Full Description
In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cÁrdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cÁrdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cÁrdenas identifies how trans and gender-non-conforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation. In her analyses of Giuseppe Campuzano's holographic art, Esdras Parra's and Kai Cheng Thom's poetry, Mattie Brice's digital games, Janelle MonÁe's music videos, and her own artistic practice, cÁrdenas shows how algorithmic analysis provides new modes of understanding the complex processes of identity and oppression and the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Algorithmic Analysis 1
1. Trans of Color Poetics 26
2. The Decolonial Cut 43
3. The Shift 72
4. The Experience of Shifting 96
5. The Stitch 129
Conclusion. Visionary Trans of Color Futures 167
Notes 179
Bibliography 203
Index 213
