Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about New Media on Friday 9th March

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• Queer Viral Practices in New Media Art and Theory

  by Micha Cardenas, Pinar Yoldas and Zach Blas

  In this panel, we will focus on queer new media art and philosophy that uses and intervenes into the viral to form a radical politics of revolt and utopia. Viral will be engaged with technically, philosophically, artistically, biologically, and effectively. Our aim is to show that while viral rhetoric and discourses have marginalized and controlled queer populations, the viral remains an allusive, volatile potential that can be experimented with toward creating new queer politics and worlds. Cárdenas and Mehrmand will discuss their current collaboration virus.cirus, an episodic series of performances using wearable electronics and live audio to bridge virtual and physical spaces that explores queer futures of latex sexuality amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria and DIY medicine. Blas will speak on new works from his ongoing Queer Technologies project that attempt to formulate a viral aesthetics based on a replicating difference of never-being-the-sameness against capital’s own modulating structure.

  • Art
  • New Media
  • Philosophy
  • Viral Marketing

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Friday 9th March

  In Room 10AB, Austin Convention Center

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• 20x2

  A SXSW Interactive tradition! Amazing, poignant, moving, and funny 2-minute presentations by 20 of new media's most creative minds.

  • creative
  • New Media

  At 8:00pm to 10:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Skinny's Ballroom