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Zach Blas</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:18.997394561767578px">Spring 2013 Visiting Artist Lecture Series</p>
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Tuesday, Feb 26, 2-4pm</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:18.997394561767578px">Institute for Multimedia Literacy, Seminar Room</p>
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Zach Blas is an artist-theorist working at the intersections of networked media, queerness, and politics. He is the creator of the art group Queer Technologies, a founding member of The Public School Durham, and co-founder with Micha Cárdenas of the queer media listserv Q. He is also a PhD candidate in The Graduate Program in Literature, Information Science + Information Studies, and Visual Studies at Duke University. Zach’s current project Facial Weaponization Suite: Fag Face Mask provides sets of masks for public protest against biometric facial recognition and has been presented at the 2012 HTMlles Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture in Montreal, Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, MIX 25 Queer Experimental Film Festival in New York, and <a href="http://GL.TC/H">GL.TC/H</a> 2112 in Chicago. Zach has recently published writings in the “Five Videos” essay series, commissioned by <a href="http://rhizome.org">rhizome.org</a> and the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology for the 2012 Liverpool Biennial, and the Viral issue of Women Studies Quarterly. Zach holds a Master of Fine Art, Design Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles. Currently, Zach is an artist/researcher-in-residence at the b.a.n.g.lab and Performative Nanorobotics Lab, directed by Ricardo Dominguez, at University of California San Diego.</p>
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<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.166666030883789px;line-height:20px">The interdivisional Media Arts + Practice PhD program (iMAP) within the School of Cinematic Arts is a unique program offering a rigorous and creative environment for scholarly innovation as students explore the intersection of design, media and critical thinking while defining new modes of research and scholars</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.166666030883789px;line-height:20px">hip for the 21st century.</span><br>
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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><br>
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