Queer Technologies

Derivative Bomb at Abandon Normal Devices

queertech — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:13:10 +0000

We’ll be debuting our new work Derivative Bomb (Gay Bomb Variation #1) today in Manchester as part of the group exhibition called What have I done to (de)serve this?, which is part of the Abandon Normal Devices festival. Come check it out if you’re in town!

SXSW Interactive

queertech — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:38:46 +0000

On March 9th, Micha Cárdenas, Pinar Yoldas, and Queer Technologies will give presentations on the Queer Viral Practices panel at South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, TX.

Thanks to Rhizome.org for recommending our panel!

Queer Viral Practices in New Media Art and Theory

#sxsw #queerviral

In this panel, we will focus on queer new media art and philosophy that uses and intervenes into the viral to form a radical politics of revolt and utopia. Viral will be engaged with technically, philosophically, artistically, biologically, and effectively. Our aim is to show that while viral rhetoric and discourses have marginalized and controlled queer populations, the viral remains an allusive, volatile potential that can be experimented with toward creating new queer politics and worlds. Cárdenas and Mehrmand will discuss their current collaboration virus.cirus, an episodic series of performances using wearable electronics and live audio to bridge virtual and physical spaces that explores queer futures of latex sexuality amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria and DIY medicine. Blas will speak on new works from his ongoing Queer Technologies project that attempt to formulate a viral aesthetics based on a replicating difference of never-being-the-sameness against capital’s own modulating structure.

Artefact Festival

queertech — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:54:06 +0000

transCoder, our queer programming anti-language, will be featured in Constant‘s project for The Social Contract, Artefact Festival, at the STUK arts centre in Leuven, Belgium.

Not only people but also bots, search engines and spiders abide by laws and agreements. Whether we email, surf or chat, rules and regulations have an effect on our daily lives and on the way we move in public space. Which social behavior do governments, companies and regulators project on machines? What is the social contract written into standards and technological infrastructure?

In Connection Protocols, the Brussels-based arts lab Constant gathers research material on how people, machines and environments connect with each other. This collage of artworks, notes, manuals, instructions, images and texts can be read as a publication that will be edited ‘live’ during the festival period. With this living collection that moves along the stairs of STUK, Constant tries to balance ‘soft’ factors such as attraction, affection, similarity and curiosity with the prescriptive and indisputable character of formatting, contracts and ‘terms of use’ documents.

transmediale: in/compatible

queertech — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:44:08 +0000

QT will be at the 2012 transmediale festival this year, whose theme is in/compatible. We’ll be presenting our project-in-development Fag Face / Facial Weaponization Suite at the resource methods panel on Tuesday, February 1, beginning at 1030am. We’ll also be giving a general talk on our work at the Commercialising Eros panel on February 4, starting at 130pm, with Jacob Appelbaum, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Aliya Rakhmetova, and Gaia Novati.

A full schedule is available here. Videos of the presentations should be available on the transmediale resource site soon.

transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible trailer from transmediale on Vimeo.

ISEA 2011 in Istanbul

queertech — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:48:43 +0000

On September 20th, Queer Technologies will present on the Queer Viralities: Resistant Practices in New Media Art and Philosophy panel with Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Istanbul.

Queer Viralities: Resistant Practices in New Media Art and Philosophy

In this panel, we will focus on queer new media art and philosophy that uses and intervenes into the viral to form a radical politics of revolt and utopia. The viral will be engaged with technically, philosophically, artistically, biologically, and affectively.

The intensification and proliferation of global connectivity has opened digital networked culture to universal contagion. Indeed, it has been argued we now live in a viral ecology under the sign of viral capitalism. As viralities spread into various realms of culture, new media artists explore the viral as that which has the ability to control and restrict as well as distribute and liberate.

Our current viral ecology has opened up new tactics of resistance for various artists, activists, and cultural producers. In this panel, we will focus on queer new media art and philosophy that uses and intervenes into the viral to form a radical politics of revolt and utopia. The viral will be engaged with technically, philosophically, artistically, biologically, and affectively. Our aim is to show that while viral rhetoric and discourses have marginalized and controlled queer populations, the viral remains an allusive, volatile potential that can be experimented with toward creating new queer politics and worlds.

Blas, Cárdenas, and Mehrmand will all give theoretical artist talks.

Cárdenas and Mehrmand will discuss their current collaboration virus.cirus, an episodic series of performances using wearable electronics and live audio to bridge virtual and physical spaces that explores queer futures of latex sexuality amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria and DIY medicine. Blas will speak on new works from his ongoing Queer Technologies project that attempt to formulate a viral aesthetics based on a replicating difference of never-being-the-sameness against capital’s own modulating structure.

Queer Technologies Web Launch

queertech — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:02:36 +0000

Welcome to our new site.