By the late 20th century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics. The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation. In the tradition of Western science and politics. . . the relation between organism and machine has been a border war. The stakes in the border war have been the territories of production, reproduction, and imagination. This chapter is an argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction.-
Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto
AI Video Gen. “Artifice as Aesthetic.” @runwaygen3
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A creative essay I gathered in my explorations of the ethnology of Anon, this was produced in collaboration with Mike Wesh's Digital Ethnography Team at Kansas State. Made using stock footage, live footage - embraces a cut and paste style that allows the creativity of 'nothing' 'no-one' to be featured through the layering and breaking down of identity. We explore the concept of Anon as Woman and the explosion of creative possibilities latent within that designation. Music with approval and collaborative synergy from DJ Spooky...
Shown @ The Detroit New Media Art Show.
Shown @ The Detroit New Media Art Show.
Spa for Bad Mothers
Wanda Vision: Khora's Hex
In “Spa for Bad Mothers”, the artist explores the intersectionality of disability, motherhood, and societal perceptions through a captivating, collage-style video composition. This work draws inspiration from the concepts of Crip doula and Crip couture, reframing narratives around disability and caretaking, highlighting them not as limitations but as multifaceted aspects of identity.
Utilizing an assortment of stock footage, the artist weaves together a symbolic tapestry of scenes, embodying the layered complexities of ‘crip’ motherhood. The title itself, “Spa for Bad Mothers”, is a subversive commentary on societal expectations and judgement often cast on mothers, especially those living with disability.
The video oscillates between moments of tranquillity and chaos, akin to the unpredictable, yet fulfilling journey of motherhood. The spa serves as a metaphor, a space of rejuvenation and self-care, challenging the norms of ‘good’ motherhood, urging viewers to reevaluate their understanding of care, effort, and love, especially when enveloped within the realities of disability.
Utilizing an assortment of stock footage, the artist weaves together a symbolic tapestry of scenes, embodying the layered complexities of ‘crip’ motherhood. The title itself, “Spa for Bad Mothers”, is a subversive commentary on societal expectations and judgement often cast on mothers, especially those living with disability.
The video oscillates between moments of tranquillity and chaos, akin to the unpredictable, yet fulfilling journey of motherhood. The spa serves as a metaphor, a space of rejuvenation and self-care, challenging the norms of ‘good’ motherhood, urging viewers to reevaluate their understanding of care, effort, and love, especially when enveloped within the realities of disability.
visual rhetorical possibilities of gender space/time through the khôra
Some Art. AI Collaborated. Synergistic Styling. Nothing Complete. ................................................Chaos Collection
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This presentation examines Wanda Vision, a Marvel Cinematic 2020 television show, to explore the linkage between aesthetics, grief, trauma, and identity formation through the TV show’s use of an aesthetic of time. Each episode’s style represents a decade in television history and draws out important implications for the analysis of new media and identity performance, which calls for an ethics of love seen through Wanda's explosive grief and the power of her Hex. Gilles Deleuze's theory on the crystal image of time will help analyze how spatial relations are altered through temporal relations and will offer a new theoretical framework that demands an embodied and gendered notion of time/space.
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Cerebral Palsy and Technology
Identity and Access: Technology as a Tool to Disrupt Spatial and Temporal Barriers
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I want to discover ways to help children with disabilities understand themselves and their bodies, improve motor functions through assistive technology, and understand identity. Embrace their agency by celebrating the different perspectives and unique experiences they have. My son is only seven years old and is still making sense of what it means to have a disability. This is an ongoing process that evolves in its complexity as the experiences change. I want to help work with medical researchers to advance technology that makes physical therapy accessible through VR and other technological tools for children and families so that every child access tools to further their physical and emotional health. Virtual tools can be used to create communities for families and children with disabilities.
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Paper Presented in Prague- Loki's Khora-Voids
and the possibility of risky ethics in the disruptive rhythms of covid’s media topography
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This work examines Loki, the 2021 Marvel TV series about the Norse God of mischief who is caught by The Time Variance Authority, run by mysterious ‘time-keepers,' focused on protecting the sacred timeline. The production of the show was paused on March 13, 2020. During that time, the director, cutting the show at home, had a creative impulse to further the love story of Loki with the female Variant of himself. Through analyzing the disruptions in the production alongside the text and its intertexts, I consider how disruption affects the convergence of media, through alterations in the spatio-temporal fabric of human interactions enforced by social distancing and the enduring rhythms of lockdown/confinement experience impacted the production, text, and receptions of the show.
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Megan's Meta-Masters Thesis::::2009
Megan's Meta-Masters Thesis::::
Exploring the original "Metaverse" - Avatar theorized as Nomadic Resistance to singular identity breaking open the future of embodied identity. Applied ethnography, Neo-material feminism with some D&G & the hospitality of Derrida to tech through exploring Second Life trying to create and identify my "self" through my Avatar.
The research focuses on an auto ethnographic exploration of Second Life. Through connecting virtual explorations to personal historical searching for a sense of home, the process of identity and embodiment are explored. Virtual Vision Quest; Second Life and the Digital Self. This image was taken during the research process inside Second Life.
Masters Thesis
https://krex.k-state.edu/items/9b898f0d-8f09-40d7-ac3f-cc93dd924474
The Suicide Girls
tattooing as radical feminist agency
This is a paper published in Contemporary Argumentation and Debate.
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This paper looks at the tattoos of a Suicide Girls and explores radical feminist subjectivity. Tattooing is a form of radical feminist identification. Jaylin, a Suicide Girl, is a part of an alternative genre of feminist actors who perform the pain of beauty in order to upset beauty's hegemonic control on women's bodies. The tattoos of Jaylin speak to the contradictory performances of gendered actors in light of Butler's theories on agency to highlight the ways in which agents subvert imposed subjectivities. Beauty is thus not only a system of control but a means by which the individual can resist power structures through positive articulations of one's agency. |
The Gaze Optics of Time
the relationship of time /space as khora
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The self or matter actually meets perception in the moment, through the body one understands temporarily. Memory is an image created that one can look back to, but it is not the experience itself.
The overlay of passing onto the future is part of the human experience, this happens when our bodies meet perception in movement. We fall to the ground, We run to the plane, we birth the child. The ground is laid beneath the feet, time marches forward with a resonating sound of the past. |
Some of the Material World Things That I Have Done
European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Amazing Courses with incredible faculty and students. I attended 2009 & 2010.
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