Tijuana

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Saturday December 19
6 to 8 pm.
@ Protolab

Telefono: (0152 - 664) 686 1610 y 686 6318

Dirección: Blvd. Agua Caliente # 10535
Edificio Gallegos  Planta Baja.
Fracc. Aviación, Tijuana, B.C. Mexico.
C.P.22014

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Elle Mehrmand

is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses the body, electronics, video, photography, sound and installation within her works. She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music collective who create dark, electronic, middle eastern, rhythmic jazz rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, and received her BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. Elle has received grants from UCIRA and Fine Arts Affiliates. She is a researcher at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at UCSD. Her performances have been shown in Los Angeles, Tijuana, Montreal, Dublin, San Diego, Long Beach, San Fransisco and Bogotá, Colombia.

sextrument.  <2008>  performance/video
A live durational performance where I masturbated for one hour, with a Nintendo Wii remote controller.  The accelerometer sensor in the Wii-mote measured the speed and intensity of my hand movement, which sent messages to MaxMSP altering the sound of my voice, which was then projected through speakers outside of the room.  Behind a locked door, I invited viewers to look through the peephole, seeing only the bottom of my breasts, down to the top of my pubic line, revealing the in-between.

http://visarts.ucsd.edu/something-happening/?p=177
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Zach Blas

www.zachblas.info
is an artist and writer working at the intersections of networked media, queerness, and the political. he is particularly interested in activist art that addresses the methods and styles in which technologies, bodies, and capital impact, reconstitute, and proliferate assemblages of sexuality, gender, and knowledge, alongside the potentials and possibilities of reshaping these assemblages as well as reconfiguring un/human modes of agency and resistance. zach is a phd student in literature & information science + information studies at duke university. he holds a mfa from the design | media arts department at the university of california los angeles, a post-baccalaureate certificate from the school of the art institute of chicago in the art and technology studies department, and a bachelor of science from boston university in film and philosophy.”

zach’s current project, Queer Technologies, is an organization that develops applications and situations for queer intervention and social formation. Queer Technologies produces flows of resistance within larger spheres of capitalist structurations, “identifying” and “disidentiying” with these spheres in tandem. All pieces are designed as product, artwork, and political tool, materialized through an industrial manufacturing process so that they may be disseminated widely. QT products include transCoder, a queer programming anti-language; ENgenderingGenderChangers, a “solution” to Gender Adapters’ male/female binary; Gay Bombs, a technical manual manifesto that outlines a “how to” of queer networked activism; and GRID, a mapping application used to track the dissemination of QT products and map the “battle plans” for Queer Technologies to more thoroughly infect networks of capital. Queer Technologies’ products are often displayed and deployed at the Disingenuous Bar, which offers a heterotopic space for political support for “technical” problems. QT products are also shop-dropped in various consumer electronics stores, such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack, and Target. (www.queertechnologies.info)

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Christopher Head
gubbish.org

Christopher Head is a MFA candidate at the University of California San Diego. His practice is focused on the application of experimental technologies and art to address issues at the intersection between virtual, public, and social spaces. Christopher’s work often engages computer games, data visualization, and issues of software production.

Christopher’s current project and upcoming thesis exhibition (tentatively titled “mmmo”), is an attempt to create a software framework for exploring alternative narrative forms in interactive digital media. “mmmo” will be released first as a pair of free/libre and open-source software libraries, with a follow-up implementation as a development example and use-case.

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