Category: arts and technology

• 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

• 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 […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  April 17, 2021

• 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 […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  July 6, 2018

• 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 […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 11, 2015

• 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 […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  September 22, 2014