ON BOOKS YOU SHOULD HELLA READ The Transreal by Micha Cárdenas Micha will be reading from The Transreal in the RADAR Reading Series at the SF Public Library this coming Tuesday February 7th at 6pm! this event is FREE! YAY! (Micha’s great performance reached my hometown Bogotá!) http://transreal.org/2012/01/16/performing-at-radar-reading-series-in-sf-on-february-7th/ “The book explores the use of multiple simultaneous realities as a medium in contemporary art, including mixed reality, augmented reality and alternate reality approaches. Building on the notion of “trans” from transgender, signifying the crossing of boundaries, the book proposes that transreal aesthetics cross the boundaries created by a proliferation of conceptions of reality that occurred as a result of postmodern theory and emerging technologies” Micha’s work deals with the interplay of technology, gender, sex, immigration and biopolitics, and has been presented at such venues as the 2010 California Biennial, the 2009 Merida Biennial, and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 7th Encuentro in Bogota, Colombia. Her 365-hour performance, “Becoming Dragon,” was staged in Second Life. With Barbara Fornssler she co-authored the book Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs. As a member of the Electronic Disturbance Theater / b.a.n.g lab she helped design the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS device that is designed to help “illegal” immigrants crossing the US-Mexico border find water stations during their journey.

ON BOOKS YOU SHOULD HELLA READ

The Transreal by Micha Cárdenas

Micha will be reading from The Transreal in the RADAR Reading Series at the SF Public Library this coming Tuesday February 7th at 6pm! this event is FREE! YAY!

(Micha’s great performance reached my hometown Bogotá!)

http://transreal.org/2012/01/16/performing-at-radar-reading-series-in-sf-on-february-7th/

“The book explores the use of multiple simultaneous realities as a medium in contemporary art, including mixed reality, augmented reality and alternate reality approaches. Building on the notion of “trans” from transgender, signifying the crossing of boundaries, the book proposes that transreal aesthetics cross the boundaries created by a proliferation of conceptions of reality that occurred as a result of postmodern theory and emerging technologies”

Micha’s work deals with the interplay of technology, gender, sex, immigration and biopolitics, and has been presented at such venues as the 2010 California Biennial, the 2009 Merida Biennial, and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 7th Encuentro in Bogota, Colombia. Her 365-hour performance, “Becoming Dragon,” was staged in Second Life. With Barbara Fornssler she co-authored the book Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs. As a member of the Electronic Disturbance Theater / b.a.n.g lab she helped design the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS device that is designed to help “illegal” immigrants crossing the US-Mexico border find water stations during their journey.

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