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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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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. Santos, Axel Stockburger, Anna Witt Hosted and organised by: Olena Newkryta, Simona Obholzer / The Golden Pixel Cooperative with support from Andrea Steves *The symposium…
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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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Event date and time: Friday, May 22, 2020 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 pm PST / 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT REGISTER HERE For this afternoon Open Hours, Eyebeam welcomes Eyebeam Alum and writer, Joanne McNeil in conversation with artist, writer, and educator, Dorothy R. Santos who will lead a discussion diving into McNeil’s new book, Lurking: How a Person Became a User released this year by MCD. Lurking: How a Person Became a User is available for purchase…
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About Reclaiming the Future “What is at stake for the human animal in this critical moment in our evolution? Will we survive this “technological adolescence”? How can we reclaim optimism in the face of future technology? On August 17, 2019, a group of creative thinkers and makers will assemble to consider these questions in a radical new conversation format. Unfiltered. Unmoderated. A Long Conversation is a relay of two-person dialogues for a set period of time, unified by a common…
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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 bringing together a series of works across media that consider all sides of this technology. From the historic use in war to the representations in…
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SAN FRANCISCO — As fleets of shuttle buses take employees to their respective Silicon Valley campuses, resentment and tension grows in the Bay Area. Last week, protesters blocked one such Google bus in an effort to draw attention to the widening gap between the technology industry and the communities it affects; a union organizer impersonated a tech worker to incite dialogue through performative gesture. Within days, further demonization of tech figures, like the entrepreneur Greg Gopman — guilty of making crassly disparaging remarks about…
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Performance Piece by artist Ken Becker from Dorothy Santos on Vimeo. One of your brilliant classmates hacks open a sculptural work during a performance piece. I will be posting more pictures this weekend but one of the graduate wide electives I took this past semester was Sound, Music, and Technology. Ken was in my class and when he proposed his project, it was difficult for me to envision it other than him destroying something he built. Then, the night of…
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A strangeness abounds when people are asked to theorize and elucidate something so untethered and rhizomatic as the Internet. At its basic structure, networks connect us to the images, data and knowledge we draw upon every day. Yet what is at the heart of these connections and what separates or integrates our In Real Life (IRL) and digital personas? This past weekend, the annual Theorizing the Web conference took place in New York’s bustling Midtown district at the City University…
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On San Francisco’s bustling, highly trafficked Market Street, the organization Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), is changing the face of arts and technology in a significant and dramatic way. Seeing a lack of representation in the digital arts movement accompanied by a profound interest in creating a space where such art could be seen, founder and Executive Director Josette Melchor created the nonprofit in 2009 in the midst of a financial crisis. Despite the downturn in the economy,…
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 