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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 