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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 17, 2023 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
  \n Room UC140 \n University College \n 15 King's College Circle \n\nSpeak
 ers \nVarious \n\nDescription: \nQueer Directions is an annual symposium a
 ddressing the most pressing issues in queer and sexuality studies and rela
 ted communities that is free to the public. This year's theme is Queer & T
 rans Visions, with speakers Bo Ruberg, Shu Lea Cheang, micha cárdenas,
  and Ajamu X. This symposium brings together filmmakers, photographers, 
 performance artists, scholars, and activists whose work centers on quest
 ions of visibility, invisibility, opacity, visual aesthetic practices,
  and new methods of seeing, being, and doing queer and trans art and sch
 olarship.This event will take place in person at 15 King's College Circle\
 , Room 140. ASL will be provided.-Dr. Bo Ruberg (they/them) is an associat
 e professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University 
 of California, Irvine and the co-editor of the Journal of Cinema and Medi
 a Studies. Their research explores gender and sexuality in digital media a
 nd digital cultures. They are the author of three monographs: Video Games 
 Have Always Been Queer (NYU Press, 2019), The Queer Games Avant-Garde: H
 ow LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (2020), an
 d Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press,
  2022). They are also the co-editor of Queer Game Studies (University of M
 innesota Press, 2017) and Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture 
 (MIT Press, 2023).Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker whose work ai
 ms to re-envision genders, genres, and operating structures. Her genre b
 ending gender hacking practices challenge the existing operating mechanism
 s and the boundaries imposed on society, geography, politics, and econo
 mic structures. As a net art pioneer, her BRANDON (1998 - 99) was the fir
 st web art commissioned and collected by New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim 
 Museum. Her feature length films, FRESH KILL(1994), I.K.U. (2000) and FL
 UIDø (2017), respectively termed ecocybernoia, sci-fi cyberpunk, and sc
 i-fi cypherpunk, seek to define a genre of new queer sci-fi cinema. Chean
 g represented Taiwan with 3x3x6, a mixed media installation at Venice Bie
 nnale 2019. She is releasing her 4th feature film, UKI, a SciFi Viral Al
 t-Reality cinema in 2023.micha cárdenas, PhD, is an artist, and Associa
 te Chair and Associate Professor of Performance, Play & Design, and Asso
 ciate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, at the University of C
 alifornia, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. 
 Her book Poetic Operations (Duke UP 2022)proposes algorithmic analysis as 
 a method for developing a trans of color poetics. Poetic Operations won th
 e Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Ass
 ociation. She is co-editor of the book series Queer/Trans/Digital at NYU P
 ress, with Amanda Philips and Bo Ruberg. cárdenas’s co-authored book The 
 Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) was published
  by Atropos Press. She is currently working on her next academic monograph
  tentatively titled After Man: Fires, Oceans and Androids, as well as a 
 multi-disciplinary artwork about climate change’s effects on the oceans an
 d a science fiction novel about the many worlds interpretation of quantum 
 mechanics. She is a first generation Colombian American.Ajamu X is an accl
 aimed fine art studio based and darkroom led photographic artist working i
 n the UK. His work, theoretical provocations, and aesthetics unapologeti
 cally celebrate black queer bodies, the erotic, sex, desire and the pol
 itics of pleasure. His black and white images also pose imagination, fict
 ion, and play in opposition to the constant framing of black queer bodies
  and nuanced lived experiences from within a sociological framework. His w
 ork has been shown in many prestigious museums, galleries and alternative
  spaces around the world and has been published in a wide variety of publi
 cations and critical journals. In 2022 he co-founded Spit and Spider Press
  and received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society o
 f Great Britain. \n\nContact Information: \n Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sex
 ual Diversity Studies sexual.diversity@utoronto.ca Mark S. Bonham Centre f
 or Sexual Diversity Studies \n\nSponsors \nMark S. Bonham Centre for Sexua
 l Diversity Studies \n15 King's College Circle \n\nCategories \n Symposium
  \n\nAudiences \n All
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LOCATION:15 King's College Circle
SUMMARY:Queer Directions Symposium: Queer & Trans Visions
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