<div><a href="http://autonets.org/call-for-workshop-participants-to-perform-autonets-in-an-urban-intervention-at-the-encuentro/">http://autonets.org/call-for-workshop-participants-to-perform-autonets-in-an-urban-intervention-at-the-encuentro/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:17.27272605895996px;color:rgb(75,80,84);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">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 <a href="http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/proximo/enc-2012-overview" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(114,163,60);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:initial">8th Enceuntro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics</a>. 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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:17.27272605895996px;color:rgb(75,80,84);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><a href="http://autonets.org/call-for-workshop-participants-to-perform-autonets-in-an-urban-intervention-at-the-encuentro/8th-hemi-encuentro-brazil/" rel="attachment wp-att-316" style="color:rgb(114,163,60);margin:0px;padding:0px"><img class="" alt="8th hemi encuentro brazil" src="http://autonets.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/8th-hemi-encuentro-brazil.png" width="280" height="362" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;"></a><br>
</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:17.27272605895996px;color:rgb(75,80,84);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:17.27272605895996px;color:rgb(75,80,84);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:17.27272605895996px;color:rgb(75,80,84);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><a href="http://autonets.org/blog/captura-de-pantalla-2012-09-18-a-las-10-16-52-pm-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-306" style="color:rgb(114,163,60);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:initial"><img class="" alt="Captura de pantalla 2012-09-18 a las 10.16.52 PM" src="http://autonets.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2012-09-18-a-las-10.16.52-PM1-300x167.png" width="300" height="167" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;"></a></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:17.27272605895996px;color:rgb(75,80,84);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">About me…</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:17.27272605895996px;color:rgb(75,80,84);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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 <a href="http://transreal.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(114,163,60);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:initial">transreal.org</a> and tweet at <a href="http://twitter.com/michacardenas" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(114,163,60);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:initial">@michacardenas</a>.</p>
</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>New Directions Scholar, USC Center for Feminist Research<br>
<br>MFA, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego<br><br>Author, The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities, <a href="http://amzn.to/x8iJcY" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/x8iJcY</a> <br><br>blog: <a href="http://transreal.org" target="_blank">http://transreal.org</a><br>
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