Presenting at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
09/19-24/2012"The Place of Difference in the Digital Humanities" with Micha Cárdenas, Kristy Kang, and Veronica Paredes
This panel will explore the possibilities of placing "difference" at the center of studies in digital culture and technology. Presentations will provoke discussions about race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, ability and other forms of difference that undergird, overtly or covertly, the diverse methodologies of critical digital studies. As artist-theorists, activist scholars, theoretical archivists, critical race, and gender coders (1) who are developing art-design-scholarly methods to address "difference" in digital studies, panelists will offer examples from their own work and research.
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Science of the Oppressed: Performative and Networked Strategies for Artivism
06/28-07/01/2012With Zach Blas, Micha Cárdenas, and Ricardo Dominguez at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, MI
All of the artists and theorists on this panel practice Science of the Oppressed in their work in ways that respond to the question: how do we decolonize our bodies when our bodies are extended by technology? These artists write countercodes in code poems, visualize the movement of movements, disturb borders with mayan technology and escape technologies of recognition with queer technology.
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Participating in the London School of Economics PhD Media Symposium
06/15/2012The LSE 2012 symposium will be on "Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests"
Conceptualising cosmopolitanism as a contested term resting on a tension between the local and the global, the Symposium will examine the mediation of protests through new media platforms as they expand within and beyond national borders. The key question we will address is: How are new media implicated in the creation of cosmopolitan dispositions and protest mobilisations?
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Discussing the Arab Intifadas with Digital Journalism Students at UCSD
05/22/2012Invited to UC San Diego to address Liz Losh's Digital Journalism class
VJ Um Amel's practices as an artist have recently been expressed through archiving and remixing social media from the Arabic-speaking world. Her motivation to collect and analyze content comes from a desire to find the voice of the Arabic-speaking body politic over the last turbulent few years. The virtual lab, R-Shief, (Arabic for the word, "archive"), explores a world were information is born digital. This type of data exploration is a type of cultural analytics, rooted as a digital arts and humanities project.
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By the Demand of the People: Archiving digitally born information in Arabic
05/17/2012Invited back to give another talk to the Intro to Digital Arts class at UC Santa Cruz
VJ Um Amel's practices as an artist have recently been expressed through archiving and remixing social media from the Arabic-speaking world. Her motivation to collect and analyze content comes from a desire to find the voice of the Arabic-speaking body politic over the last turbulent few years. The virtual lab, R-Shief, (Arabic for the word, "archive"), explores a world were information is born digital. This type of data exploration is a type of cultural analytics, rooted firmly as a digital arts and humanities project.
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