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
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
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?
*Did I use enough #hashtags in this title? Yesterday I had the honor and pleasure (and fun!) of participating in one of the Studio Visits that Mia Zamora and Alan Levine organize as part of their terrific #netnarr open connected course at Kean University. It was amazing to talk to their students about my #YouTubers … #YouTubers and #Selfiepoetry at #NetNarr
Go, go, go, Chica-go! 2019 started with a quick but adventure-packed trip to Chicago to perform at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Jan 4), as well as participate in a roundtable discussion at MLA (Jan 5), and have the most decadent vegan feast at Matthew Kenny’s Althea (to celebrate my birthday in … Chica-go! Jan 2019: DH and #YouTubers
**please view and listen to poems through a desktop computer, they won’t work on mobile devices** “#SELFIEPOETRY: Fake Art Histories & the Inscription of the Digital Self” is an on going series of e-poems that I’ve recently started to write (although write might not be the right word to use), using the online platform NewHive–which … #SELFIEPOETRY
Last week I attended the international symposium “Reading Wide, Writing Wide in the Digital Age: Perspectives on Transliteratures” organized by the LEETHI group from the Complutense University of Madrid. It was a fantastic event where I had the opportunity to listen to very interesting work engaging electronic literature from very different perspectives, such as Vilashini … If the Future Is Digital, Why Print a Book?
Last week I had the wonderful opportunity of participating in the international symposium, Máquinas de inminencia, organized by UNAM’s lleomin Mexico City. This series of talks was part of their larger electronic literature project, Plataformas de la imaginación: Escenarios de la literatura electrónica (and, shameless plug here: also part of the even larger series of … Teaching E-Lit and DH: Plataformas de la imaginación
UC Berkeley students, beware! This Spring 16 I will be teaching two new courses: 1. A groundbreaking upper-division undergraduate course on e-lit that epitomizes digital humanities – literary analysis alongside basic programming skills and DH tools and methods [Find out more about this e-lit undergraduate course here] …and… 2. An exciting graduate seminar on the … Spring 16 Courses