Author: Dorothy R. Santos

• Mediating the Social: The Excesses of Racial Representation within (Trans)formative Digital Space published to Platform Journal

  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…

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 5, 2023

• Header Footer Gallery Presents: Being a POC in The Art World, Episode 3

  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…

  Dorothy R. Santos

  July 31, 2022

• Critical Coding Cookbook

  It was a joy and delight putting this “recipe” together for the Critical Coding Cookbook. Although I consider myself a perpetual novice at creative coding and programming, one of the most memorable parts of learning how to code was when I first used Processing back, sometime in 2010 (I think!) to create patterns and shapes.…

  Dorothy R. Santos

  July 18, 2022

• Screen Matters – The Screen as a Place of Work

  Please check out the online symposium Screen Matters – The Screen As A Place Of Work! It is pre-recorded and will be streamed daily from 07:00 – 10:15 pm on GPC Online Screen (http://streaming.goldenpixelcoop.com/) With contributions by:Ingrid Burrington, Anna Caterina Dalmasso, Eva and Franco Mattes, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Elisa Giardina Papa, Laure Prouvost, Dorothy R.…

  Dorothy R. Santos

  March 19, 2022

• Into the Country of Our Kitchen: An Anthology

  Into the Country of Our Kitchen: An Anthology from the Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab of 2021 From Empanadas, to Marigolds, Post-Colonial Cha and Baptisms, join us for this reading featuring emerging US-based writers from the 2021 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL), presented by Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian Art Museum. The 2021 Into the Country of Our Kitchen anthology is…

  Dorothy R. Santos

  February 8, 2022

• YBCA10 Podcast

  You can also access the YBCA10 podcast episode here.

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 16, 2022