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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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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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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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Despite the start to 2022 being rather challenging, it’s been wonderful to reflect on all of the wonderful things that gave me hope this past year. One of the projects I had the pleasure and honor of working on was the development of Logic School (LS). Alongside good friend and collaborator, writer, artist, scholar, and author of Blockchain Chicken Farm, Xiaowei R. Wang (they/them), I had the privilege of bearing witness to the birth and flourishing of their brainchild! As…
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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 and please visit this link to access this episode: https://vimeo.com/538126954https://vimeo.com/538126954 ZTOPIA is a webinar-format talk show where designers are invited to muse, speculate and poke…
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I have been invited to be a panelist for a discussion titled, “Making Art in the Age of #45” as a part of public programming at Kala Institute. Bay Area-based artist Christy Chan invited me and I am constantly humbled and honored for these opportunities. In 2015, I wrote a review of Christy Chan’s performance for online art publication Art Practical. She will re-enact The Long Distance Call at New Normal / Old Normal – a performance and panel discussion.…
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 