement piece to perform in
the Urban Intervention portion of the Enceuntro on Friday, January 17. This
site specific movement based performance will be created by the group,
using wearable electronics and building on the concepts of networks,
autonomy, safety, anti-violence and resistance addressing the local issues
that workshop participants introduce.

[image: 8th hemi encuentro
brazil]<http://autonets.org/call-for-workshop-participants-to-perform-autonets-in-an-urban-intervention-at-the-encuentro/8th-hemi-encuentro-brazil/>

Workshop – Building Local Autonomy Networks – The Autonets workshop will
engage participants in a discussion, using Theater of the Oppressed, dance
and performance exercises, of how we can form local networks of autonomy
and solidarity in order to create community based responses to violence we
face on a daily basis, which may be personal, gendered, racial or state
sponsored.

Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is a line of mesh networked electronic
clothing with the goal of building autonomous local networks that don’t
rely on corporate infrastructure to function, inspired by community based,
anti-racist, prison abolitionist responses to gendered violence. Autonets
seeks to respond to the daily risk of violence that continues to increase
as capital becomes less stable.

[image: Captura de pantalla 2012-09-18 a las 10.16.52
PM]<http://autonets.org/blog/captura-de-pantalla-2012-09-18-a-las-10-16-52-pm-2/>

About me…

Micha Cárdenas is an artist/theorist who works at the intersections of
bodies, technology, movement and politics. They are a PhD student in Media
Arts and Practice (iMAP) at University of Southern California and a member
of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0. Micha’s project Local Autonomy
Networks was selected for the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose and was the
subject of their keynote performance at the 2012 Allied Media Conference.
Micha’s book The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities,
published by Atropos Press in 2012, discusses art that uses augmented,
mixed and alternate reality, and the intersection of those strategies with
the politics of gender, in a transnational context. Micha holds an MFA from
University of California, San Diego, an MA in Communication from the
European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from Florida
International University. They blog at transreal.org and tweet at
@michacardenas <http://twitter.com/michacardenas>.

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

New Directions Scholar, USC Center for Feminist Research

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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