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I have not been the best at updating my website. So much has happened (great things and some not so wonderful things) since my last entry. I am finally getting a handle on my digital presence (what does that even mean these days?!) because I’m starting a special project with incredible, talented, and gifted people who have agreed to work on helping me re-design and re-envision my new digital home – my website! In the mean time, I will probably…
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Fortunate to be included in this epic anthology. I had the opportunity to write an essay about artist Chelsea Thompto’s work Landmarks for the book. Many brilliant artists and writers in this collection! More information below. “Edited by David Evans Frantz, Christina Linden, and Chris E. Vargas A compelling exploration of trans art, activism, and resistance. Spanning over four centuries, this volume brings together a wide-ranging selection of artworks and artifacts that highlight the under-recognized histories of trans and gender-nonconforming communities. Through the…
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“This publication is a coalition — it brings together experiences of combined action. With a focus on labor organizing within the arts and tech industries, In Poetic Coalition explores the potential of creating alternative networks of education and challenging the material conditions that prevent us from enacting new realities with dignity and security. When we defy existing models for institution-building, what possibilities for gathering can materialize and what kinds of learning and unlearning can we practice together? Released alongside Pioneer Works’ eighth…
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Gary ‘Ice Cold 3000’ Morgan (center) dances with Mud Water Theatre members during rehearsal for ‘Mud Water IV’ at the Bayview Opera House. Created by My-Linh Le, the dance theatre piece will premiere at Dance Mission Theater on Nov. 18. (Juliana Yamada/KQED) I had the pleasure of interviewing artist, dancer, and choreographer My-Linh Le about her latest production, Mud Water IV premiering at Dance Mission Theater. You can read the article published to KQED Art & Culture section here.
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It’s alive! I, truly, have no idea how I was able to pull this massive feat of research, writing, and editing off considering the challenges that arose over the past few years. But it’s here and I can honestly say it scratches the surface and feels like the beginning. It’s definitely the close of one chapter in my life (no pun intended) and a door opening into the next major endeavor that is my artistic and academic career. Please feel…
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During my artist residency at Carnegie Mellon University’s Frank-Ratchye STUDIO For Creative Inquiry (March 2023), I joined AMT Lab staff member Samantha Sonnet as a part of their Let’s Talk podcast series. We talked about the future of AI, identity, tech and culture, tarot reading, and more. It was a delightful conversation and I was incredibly impressed with Samantha and the rest of the production team. You can find Part I and II of our conversation by clicking here along…
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Humbled and honored to be a part of a special series on Sounding Out guest edited by one of my mentors, Johann Diedrick. Please read Professor Jennifer Lynn Stoever’s statement of the series below. In summer 2021, sound artist, engineer, musician, and educator Johann Diedrick convened a panel at the intersection of racial bias, listening, and AI technology at Pioneerworks in Brooklyn, NY. Diedrick, 2021 Mozilla Creative Media award recipient and creator of such works as Dark Matters, is currently working on identifying the origins…
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cyberfeminism? by Mindy Seu (excerpt) “Cyberfeminism cannot be reduced to women and technology. Nor is it about the diffusion of feminism through technology. Combining cyber and feminism was meant as an oxymoron or provocation, a critique of the cyberbabes and fembots that stocked the sci-fi landscapes of the 1980s. The term is self-reflexive: technology is not only the subject of cyberfeminism, but its means of transmission. It’s all about feedback. Rooted as it is by feminism, cyberfeminism is an imperfect umbrella term. The history of feminism is…
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Abstract In this essay, I explore what Gray (2015) calls “the excesses of representation” that reproduce race and gender across proliferating digital platforms. I traverse the digital in tracking and tracing viral inequality, data surveillance, and moderation. Does the term “social media,” as a redundant term, accurately describe the processes of algorithmic amplification by which representational excesses get diffused and made legible? That is to say, do “social media” constitute formative spaces that produce social affect, or do they constitute…
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This past month, I had the pleasure of being in conversation with the Header / Footer Gallery curator Rene Cepeda, NMC Board member Constanza Salazar, and producer Harshini Karunaratne. It was great to be a guest alongside two incredible artists and educators. One of them was Kiley Brandt. She is a video artist and visiting professor of Digital Media at Clemson University 2022-2023. The other wonderful artist was alejandro t. acierto who is also a musician, and curator. We discussed…
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 