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On March 9th,<a href="http://zachblas.info/" style="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;color:rgb(34,94,155);text-decoration:none"> Zach Blas</a>, <a href="http://pinaryoldas.info/" target="_blank" style="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;color:rgb(34,94,155);text-decoration:none">Pinar Yoldas</a>, and myself will give artist talks on the <a href="http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100223" target="_blank" style="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;color:rgb(34,94,155);text-decoration:none">Queer Viral Practices in New Media Art and Theory panel</a> at <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive" target="_blank" style="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;color:rgb(34,94,155);text-decoration:none">South by Southwest Interactive Festival</a> in Austin, TX. Please come join us if you’ll be there!</p>
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Queer Viral Practices in New Media Art and Theory</h1><div style="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:rgb(255,255,255)">
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#sxsw #queerviral</p><p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;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">
Micha Cárdenas, <a href="http://transreal.org">http://transreal.org</a></p><p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;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">
Zach Blas, <a href="http://zachblas.info">http://zachblas.info</a></p><p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;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">
Pinar Yoldas, <a href="http://pinaryoldas.info">http://pinaryoldas.info</a></p><p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;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">
</p><p class="p1"><br></p><p class="p1">Friday, March 9</p>
<p class="p1">3:30PM - 4:30PM</p>
<p class="p1">Austin Convention Center</p>
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</p><p class="p1">500 E Cesar Chavez St</p><p></p><p class="p1">Room 10AB</p>
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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.</p>
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<a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jan/30/rhizome-recommends-art-and-technology-sxsw-panels/" target="_blank" style="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;color:rgb(34,94,155);text-decoration:none">Thanks to Rhizome.org for recommending our panel!</a></p>
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<font face="'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px"><a href="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/</a></span></font></p>
</div><div><font face="'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px"><br></span></font></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><br><br></div><br>