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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

cárdenas, micha, 1977- author.

Series:

Asterisk (Duke University Press)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans artists.

Trans people's writings.

Gender identity in art.

Minority artists.

Minority authors.

Digital media.

Transgender artists.

Transgender people's writings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One. Trans of Color Poetics

Two. The Decolonial Cut

Three. The Shift

Four. The Experience of Shifting

Five. The Stitch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cárdenas, Micha, 1977- Poetic operations

ISBN:

9781478015031

1478015039

9781478017653

1478017651

9781478022275

1478022272

OCLC:

1264174800