Adjacent Conference #1

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You are (check one): Stateless / A liar

Lee-Sean Huang

We usually think of national borders as demarcations made in physical space. Indeed, in a fundamental sense these boundaries are manifested as restrictions on the movement of people and goods, usually imposed and policed by governments. But such borders, of course, also exist in our minds, where they are constantly subjected to forces that are not ...

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[cmd] + [cntrl]: Cyber Domination and Future Sexuality

Ziyu He

Finger, lips, arm, leg, your password, a file named IMG_7452.jpg. Lick, bend, whip, login, expose, delete. Your body, your mind, your hard drive, your hidden files, your mobile vulnerabilities. Intro (insert Cyber Dominatrix voice clip here.) As I heard her voice crawling out of the speakers into my ears, watching my browser pop open and my google search history ...

03

Who Shot Gil Naamati? Or, A History of Video Games

Gil Naamati, Oded Naaman, Yanai Israeli

INTERVIEWER A: Do you have any footage you filmed there? GIL: No, my camera was hit by a bullet. I used to have the pants I wore to the protest, with the holes—all drenched in blood. The only thing I still have from back then is my organ donor card, full of blood. Yeah, I have ...

04

Want an Intelligent Machine? Give it a Body

Lisa Jamhoury

Computers are ubiquitous. Aided by the internet, they have infiltrated our individual, social, and political lives. With the expansion of artificial intelligence and machine learning, they are poised to have even greater impact. But we are at a crossroads. Put simply, there is a problem in placing increasing trust in our machines: Never mind that the ...

06

Behold! The Sun Comes Over the Mountain

Kelley O'Brien

In the summer of 2018, I wandered the mountainous border between Idaho and Washington State searching for evidence of the unique qualities that defined each state. Finding tangible similarities between the two states, I proposed to examine the borderlands as a site of connection rather than division during a two-month-long residency at Laboratory in Spokane, ...

07

Violet, a Cyborg in Perpetual Becoming

Joelle Fleurantin

FOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATION ONLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Clearance: Level 1 containing MNPI If you believe you have received this communication in error, please contact Eleanor Morgan, emorgan@tetraterracomms.com Scanned transposed excerpts from the found letters of Doctor Thompson addressed to ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓, RN once based in Phoenix, AZ. ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ has not been located. Deemed excerpts by SLT since unlikely all ...

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Embodying New Tech: Cyberfeminist Artists and Female Body Representation

Elena Kendall Aranda

This article attempts to visualize the ways in which cyberfeminist artists approached the problem of corporeality in the United States. It will trace a line through first and second wave cyberfeminism and post-internet artists, using three artists indicative of each wave to see how the movement arose and evolved since the 1990s. The body is a ...

09

Self-Portrait in Open Source (Unfinished)

Aarón Montoya-Moraga

In this article I share my thinking process and results behind my recent self-portraiture art pieces. While crafting these works, I reappropriated technological tools for art marking and creating new ways of publicly exploring my identity. As I publicly logged my physical and emotional changes, opened myself to criticism, and expressed my passions, I underwent ...

10

Remapping the British Raj — An Indian perspective

Mathura Govindarajan

Hector If this were a movie, it would start on a thunderous night of looming skies, as the ship Hector docks on the busy port of Surat in India in the early 17th century. Rain would be pouring down as an elegantly dressed man whose very gait indicates pomp and clout steps off the dock to ...

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Far From Home, Far From Here: Riverbooks I & II

Chiang Liu

Preface What connects us? Rivers, bridges, minds, emotion, love, home, stories connect us. Humankind chose to live by the water a long time ago. 70% of the world’s population lives on coastal plains, 11 of the 15 biggest cities stand on a coastline or river estuary. Water also cuts channels, creates boundaries, divides territories to reshape islands, ...

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Manzini, Social Innovation, and the End of Democracy

Katya Rozanova

Me, not so long ago: “But save Europe from what?” Answer: The right wing populist movements that are exacerbated by immigration from Syria, as well as the potential collapse of social systems if Europe is unable to sustain the population of Syrian immigrants. Since the 60s, but especially in the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis and ...

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Persistence of Vision: Alden Jones on Donna Harraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto

Alden Jones

“I don’t think there’s ever been a phenomenon like ‘The Cyborg Manifesto’.” – Cary Wolfe “I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess” – Donna Haraway Donna Haraway first published A Cyborg Manifesto in the Socialist Review of October 1985, immediately “thrilling cultural studies bods, new agers, feminists, and cyberpunks alike” and creating an intellectual and political splash ...