Research Catalog

Title

Poetic operations : trans of color art in digital media / micha cárdenas.

Author

cárdenas, micha, 1977-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

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Details

Description

xiii, 224 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"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, ca̹rdenas 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"--

Series Statement

Asterisk: Gender, Trans-, and All That Comes After

Uniform Title

Asterisk (Duke University Press)

Subject

• Transgender artists
• Transgender people's writings
• Gender identity in art
• Minority artists
• Minority authors
• Digital media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Algorithmic Analysis -- Trans of Color Poetics -- The Decolonial Cut -- The Shift -- The Experience of Shifting -- The Stitch -- Visionary Trans of Color Futures.

Call Number

JQE 22-710

ISBN

• 9781478015031
• 1478015039
• 9781478017653
• 1478017651

LCCN

2021014441

OCLC

1264174800

Author

cárdenas, micha, 1977- author.

Title

Poetic operations : trans of color art in digital media / micha cárdenas.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Asterisk: Gender, Trans-, and All That Comes After

Asterisk (Duke University Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Cárdenas, Micha, 1977- Poetic operations Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478022275 (DLC) 2021014442

Research Call Number

JQE 22-710