micha cárdenas

micha cárdenas is an artist/theorist who works at the intersections of mvoement, technology and politics. They are a PhD student in Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) at University of Southern California and a member of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0. micha’s project Local Autonomy Networks was selected for the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose and was the subject of their keynote performance at the 2012 Allied Media Conference. Micha’s co-authored book The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities, published by Atropos Press in 2012, discusses art that uses augmented, mixed and alternate reality, and the intersection of those strategies with the politics of gender, in a transnational context. micha holds an MFA from University of California, San Diego, an MA in Communication from the European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from Florida International University. They blog at michacardenas.org and tweet at @michacardenas.

micha’s publications include Trans Desire/Affective Cyborgs, with Barbara Fornssler, from Atropos Press, “I am Transreal”, in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation from Seal Press and “Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study” in Code Drift from CTheory. They were previously the Interim Associate Director of Art and Technology for UCSD’s Sixth College in the Culture, Art and Technology program. micha has been an artist/researcher with the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2, the UCSD School of Medicine and CRCA as well as a lecturer in the Visual Arts department and Critical Gender Studies program at UCSD. Micha’s collaboration with Electronic Disturbance Theater, the Transborder Immigrant Tool, was the subject of widespread media coverage. Micha has exhibited and performed in biennials, museums and galleries in places around the world including Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, New York, São Paulo, Berlin, San Francisco, Montreal, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain, Switzerland and Ireland. micha’s work has been written about in publications including the Huffington Post, Art21, the Associated Press, the LA Times, CNN, BBC World, Wired and Rolling Stone Italy.