Contents
- 1 Previous Talks, Performances and Exhibitions
- 1.1 2023
- 1.2 July 2023: Magic, Keystrokes and Glitter, Residency in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- 1.3 June 2023: My new artwork in progress, The Probability Engine, received a Center for Coastal Climate Resilience grant
- 1.4 April 2023: Oceanic, Portal is on display at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City from April 29 – August 13, 2023, and the Oceanic, Portal app is released on the app store
- 2 Previous Updates
Previous Talks, Performances and Exhibitions
2023
July 2023: Magic, Keystrokes and Glitter, Residency in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
June 2023: My new artwork in progress, The Probability Engine, received a Center for Coastal Climate Resilience grant
April 2023: Oceanic, Portal is on display at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City from April 29 – August 13, 2023, and the Oceanic, Portal app is released on the app store
March 2023: My debut novel, Atoms Never Touch, will be published by AK Press on October 10, 2023!
2022
October 2022: My book, Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media won the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association, alongside Rana M. Jaleel’s book! I am so overjoyed and humbled to be part of Gloria’s legacy! Join us for the celebration at the conference!
November 2022: I was awarded the Anonymous Was a Woman artist award! I’m so grateful to AWAW, thank you! Also, goodbye Twitter! Get my latest updates on your favorite Mastodon server, follow me at https://eldritch.cafe/@michacard.
October 20th, Poetic Operations at UMBC, Online
November 5th, Panel, On a Trans Relationship with Music, American Studies Association, New Orleans, LA
November 10th, Presidential Session, Expanding Trans Health Care and Reproductive Justice, National Women’s Studies Association, Minneapolis, MN
November 11th, Oceanic: Queering the Ocean, screening at the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival.
June 5th and 25th, screening of “Oceanic: Queering the Ocean” at TIFF in Toronto
September 30, Keynote, Future Bodies symposium of the New Media Caucus at Virginia Tech
December 17, 2021 – Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media is out now on Kindle!! Get it now! (Because of global supply shortages the paper version is coming later)
November 16, 2021 – The introduction to my forthcoming book Poetic Operations is now available on Duke’s website!
October-November 2021 – I’m doing a series of virtual talks about my forthcoming book Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, and recent and upcoming artworks, that you can see online!
October 12th at the ASA, the panel “Trans of Color Poetics and Lesbian Potentiality” from 12-1:45PM EST will include a discussion of Poetic Operations and Rox Samer’s forthcoming book as well!
October 13th I’m speaking at the Augmented Senses symposium on Queer and Feminist AR.
October 21st from 3-5pm PDT I’ll be speaking at the Tarble Arts Center as part of the Force Majeure exhibition, where you can see Sin Sol.
October 28th at 5pm PDT I’ll be in dialog with Susan Stryker at Mills College about Poetic Operations and trans of color poetics. It’s going to be a busy month! I hope to see you at one of these events!
Also, see you at the New School on November 8th speaking about Poetic Operations at “Performance in the Age of Pandemic”!
November 9, 2020 – February 7, 2021 – See Sin Sol projected on the outside of the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco, and online!
April 8, “After Man: Trans Ecologies in Media Art” seminar at the New School
April 14, “Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media” talk at University of Arizona
April 29-30, Errant Voices Conference, University of Chicago
May 6th, 12PM PST, Performance Studies Grad Forum, UC Davis
2021
April 9, Toronto, Ontario
Inter-Arts Exhibition, Tangled Arts & Disability
February 13, New York, NY
Ecofeminisms Panel, The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels, College Art Association Conference
2020
May 23, Montreal, Quebec [postponed]
Keynote, Queerness in Games Conference
November, San Francisco and Online
AFTER LIFE (what remains), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
September, Copenhagen and Online
Alt_Cph Biennial 2020
May 28-30, Chicago, Illinois [postponed]
Errant Voices Conference, University of Chicago
April, Berkeley, California [postponed]
Keynote, Queer Ecologies / Feminist Biologies Workshop
April, Online
Living Room Light Exchange
April, Online
Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium, UCSC
March, Washington DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Women Filmmakers Festival
January, Stanford, California
“Poetic Operations” at Feminist/Queer Colloquium, Stanford Humanities Center
January, Ann Arbor, Michigan
“Taking a Stand”, exhibition at Stamps Gallery
Previous Updates
October 23, 2020 – Sin Sol won the Impact award at Indiecade!
The jurors say, “for bringing awareness to how climate change disproportionately effects immigrants, trans people and disabled people while balancing these issues with guidance from a comforting dog and astute AI, it is our honor to award for Impact Sin Sol / No Sun and its gamemakers micha cárdenas, Marcelo Viana Neto, Adrian Phillips, Kara Stone, Abraham Avnisan, Wynne Greenwood, Dorothy Santos, Morgan Thomas, Zia Puig, and Clara Qin.”
August 7, 2020 – Sin Sol, my new art game, is now available on the App Store! It was created in collaboration with the Critical Realities Studio. Download it, go outside and walk through this story of a trans Latinx AI dealing with a climate apocalypse. Sin Sol uses an intersectional lens to consider how climate change intersects with race, gender, immigration and trauma.
April 15, 2020 – Listen to my first electronic music album at michacardenas.bandcamp.com reflecting on the time of COVID, quarantine feelings and personal loss. Please share!
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March 31, 2021 – My forthcoming book, Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, is available for pre-order! Get it at your favorite bookseller! You can also order desk or exam copies directly from Duke University Press!
June 2020: Watch my keynote at the Vision and Technology: Towards a More Just Future” conference organized by Eyebeam and the International Center for Photography here (starts one hour in). Hear me read excerpts from my forthcoming art game Sin Sol at the Henry museum in Seattle, here.
March 7 2020: My game Redshift and Portalmetal will be on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC! Go see it!
February 2020: The “Trans Futures” special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly that I co-edited with Jian Chen is out! Read it here! https://www.dukeupress.edu/trans-futures
March 2019: Read a review of the prototype of my game Sin Sol, titled “Sin Sol, Forest Memory” in Art in America, “In This Mess Together: Interspecies Entanglements at Henry Art Gallery”! Read a new interview with me in Clot Magazine!
October 2018: The background image on this page is Aura, the main character from my new AR game Sin Sol, drawn by Morgan Thomas and Modeled by Marcelo Viana Neto and Adrian Phillips!
My new #AR game, Sin Sol / No Sun, is coming soon! We’re releasing a preview titled “Sin Sol, Forest Memory”, @henryartgallery museum in Seattle Oct 26-27! Aura, the #trans latina AI hologram will tell players how she survived the #wildfires #climatechange #arkit #art collab w @AbrahamAvnisan @deathclxws
https://twitter.com/michacardenas/status/1053672302133547008
June 2018: It is with deep gratitude and joy that I want to announce that as of July 1st, I will be joining the faculty of UC Santa Cruz in the Art & Design: Games + Playable Media program! I’ll also be working with the Digital Art and New Media MFA and the Film and Digital Media PhD. I will miss my friends & colleagues at UW dearly, and I am so grateful for the friendship, mentorship and support that I experienced here. I am overjoyed to be going to the place where almost all of my biggest inspirations have taught: Gloria Anzaldúa, Angela Davis, Sandy Stone! Thank you so much to all of you who helped me make this new move in my life, you know who you are! <3 <3 <3
May 2018: Heading to NYC to give the keynote at the International Center of Photgraphy’s symposium Vision and Technology: Toward a More a just Future
February 2018: My new article “Monstrous Children of Pregnant Androids”, is out, in a special issue of GLQ about the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. My artworks Pregnancy and #stronger, are currently being exhibited at the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland in the show “Future Love: Desire and Kinship in Hypernature”. My artwork Becoming Dragon is currently on exhibit at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in the exhibition “Beautiful New Worlds: Virtual Realities in Contemporary Art”. The Simpson Center for the Humanities awarded myself and Abraham Avnisan a grant in support of our upcoming AR project, Sin Lluvia, about the intersections of climate change, migration and gender.
July 2017: My artwork Becoming Dragon was reviewed in the Spike art journal and described as “a seminal milestone for artistic engagement in VR.” In June, I presented plenary talks at the International Communication Association Conference in San Diego and at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit.
March 2017: Headed to UMass Amherst to do a talk on “Poetic Operations: Creative Strategies for Resisting Fascism in the US” and a performance of Pregnancy. I’m so grateful to the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies department and Jeanine Ruhsam for inviting me!
October 2016: I am honored to be participating this week in the Comité Stratégico Internacional de Arte, Ciencia y Technologia / International Strategic Committee for Art, Science and Technology in Bogotá, Colombia for the Instituto Distrital de las Artes. Also, see this interview about my work from IAS at UW Bothell “Bulletproof art, technology and social justice” by Andrew Shinn.
September 2016: My new article, “Trans of Color Poetics: Stitching Bodies, Concepts and Algorithms” is available now!
May 2016: I am so honored to be in the new issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly, “Trans/Feminisms” alongside such brilliant scholars. My article is titled “Pregnancy: Reproductive Futures in Trans of Color Feminism”.
March 2016: Announcing the Poetic Operations Collaborative at the University of Washington Bothell! micha cárdenas directs this new design research lab, which applies technological creativity to advance social justice.
October 2015: Watch my talk at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at MoMA R&D. Listen to me being interviewed by Nia King, also on iTunes. Read this amazing response to my work by Nasrin Himada, “The Colour of Spatial Infinity is Red”.
August 2016: You can see my work in August in Berlin at the nGbK, and in Seattle at the Out of Sight Festival, the Center on Contemporary Art and until Summer 2017 at the Henry Art Gallery. Also, my collaborative publication “Queer OS: A User’s Manual”, , is now online!
July 2016: #Stronger, my new project with the POClab, will be exhibited at nGbK in Berlin in the contesting/contexting Sport 2016 exhibition
December 18, 2015 – January 22, 2016: UNSTOPPABLE will be on exhibit at the INCA Institute in Seattle! Opening Friday, December 18, 7:30pm To exhibit or host this project, send me a message by using the contact form.