*Bits.Atoms.Neurons.Genes* Micro_Gestures at the Edge of Invisibility will be an On/Off line space for MFA artists in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD to explore and present works at the edge of invisibility, at the edge of the digital and biological, at the edge of micro-robotics and nano-art, from in-virtu to in-vivo works and back.
Ice ICE/Proposition 8 E-Action: A 3 Day Virtual Sit-In! NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008
JOIN THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN FOR LOVE! JOIN OUR LOVE-IN!!
VALUE FAMILY! STOP THE CRIMMIGATION! HALT LOVE’S LEGISLATION!
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
FROM NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008
STOP THE LITERAL AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANT AND LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) FAMILIES!
STOP THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE SO-CALLED UNDOCUMENTED AND NON-NORMATIVE!
STOP THE DETENTION ABUSES OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES BY ICE! STOP THE REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE SAME-SEX KITH AND KIN!
JOIN A 3 DAY GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ICE AND PRO-CALIFORNIA PROPOSTION 8 GROUPS!
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
The Virtual Sit-In On ICE and Pro-8 Groups
STARTS Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
ENDS Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
In the past few years we have witnessed and felt the sting of the anti-immigrant movement in the United States, its violent targeting and criminalization of immigrants. The results: heightened levels of fear among immigrants, escalated racialized violence perpetrated by civilians against immigrant communities, and increased levels of detention and imprisonment of migrants by local, state, and federal agencies. These phenomena either performed or encouraged by the powers-that-be have contributed to the massive separation of immigrant family across time-space. Simultaneously in the past few years we have witnessed the effects of other concerted attacks on the integrity of love’s many manifestations—a rolling back of legislation that begins to recognize same-sex family structures. The results: an embargo on family and love, blocked adoptions, healthcare, unions. Whether one supports gay marriage or not in the theoretical, the ongoing perpetuation of inequalities presents a clear-cut case of human rights abuse. Queers of color know that attacks on immigrant and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer) families are not distinct, but instead are clearly linked examples of the U.S. right-wing’s “acts of transfer.” “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender immigrants and their families are uniquely vulnerable,” says Rachel B. Tiven, Immigration Equality Executive Director, “detaining more immigrants, with less judicial review, will put the lives of innocent people at risk.” Don’t cede the category of “family”! Realize political kinships and affinities! Bypass EITHER/OR politics, embrace BOTH/AND coalitions!
This call for a virtual sit-in represents a two-pronged attempt to gerrymander solidarity against the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security established to allegedly guard national security by targeting “criminals” and “terrorists,” and the actions of right-wing organizations which devalue and terrorize families in their attempts to define the category of Family in the narrowest terms imaginable. Constructions of immigrant and queer families as violable are rooted in long histories of aggression against humanity; which have and continue to establish hierarchies of personhood. The forced biological reproduction of slaves; the enforcement of boarding schools for indigenous children; the banned migration of Asians beginning in the late 19th century and ending in the mid 20th century; massive deportations during the 1930s and again in the 1950s; systemic legislative and juridical “privileges of unknowing” against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—these American (sic) projects are but a few examples of the continuous violation of “family values” in the United States. The contemporary separation of immigrant and queer families resulting from state practices to police internal and external borders is a piece with the long trajectory of violence inflicted on so-called non-normative families. Join this nonviolent direct action against ICE and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups to speak out against BOTH recent atrocities against families AND persistent violence(s) exacted on peoples with histories.
1] Senate Immigration Bill Removes Added Burden on Same-Sex Couples Sought by House http://www.hrc.org/1462.htm
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
STARTS Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
ENDS Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
City Lights Booksellers& Publishersin conjunction with the Consulate General of France in San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute Film Department present
TRAJECTORIES OF THE
CATASTROPHIC
A symposium exploring the ideas and arguments put forth in the theoretical works of Paul Virilio. From the sweeping effects of technology on culture to the history of the City as war-machine, internationally acclaimed artists and scholars will critically examine the ideas of one of the foremost theorists of the information age.
Lectures, film screenings, and roundtable discussions spanning over a two day period featuring:
Dominic Angerame, Jordan Crandall, James Der Derian, Ricardo Dominguez, Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, Sylvère Lotringer, Timothy Murray, Steve Redhead, John Rodgers, DJ Spooky, and Stelarc
Dates & Locations:
Friday, October 24, 2008
-San Francisco Art Institute Auditorium, 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, 7:00 pm
We're a bit late on this story... but Visual Arts professor Ricardo Dominguez (in blue at left) had a unique experience in July, when he portrayed Cesar Chavez in a re-enactment of a landmark speech by the Chicano leader. It was the fourth event of the Port Huron Project, a series of re-enactments organized by artist Mark Tribe, part of Creative Time's 2008 public art initiative, "Democracy in America: The National Campaign". It was held in Exposition Park in South L.A., site of the original speech.
According to LosAngeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, "At the end of Dominguez's second performance of the Chavez speech, the crowd spontaneously erupted into a loud chant of "Si! Se puede! Si! Se puede!" Under the circumstances, it resonated as an Obama moment." Dominguez was also featured in a preview in the LA Times. The event was filmed and should be available shortly on YouTube and blip.tv. The program will also play on the MTV Jumbotron in New York's Times Square in mid-September.
An article by Sophie Le-Phat Ho reflects on the Transborder Immigrant Tool , an audacious and militant project developed by a group of artists from the electronic resistance movement out of the University of California's Calit2 Lab in San Diego...
abstract The Transborder Immigrant Tool is being developed at the Calit2 Lab of UCSD (University of California, San Diego) by a team of electronic disturbance artists composed of Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas and Jason Najarro . The project aims to reduce the number of deaths at the US/Mexico border by providing a device that migrants can use to locate resources, such as water caches and safety beacons, as well as situate themselves in the desert. The author explores the tool's intervention in bringing together questions of artistic value and humanitarian value in the current landscape of mobile and locative media art.
résumé Un groupe d'artistes de résistance électronique du Calit2 Lab à UCSD (University of California, San Diego), composé de Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas et Jason Najarro, développe en ce moment le “Transborder Immigrant Tool”. Ce projet vise à réduire le nombre de morts à la frontière mexico-américaine par le biais d'un appareil que les immigrants pourront utiliser afin de repérer des lieux sécuritaires ou de l'eau, ainsi que d'être en mesure de se situer eux-mêmes dans le désert. L'auteur explore l'intervention que l'outil provoque en rapprochant la question de la valeur artistique avec celle de la valeur humanitaire dans le paysage actuel de l'art médiatique mobile et locatif.
