Last Monday, the Arts Research Center had the most beautiful party for the launch of Emerge/ncy, a chapbook presenting the work of the 2020 Poetry and the Senses Fellows, and my very dear friends, Menat Allah El Attma, Nathalie Khankin, Rusty Morrison, Gracia Mwamba, Beth Piatote, Jared Robinson, Jennif(f)er Tamayo (and myself). It was a … Emerge/ncy: a new poetry chapbook
Have you ever wondered what that might mean? I am not truly sure, but the new book edited by Isabel Navas Ocaña and Dolores Romero, Ciberfeminismos, tecnotextualidades y transgéneros: Literatura digital en español escrita por mujeres, attempts a few approaches (and some definitions). While casting a wide net around these topics, the book focuses on … Cyberfeminisms
Now that blogs and newsletters are back in style (and now that the storm has stopped), I feel compelled to update this blog with some news of what I have been up to lately so… Let’s see… Last December I published a new article, “Literatura digital para el fin del mundo: ecología y algoritmos en … End of 22, Beginning of 23: Storm, Strike, Script
I am honored to contribute a new chapter to the collective volume Escrituras hispánicas desde el exocanon (2022) edited by Daniel Escandell, where I discuss some of my current troubles with the dangerous environmental impact of digital technologies. In my chapter “Materialidad digital, algoritmos y otras abstracciones modernas” (“Digital Materiality, Algorithms, and Other Modern Abstractions”) … More on Digital Materiality: A New Publication
I am honored and humbled to be part of the ELC (Vol.4) with my project The Offline Website Project! The Electronic Literature Collections are arguably the most influential e-lit anthologies in the world, capturing the ethos of a time (as well as the state of the discipline worldwide), and although all previous volumes have been … TOWP is in the Electronic Literature Collection! (Vol. 4)
Remember those early days back in the Spring of 2020 when the world stopped? When we were paralyzed by fear and policy? A new documentary, COVID E-LIT: Digital Art During the Pandemic, produced by Anna Nacher, Søren Bro Pold, Scott Rettberg and Ashleigh Steele, follows sixteen digital artists’ experiences of the early COVID-19 pandemic … COVID E-LIT, a new documentary
10 days into the new year and it feels like 2020 is still dragging… (2022 is pronounced “twenty twenty too” for a reason). But not all is bad news, here’s a lovely new poem I built using Qualtrics to cheer you up: Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut It was published … Happy New Year! Here’s a New Poem
Enter Corporate Poetry: I am thrilled to share this new article on my Corporate Poetry project that just got published in Texts of Discomfort (Carnegie Mellon ETC Press, 2021), edited by María Cecilia Reyes and James Pope. In their own words: Can discomfort be blissful? This volume presents an in-depth reflection of the selected artworks … On bodies, surveys, virus and rooms…
This Fall semester has been particularly quiet in terms of work, yet substantially louder in terms of life. Oh, the noise a new baby makes! Still, I didn’t want to let too much time pass without a little update, because I did participate in a couple exciting art projects. My interactive poem “Potential Ideas and … A new show, a new talk, and a new life
With what I hope is the-last-semester-of-remote-teaching coming to an end, I’ve finally found a little time to share some highlights of the past few months. First and foremost, I have really enjoyed teaching an undergraduate course on the Long Spanish Transition to Democracy where we explored how Spanish sensibilities and citizens’ sense of politics have … More shows, more talks, and a wonderful undergrad class to end the last semester of the end of the world