Terms of Use (2019)
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Terms of Use is a two-part video work that considers desire as a mode of (anti)production. Desire reveals itself as fundamental towards the aims of certain AIs/emergent technologies, i.e., something may be programmed to elicit a desired outcome. These outcomes then give language towards the underlying desires of their instigators, which reveal entanglements with dominant ideologies of race, gender/sexuality, class, among others. How might the production of digital mess, detritus, waste, and frivolity both interrupt, and reconfigure, power structures inherent to technologically-based art?
![Still from "Compos(i)t"](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43dce3f3237dbb04169d8563e9fc19c3b3028bb08d1dcd818e232b262b6c67f4/Screen-Shot-2019-12-13-at-12.43.20-AM.png)
![Still from "Compos(i)t"](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/550c82ef838874c455a39832197a4afaeaed057aacadff0796b06737896330e0/5-composit.png)
![Still from "Competitive Adoptees" (w/ Laura Hyunjhee Kim)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1542e2ed16a0d608a97f0234ed1b948dacdbdef9a6d2d97e0063fa6aedf9aa9b/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-2.10.47-PM.png)
![Still from "¡CABO 2030! : an augmented reality spring break" (w/ Michelle Rosen & Thomas Van de Pas)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/180fb0d2ae61b5cbcbcd24ee40075e79946481c3a65eb76589c914b79fdcfe04/kush-edit.png)
![Still from "STEALTH LESBIAN"](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e80196c18f9ced3485fb19c9fea58537ff8c48a429a0a953c4da0449fb52340c/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-6.15.35-PM.png)
This work offers forth lo-fi video interventions to a digital landscape that grows aesthetically sharper, wiser, and more insidious. How can we continue to be, and create, in conversation with technological intimacy as a form of resistance against emergent tech’s trajectories towards social governance and population control? Terms of Use & Terms of Use (Suite II): Agree to Disagree ask us how we might propose queerer means of being in the world that destabilize dominant ideologies on technology, identity, and the body.
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![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9aa343d7c5402f4bed6ce57552bc9ef3faabbf3d03fad0e6c497cba5696c216/toug2.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66f6de97e7bea043d4f0c70a1d3159192d4f389a3b08f665df5fa2fbc5869402/toug4a.png)
![Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd91a864cfe72178a256ddf664e8d81e226f80b23a8cffc3f832ec652b4ce857/TickleHere012.png)
![Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4f76b707da30417d62b6fc148ecf0352bd9b498090c783c1f2adb512c9907e3/TickleHere037.png)
![Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/929b0ec851e2cf05abc8c3322ebdc747c57eeb1a222254b48b6df057d6ce10b9/TickleHere011.png)
Installations:
Dec 2019, Terms of Use (Suite II): Agree to Disagree @ CMCI Studio (Boulder, CO)
May 2019, Terms of Use @ University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)
Apr 2019, Terms of Use @ Gildar Gallery (Denver, CO)
Terms of Use was supported through a Center for the Arts & Humanities Fellowship at the University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO).