Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D.

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Category: arts and technology

  • 2024-2026 Just Tech Fellowship

    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 […]

    7/31/2025

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    Art, Art and Technology, Art Writing and Criticism, arts and technology, Creative Coding | Programming, Digital Art, interactive art, Internet Art, Observations, Visual Arts, Writing Practice

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    Art / creative coding / eileen isagon skyers / fellowship / just-tech / programming / research / sfpc / social-science-research-council / software for artists / technology

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  • Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects

    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 […]

    3/1/2024

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    Art, Art and Technology, Art Writing and Criticism, arts and technology, Creative Coding | Programming, Digital Art, interactive art, Internet Art, Observations, Visual Arts, Writing Practice

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    creative coding / eileen isagon skyers / programming / sfpc / software for artists

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  • The Cyborg’s Prosody, or Speech AI and the Displacement of Feeling on Sounding Out

    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 […]

    7/6/2023

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    arts and technology, Culture Criticism, Theory, Writing Practice

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    art practice / assistive tech / digital art / jennifer lynn stoever / johann diedrick / new media / sonic futures / Surveillance / the cyborg's prosody / voice recognition

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  • #CyberfeminismIndex by Mindy Seu in conversation with Dorothy R. Santos, A.M. Darke, Cesia Domínguez López, and Anika Sarin organized by Cal State LA Department of Art and Southland Institute

    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 […]

    4/18/2023

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    arts and technology, Culture Criticism, Observations

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    cyberfeminism / digital culture / feminism / indexicality / media

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  • 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 […]

    1/5/2023

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    arts and technology, Culture Criticism, Observations

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    darius kazemi / digital culture / media / social media / xin xin

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  • 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 […]

    7/31/2022

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    Art, Art and Technology, Art Writing and Criticism, arts and technology, Culture Criticism, Curatorial Practice, Observations, Visual Arts, Writing Practice

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    conversation / dialogue / digital art / header footer gallery / n-media / new media

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  • Anthropofagia, Forensic Architecture and the Ethos of Consent w/ Carmen Aguilar y Wedge & Dorothy Santos

    April 8, 2021 episode for z\topia Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Co-founder, Creative and Experience Designer at Hyphen-Labs and I were guests on z\topia on April 8, 2021. Highlighted Articles:⦿ Anthropofagia: We’re All Eating Each Other⦿ Walled Unwalled (2018) by Lawrence Abu Hamdan⦿ ANTARCTICA (2019) by Syrus Marcus Ware⦿ TogetherNet by xin xin Learn more below […]

    4/17/2021

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    Art and Technology, arts and technology, conceptual art, Culture Criticism, Video, Visual Arts

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    anthropofagia / carmen aguilar y wedge / design futures initiatives / ztopia

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  • PANEL DISCUSSION at the Museum of the African Diaspora | Blockchain and the New Media Art Market

    When: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 | Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT Purchase tickets for this event here. The growing influence of new media in the contemporary art market has led to new forms of selling and collecting digital art. From Blockchain startups to galleries selling artwork as digital editions, digital downloads, or art as […]

    7/6/2018

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    Art, arts and technology

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  • The American Gun Show

    Call to Artists: American Gun Show Open call for artwork: Few technologies have had the impact on civilization that the gun has had. With a storied history of a millennium and having been woven into American culture, it is not surprising that it is as contentious as it is empowering. Dorothy Santos and James Morgan are […]

    8/11/2015

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    Art, arts and technology, Conceptual, conceptual art, Culture Criticism, Observations, Post Modernism, Sculpture, Visual Arts

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    Art / bay area / curatorial statement / guns / san jose / technology

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  • Speaking on a panel at Open City Art City at YBCA! #opencities2025

      FREE with RSVP: http://opencityartcity.tumblr.com/ Open City/Art City Festival October 4, 2014 YBCA, 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94113 11am – 8pm For those who want the specific details of the panel I will be participating on, here you go! Artful Models: Creative Solutions to Our Changing Industry (YAAW Lounge at 7:00 PM) Moderated by […]

    9/22/2014

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    Art and Technology, Art Influences, Art Writing and Criticism, Artist’s Studio, arts and technology, Interactive / Participatory Art, Observations

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    #opencities2025 / art city / bay area / institute for the future / open cities / San Francisco / YBCA

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