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" Still from "Compos(i)t" Still from "Competitive Adoptees" (w/ Laura Hyunjhee Kim) Still from "¡CABO 2030! : an augmented reality spring break" (w/ Michelle Rosen & Thomas Van de Pas) Still from "STEALTH LESBIAN"


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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Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail


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).