Englischer Zoom-Vortrag: MICHA CÁRDENAS: Poetic Operations and Trans Ecologies

This talk will discuss cárdenas’ book Poetic Operations as well as her recent work in creating environmental artworks in Augmented Reality. In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cárdenas identifies how trans and gender-non-conforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation.

micha cárdenas, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Performance, Play & Design, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio.

Please register to receive the Zoom-Link: katrin.koeppert@ruhr-universität-bochum.de