sure... thanks for asking... marc garrett wrote: > Hi Micha, > > Good to hear from you & a warm welcome for joining... > > a submission from a femme transgirl is a quality addition :-) > > Do you want us to add your first comments/intro as well? > > marc > > > I was so excited to see this, as I'm always filling in my students about > ada lovelace, who seems to get left out somehow of our "introduction to > computing and the arts" class, often, or only brielfy mentioned... > > So I signed up for the list. But I'm not a woman, I'm transgender. I > don't identify as a man or a woman, but I guess you could say I'm mtf, > in permanent transition. So, if you want a submission from a femme > transgirl, here goes... > > my name - micha cárdenas > > i'm interested in the interplay of the body, technology and biopolitics. > i did a performance called Becoming Dragon in dec 2008. just finishing > up my mfa at ucsd, just started working in sheldon brown's experimental > game lab. > > url - http://technotrannyslut.com | http://secondloop.wordpress.com > > inspired by... so many women, but i guess here are the main ones... many > of whom are already probably mentioned but i can add why for me. > > avital ronell - http://as.nyu.edu/object/avitalronell.html - philosopher > of technology, for being my friend and mentor, ever so briefly, one > summer at EGS, and a massive inspiration who turned my whole idea of > knowledge and thought and ways of approaching politics upside down and > inside out. i can't even describe how much i owe to her... > > Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone - http://sandystone.com - another > philosopher of technology, another amazing woman who i met at EGS who > was so supportive of me throughout my 15 immersive performance of > Becoming Dragon, being more than generous, providing guidance, wisdom > and grounding, and for thinking through the questions of online worlds > and gender so long before i even started considering them, and for so > generously providing me with personal advice about transitioning that > was so valuable to me. > > adriene jenik - http://adrienejenik.net - networked performance artist, > creator of distributed social cinema - adriene is one of the main > reasons i am even in grad school and decided to dedicate myself to being > an artist and has also been so, so generous and giving throughout my > years working with and knowing her. her warmth along with her deep, deep > knowledge of new media art has guided me so much. she has been one of > the main people in my life to really educate me about feminism. > > orlan - http://orlan.net/ - for not being afraid to find the limits of > merging the body and technology, orlan is the artist who has inspired me > most. i think her work is a shining example and challenge to artists' > commitment everywhere. > > donna haraway - another massive inspiration for how i think about > politics and technology and the body who's thinking on interspecies and > transspecies relationships helped me develop my own ideas in my work. > > beatriz da costa - bioartist, interspcies collaborator - > http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/ - for making so much inspiring bioart, > for the brilliant, brilliant term Tactical Biopolitics, for her guidance > in one short studio visit about Becoming Dragon which helped me reframe > my approach to the whole project, and which has turned out to me a great > suggestion. > > elle mehrmand - http://visarts.ucsd.edu/something-happening/?author=18 | > http://myspace.com/assemblyofmazes (that's her band, but she's working > on a website soon) -my closest and dearest friend right now, a brilliant > new media performance artist and beautiful, strong, brave ally. > > subrosa - http://cyberfeminism.net/ - for their brilliant linking of > witchhunts, queer and gender variant persecution and feminine knowledge > production in Yes Species. > > probably not surprising, but its my personal list... > > -- micha cárdenas performance / social media / public culture C(a)lit2 > Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net CRCA Researcher, http://crca.ucsd.edu > MFA Candidate, UCSD, http://visarts.ucsd.edu MA, EGS, http://egs.edu > blog: http://bang.calit2.net/tt > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing > list [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >
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