Sunday, May 7, 12–5PM PT
Hosted by The Revolution School
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Join our Artists In Residence, The Revolution School through the Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, and friends for part two of a three-part Thinky Feely Tank (TFT) series. In TFT #2, we will expand our interdisciplinary playground with even more entanglements via our exciting special guests: K Allado-McDowell, Karen Arcos, Edgar Fabián Frías, Ellen L. Parks, Stacy E. Wood, and Alice Yuan Zhang!
In TFT #2, we will ask “how” questions. How can artists and scientists collaborate to build an ethical somatic machine worlder? How can we co-build a machine learner that worlds with and learns from Indigenous and quantum physics worldviews? How is the BEI🤖🐠* going to connect/ interface /entangle with our nervous system and gut microbiota? How can BEI🤖🕷️s consent to or be reciprocal with their own becoming? These how questions will become the BEI🤖🌾-building criteria for TFT #3: BEI🤖🍄 Hack House Build-A-Thon. No prep work or prior experience needed!
* BEI🤖🐥 s (pronounced ‘baes’) are somatic machine learners / AI robot animals that connect to our nervous system and are co-designed with our gut microbiota and perform diffractive methodologies rooted in quantum physics to help us operate from a place of abundance and identify cyclical underlying beliefs, traumas, and biases—which are produced by and perpetuate interlocking supremacy systems.
If you missed, TFT #1: Co-Worlding with Karen Barad, Nkem Ndefo, and Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe), watch the recording here.
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MEET THE FEATURED FRIENDS
Alice Yuan Zhang 张元 is a Chinese-American media artist, writer, and cultural organizer. Her trans-disciplinary practice operates on cyclical and intergenerational time. Along the peripheries of colonialist imagination, she works to bring technology down to earth by devising collective experiments in ancestral remembering, interspecies pedagogy, and networked solidarity. Alice co-founded virtual care lab, a collective that has hosted various creative engagements in remote connection since 2020, and is currently teaching Solidarity Infrastructures at the School for Poetic Computation.
Edgar Fabián Frías is a nonbinary Wixárika artist, psychotherapist, educator, curator, and brujx based in Los Angeles. Their art spans a diverse range of mediums, including installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing. Frías has a notable ability to convey stories and narratives through their art, which addresses historical legacies, acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, healing practices, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Their work seeks to bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary art, creating a rich tapestry that speaks to the complexities of our modern world. Frías’ work has been exhibited internationally at prestigious venues such as the Vincent Price Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Oregon Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Project Space Festival Juárez, and ArtBo, and has been featured in several publications, including Cosmopolitan, Taschen, ELLE UK, Bustle, Los Angeles Times, Slate, CVLT Nation, Terremoto, and Hyperallergic. Visit their website.
Dr. Karen Arcos is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Karen earned her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and a Field Emphasis in Chicano/Latino Studies from the University of California, Irvine, along with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Spanish minor from the University of Southern California. Karen has accomplished feats such as earning the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship despite being totally blind.
Thanks to those who have helped her be where she is today, Karen is passionate about giving back to her community. She mentors students on undergraduate and graduate admissions processes, as well as on conducting experimental procedures, to show them that they, too, can pursue advanced degrees. During her free time, Karen enjoys reading mysteries, spending time with family and friends, and hiking.
K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the books Pharmako-AI, Amor Cringe, and Air Age Blueprint and are co-editor of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. They created the neuro-opera Song of the Ambassadors, and record and release music under the name Qenric.
K established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator and consultant to think-tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.
K’s work has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Bookforum, Artforum, Lithub, The Warburg Institute, Institute of Network Cultures, and by writers including Erik Davis and Bruce Clarke.
K has spoken at New Museum, Tate, Serpentine Gallery, HKW, Moderna Museet, Christie’s, MacArthur Foundation, MfN Berlin, Ars Electronica, Sónar, and many other venues, and has taught at SCI-Arc, Strelka, and IAAC.
Stacy E. Wood is a researcher, writer and teacher. She is currently the Director of Research and Programs for UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. Her work focuses on the interstices of technologies and cultures of evidence. Website: stacyewood.com