Post Digital Media: From the Transreal to Decolonization
Micha Cárdenas Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g. lab/University of Southern California.

This seminar will consider the possibilities for analyzing digital media in order to develop a post-digital media praxis which resonates with Guattari's concept of post-media and Zylinska and Kember's recent book "Life After New Media". The post-digital takes inspiration from movements for decolonization, Femme Science, movements against climate change and for media justice and prison abolition. The talk will discuss my artistic trajectory from Becoming Dragon to the Transborder Immigrant Tool to Local Autonomy Networks. I will demonstrate how the transreal opens onto a broader understanding of post-digital media in a decolonial framework.

Bio: Micha Cardenas is an artist/theorist who works in social practice, wearable electronics and intersectional analysis. She is a PhD student in Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) at University of Southern California and a member of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0. Her project Local Autonomy Networks was selected for the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose and was the subject of her keynote performance at the 2012 Allied Media Conference. Her book The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities was published by Atropos Press in 2012.