hi all-- i’ve also been busy with micha putting together a curated set of videos for mix nyc, a queer experimental video festival.
since this week is broadly on the topic of computation and the nonhuman in queer media art & theory--and since it’s the last day on this topic, i’d really like to bring in jacob and homay. while michael, jack, and ian have really heated up the discussions on sr and ooo, homay and jacob have different approaches to these topics that i’d like to not let get completely side-lined. jacob, micha and i for awhile have been interested in viruses. i was thinking about viruses in relation to your work on uncomputability. in the exploit, galloway and thacker talk about viruses as illegible and incalculable. the virus also shows up in shu lea cheang’s new work UKI, which she refers to as a live viral code spam performance. http://www.u-k-i.co/index-project.html i’m also thinking about ricardo dominguez and the electronic disturbance theater and how they’ve conceptualized some of their work as viruses infecting capital and dominant systems of power. i wonder if you have any thoughts on the virus. perhaps it can be paired with the glitch. but the nonhuman in queerness could also be approached through nonhuman things that have strongly impacted queerness, and the virus would certainly be one of those things. there’s a new issue of women studies quarterly on the viral. maybe some people are addressing these questions in there? i’m asking these questions and bringing up the virus because i’m curious about building the repertoire of queer tech logics you’ve discussed through and beyond failure and the glitch. homay, micha shared your work on turing with me. and i remember in your article you attempt to work through how Turing’s scientific and computational research could be infused with his erotic desires. could you say more about this? and maybe how turing helps you investigate how queer desire can shape or affect computation? -- zach blas artist & phd candidate literature, information science + information studies, visual studies duke university www.zachblas.info _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
