A while ago now, The Los Angeles Review (with support from Letras Latinas), commissioned me a piece focusing on the concepts of Joy and Resistance for their Latinex Digital Poetics folio. Camilo Loaiza Bonilla, the issue’s editor, puts it this way: “(i)n 2025, the Latinx community in the U.S. is experiencing fear and uncertainty that … Resistance to
Summer came and left, and we are still here. I just came back from Granada, Spain, where I participated in CULTUR_ALH: encuentro internacional de cultural literaria de la Alhambra, the most incredible literary festival (of my life!). I had the opportunity to teach a beautiful workshop on digital literature and, together with my collaborator, Mario … About Traceroute Poems and Cryptopoetry
Blog updating is a bore, but my participation in these two events around artificial intelligence and virtual reality on campus this past month was not! On Feb 7 I participated on a round table with some excellent colleagues on the challenges and opportunities of teaching language, literature and culture in the age of AI. The … More AI and some VR
Quick update to keep some sort of record of what 2024 has brought me so far! In January I participated at MLA24, and delivered a couple of talks engaging my latest research. In my talk “Trees and Codes” (part of the panel “Anthropocene Cultural Production in Latin America and the Caribbean,” organized by Nicolás Campisi … More AI talks, more trees, more codes…
Last month I had the good fortune of participating in a conversation on the past, future and present of AI together with my colleagues Josh Bloom, professor of Astronomy, and Keanan Joyner, assistant professor of Psychology, led by Marion Fourcade, Director of the Social Science Matrix and professor of Sociology. It was a fascinating multidisciplinary … Letters and Sciences in the Age of AI
The semester ends and it’s been a busy one! Probably the busiest of my career at UC Berkeley. Students sometime ask me what’s that I do, and it is a poem to see their faces when I explain to them the many different roles a college professor has… or is made to have. In any … End of the semester: Thanks! + new talks, and a new art show at the Cervantes Institute in New York City
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
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
Although I am currently in Madrid taking a little breather, this summer has not been without excitement! Let’s catch up a little: The month of May ended with my participation in Mexico City’s Festival El Aleph where I showed my piece, “Perspectiva_el Aleph”, part of a collaborative multimedia performance, “El texto infinito,” designed together with … Summer News, What’s New?