Category: Season 2
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Shu Lea Cheang: The Algorithm of Gender & Sexuality in the Digital Age
Shu Lea Cheang, a multimedia artist who works in the fields of net-based installation, social interface and film production, discusses her work 3X3X6, an immersive, multidimensional mixed media installation that investigates ten cases of imprisonment due to Gender, Sexual, and Racial Nonconformity. Cheang represents Taiwan at the 2019 Venice Biennale, where she uses her work as an…
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Antonia Hernández: Maintenance Pornography
Chilean artist and Ph.D. fellow at Concordia University in Canada Antonia Hernández reflects on her art-based research project “Maintenance Pornography” which explores the less spectacular side of life on the platform. Using a dollhouse as a theater interface and research device, this work looks into domestic and repetitive actions on a sexcam platform Chaturbate, a…
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Audrey Tang: Inside Taiwan’s New Digital Democracy
A civic hacker and Taiwan’s Digital Minister, Audrey Tang is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin. In the public sector, Tang served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee, and led the country’s…
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Paul B. Preciado: Hacking the Binary
A Conversation on Gender, Technology, and Liberation Paul B. Preciado, philosopher, writer, and art curator, reflects upon the issues of gender, technology, and liberation in the contemporary context. An outspoken feminist, Preciado is renowned for challenging the notions of sexuality, liberation, and gender in mass culture and critical theory. Preciado’s book Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs,…