*Bits.Atoms.Neurons.Genes*
Micro_Gestures at the Edge of Invisibility will be an On/Off line space for MFA artists in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD to explore and present works at the edge of invisibility, at the edge of the digital and biological, at the edge of micro-robotics and nano-art, from in-virtu to in-vivo works and back.
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Dr. Cardenas\'s Blog
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
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The Biotech Industry Organization is meeting in San Diego, June 17-20, 2008 for their annual convention. Biotech brings up so many issues in our community: health care, sustainability, food, war, gentrification, global inequity. What can we do in response that is creative, tactical and inclusive? How can we quickly mobilize our community and build on the infrastructure and networks that we've been building for years? Let's show BIO that they can't come to San Diego for safety from the massive protests that have followed them in so many other cities.
Upcoming planning meetings: Sunday, April 27th, 3:00pm, Sat May 3rd , 3pm @ City Heights Free Skool  [download pdf here]
The Future of Food
@ The City Heights
Free Skool, 7:30pm, Tues, April 22nd, 4246 Wightman St, on the corner of Van Dyke and Wightman in City Heights
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America -- a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology.
Strange Culture
@ Groundwork Books
0323 UCSD New Student Center, 7:30pm, Tues, April 29th
The conflict between policies that support national security and those that protect civil liberties are embodied in the bizarre, terrifying story of Steve Kurtz, an artist, activist and State University of New York at Buffalo professor for whom a personal tragedy led to a Kafkaesque nightmare courtesy of the War on Terror.
Learn more about BIO at http://biodev.org
Check for updates at
http://cityheightsfreeskool.org
and http://bang.calit2.net
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Dr. Cardenas\'s Blog
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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This piece is a project I did for Jordan Crandall's seminar "Imaging the Self", in which I had one week to respond to the Lacanian concept of "The Act". It's a first attempt at creating bioart. It consists of four genetic samples from myself including blood, saliva and mouth tissue, labeled in a ways which represent parts of myself but which are not accepted medical labels. I say it is a sketch because I only had a few days to develop the piece. I also see this as a creative form of resistance to genetic and biological determinism. These are all genetic samples of myself, labeled in various ways that are "impossible" in the present medical/scientific environment.
pre-op transexual - would imply someone who is going to get Gender Confirmation Surgery in the future, but it "impossible" in that it may never occur, referring to the inaccessibility and unknowability of the future. This is also a reflection on my current process of deciding to proceed with medical means of transitioning or not.
multiple subjects single extraction - refers to the conception of the individual self as multiple, but you would never see this reflected in a medical analysis. "Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd... We are no longer ourselves... We have been aided, inspired, multiplied." - Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
genderqueer/transgender age: 31 - in contrast to the way that most medical forms only show two options for sex, male or female, and no choices for gender.
blue moogle - this is a kind of avatar in Second Life which I use, so this is a genetic sample from a Second Life avatar. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Dr. Dominguez's Blog
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
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//please forward and help grow the SWARM!/// Join the action and learn more at http://bang.calit2.net/5yearsofwar/ We are extending the action until March 21st to coincide with calls to “On M20 Shut it Down” from Chicago Action Community and “March on M21″ from SDS. More info at: http://shiftshapers.gnn.tv/blogs/27340/Chicago_On_M20_Shut_It_Down
http://www.unconventionalaction.org/
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Dr. Dominguez's Blog
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
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This Nano-Virtual-Sit-In is being performed on the 5th anniversary of the war on Iraq. We have chosen biotech and nanotech corporations and organizations as our targets, because their science is driven by the war and drives the war. While Monsanto's weapons drop on the people of Colombia, order 81 in Iraq guarantees their market there. Dupont is developing soldier nanotechnologies. The Biotech Industry Organization thought they could meet in San Diego without the massive protests that follow them, but they were wrong. For more info on your local Nanotech corporations, see this map. The Electronic Disturbance Theater and the borderlands Hacklab call for a virtual strike against these war profiteers on March 19th, 2008, in solidarity with the Bay Area Direct Action to Stop the War and actions in the street around the world.
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