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Video of Critical Digital Studies Workshop I recently gave a talk entitled Epistemology of Transition about Becoming Dragon at Ctheorys Critical Digital Studies Workshop in Victoria, Canada. The video is now online! You can also see the rest of the amazing talks from the workshop here. Becoming Dragon: An Epistemology of Transition How are technologies of transformation facilitating new becomings, new modes of learning and new sites of knowledge? The performance Becoming Dragon sought to explore two lines of technology, Multi-User Virtual Environments and biotechnology. Following Anna Munsters call for Transversal Technology Studies, this paper is an attempt to map two transversal lines between these two directions of technology: transition or becoming as a mode of being and mixing of realities, genders and sexualities as a strategy of subversion. The intersections of these lines of technology and transversal strategies of action will be examined as operating within and against two fields of knowledge production, phenomenology and what Ricardo Dominguez has called science of the oppressed. http://www.pactac.net/pactacweb/web-content/videoarchives/cdsw/D1-03-Cardenas.mp4 ////////// Also, come see the 25 minute documentation video of Becoming Dragon in Los Angeles this fri night at the I-5 gallery in the Brewery Artist Colony! MFA Conversations Part II at the I-5 Gallery At I-5 Gallery in the Brewery Artist Colony July 17th, 2009 7PM to 10PM July 17 to September 11, 2009 Artist Talks: July 25 and August 22 2PM to 4PM Conversation: (NOUN) 1. An informal spoken exchange of thoughts and feelings; a familiar talk. 2. Social intercourse; close association. 3. Rare. Close acquaintance, as with an object of study. I-5 Gallery is pleased to announce the second in the MFA Conversations series of shows being offered this summer through the fall of 2009. MFA Conversations Part II continues to explore the abundance of MFA programs in the Southern California area from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Despite their shared geography, these programs represent a range of diverse offerings, foci, students, and work. While such diversity yields richness, it can also have an isolating effect on students from these institutions, who do not have many opportunities to interact in the greater southern California arts community. Curator Marla Koosed explains: MFA Conversations Part II builds on the foundation established by Part Iʼs show and artist conversations and will offer another opportunity for dialogue among the artists and their works. It will also offer visitors to the gallery an exceptional opportunity to see an edited sample of some of the finest work being produced by Southern California MFA Graduates. While most MFA shows are up for a limited period of time; Part II will be up for 2 months. This allows time for the scheduled artist talks, for the participants to discuss their work, each othersʼ work, and to share those conversations with a wider audience, the public. Artist talks are scheduled from 2PM to 4PM on Saturday, July 25th and Saturday, August 22nd. On the heels of Part I, MFA Conversations Part II will show work from 7 schools; Art Center College of Design, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, Otis and Calarts. This show is not a survey or comprehensive of all the graduates: Instead, studio visits for all eligible candidates for this show were conducted, and participants were chosen from that pool. The intimate space of the I-5 Gallery allows for an exhibit like this to function and for the works to interact by the space they cohabit. The MFA Conversations series will conclude with a third show, Professor Dialogues that will feature select works from faculty of the 15 schools and will take place Winter 2010. Stay tuned . I-5 Gallery 2100 North Main Street, Suite A-9 Los Angeles, CA 90031 1-323-342-0717 Press Information For Immediate Release Contact: Nancy Ramirez, Gallery Director Curator: Marla Koosed breweryartw...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre