American Artist: Black Gooey Universe at LABOR Object Analysis: Mother of All Demos II Alejandro Perea Aided: by Helen Klnaris April 15, 2022 “Racial Slavery — which generated Blackness as a site of permanent extraction, gratuitous physical violence, and social death — provided the material and ideological basis for the United States.” Artist, American. Black Gooey Universe. Photo Credit Ramiro Chavez.

The letters to the automata Imagine thus A salon done in the Louvie XVI Chambers — a dozen actors Six done white the body suit they attend The costumes are a court A toymaker — the automata maker The court sees and reads reports of his mechanic mach mashinistic toys She hid her subtle nature …

Introduction Donna Haraway’s 1988 article Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective mentions a figure from Native American mythology of the Southwest, the Trickster Coyote. Not entirely unrelated to the following discourse, she claims this myth is useful for scientists. Haraway employs this mythical figure…

“Artists are not held back by a fear of failure because, in art, success is often found in the unexpected. Experimentation with advanced technologies can magnify artists’ potential for good because these are the emerging media we are studying to write the future1 -Han Ulrich Obrist Concerning new directions in…

“All is Number” — Pythagoras I had an Apple IIc when I was about that age, the age when kids want more than anything else to see a circus. The grey power cable was thick and sturdily wound and bound; I had never seen anything packaged like that. My aunt said these words. “It is…

In The Queer Art of Failure 2011, Duke University Press, Jack Halberstam offers a queer reading of popular cartoons and films, including Spongebob, Dude Where’s my Car and Finding Nemo. The basic premise is that the concept of failing can be used as a device to upend conventional and established…

Ancient smile, worm, You’re just — You have an ancient smile Like your ancestors have been smiling like that Just like that that and it’s brought you all the way through them to me through time I’ll let this chick inspire me I’ll find your ancient inspiration Like your dna has been looking for my dna…