<p style>Come and join me to celebrate the release of my new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Transreal-Political-Aesthetics-Crossing-Realities/dp/0983915245/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329952222&sr=8-2" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(34,94,155);margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none">The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities</a> at the <a href="http://www.onearchives.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(34,94,155);margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none">ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives</a>!</p>
<p style>There will be a introduction by Jack Halberstam and then I’ll do a brief reading from the book.</p><p style>6pm-7:30pm</p><p style>909 W. Adams Blvd.<br>Los Angeles, CA 90007</p><p style>Wine and light refreshments will be served outside in the garden area.</p>
<p style>Get your copy online from Amazon:</p><p style><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Transreal-Political-Aesthetics-Crossing-Realities/dp/0983915245/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329952222&sr=8-2" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(34,94,155);margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none">http://www.amazon.com/Transreal-Political-Aesthetics-Crossing-Realities/dp/0983915245/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329952222&sr=8-2</a></p>
<p style>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.</p>
<p style>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.</p>
<p style>Thanks to the ONE Archives for hosting this event! <a href="http://www.onearchives.org/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(34,94,155);margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none">http://www.onearchives.org/</a></p>
<div style><a href="http://transreal.org/2012/03/17/the-transreal-book-party-at-the-one-national-gay-and-lesbian-archives/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://transreal.org/2012/03/17/the-transreal-book-party-at-the-one-national-gay-and-lesbian-archives/</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>micha cárdenas<br>PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California<br>Provost Fellow, University of Southern California<br><br>MFA, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego<br>
<div><br></div><div>Author, The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities, <a href="http://amzn.to/x8iJcY" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/x8iJcY</a> <br><br></div><div>blog: <a href="http://transreal.org" target="_blank">http://transreal.org</a><br>
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