Poetic Operations with micha cárdenas
Part of our Fall 2022 Humanities Forum
Thursday, October 20, 2022 · 4 - 5:30 PM
The Latinx and Hispanic Faculty Association presents:
Poetic Operations, Trans Ecologies, and Queer Oceans
micha cárdenas, Assistant Professor, Performance, Play and Design, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Director, Critical Realities Studio, University of California, Santa Cruz
In this talk, artist/theorist micha cárdenas discusses her recent book, Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, which considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival.
Biography: micha cárdenas, PhD, is an artist, and Associate Chair and Associate
Professor of Performance, Play & Design, and Associate Professor of
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations (Duke UP 2022) proposes algorithmic analysis as a method for developing a trans of color poetics. Poetic Operations won the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women's Studies Association. cárdenas's co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. She is currently working on her next academic monograph tentatively titled After Man: Fires, Oceans and Androids,
as well as a multi-disciplinary artwork about climate change's effects
on the oceans and a science fiction novel about the many worlds
interpretation of quantum mechanics. She is a first generation Colombian
American.
Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities
Photo provided by speaker.
Image description: A Latinx woman with short curly hair is smiling and looking off to her right.
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