| Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media Contributor(s): Cárdenas, Micha (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478015039 ISBN-13: 9781478015031 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $97.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - Transgender Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Art | Digital |
| Dewey: 306.768 |
| LCCN: 2021014441 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (1.08 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies of safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cárdenas identifies how trans and gender nonconforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation. In her analyses of Giuseppe Campuzano's holographic art, Esdras Parra's and Kai Cheng Thom's poetry, Mattie Brice's digital games, Janelle Monáe's music videos, and her own artistic practice, cárdenas shows how algorithmic analysis provides new modes of understanding the complex processes of identity and oppression and the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race. |