I am honored to contribute a new chapter to the collective volume Escrituras hispánicas desde el exocanon (2022) edited by Daniel Escandell, where I discuss some of my current troubles with the dangerous environmental impact of digital technologies. In my chapter “Materialidad digital, algoritmos y otras abstracciones modernas” (“Digital Materiality, Algorithms, and Other Modern Abstractions”) … More on Digital Materiality: A New Publication
I am honored and humbled to be part of the ELC (Vol.4) with my project The Offline Website Project! The Electronic Literature Collections are arguably the most influential e-lit anthologies in the world, capturing the ethos of a time (as well as the state of the discipline worldwide), and although all previous volumes have been … TOWP is in the Electronic Literature Collection! (Vol. 4)
Remember those early days back in the Spring of 2020 when the world stopped? When we were paralyzed by fear and policy? A new documentary, COVID E-LIT: Digital Art During the Pandemic, produced by Anna Nacher, Søren Bro Pold, Scott Rettberg and Ashleigh Steele, follows sixteen digital artists’ experiences of the early COVID-19 pandemic … COVID E-LIT, a new documentary
10 days into the new year and it feels like 2020 is still dragging… (2022 is pronounced “twenty twenty too” for a reason). But not all is bad news, here’s a lovely new poem I built using Qualtrics to cheer you up: Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut It was published … Happy New Year! Here’s a New Poem
Enter Corporate Poetry: I am thrilled to share this new article on my Corporate Poetry project that just got published in Texts of Discomfort (Carnegie Mellon ETC Press, 2021), edited by María Cecilia Reyes and James Pope. In their own words: Can discomfort be blissful? This volume presents an in-depth reflection of the selected artworks … On bodies, surveys, virus and rooms…
This Fall semester has been particularly quiet in terms of work, yet substantially louder in terms of life. Oh, the noise a new baby makes! Still, I didn’t want to let too much time pass without a little update, because I did participate in a couple exciting art projects. My interactive poem “Potential Ideas and … A new show, a new talk, and a new life
With what I hope is the-last-semester-of-remote-teaching coming to an end, I’ve finally found a little time to share some highlights of the past few months. First and foremost, I have really enjoyed teaching an undergraduate course on the Long Spanish Transition to Democracy where we explored how Spanish sensibilities and citizens’ sense of politics have … More shows, more talks, and a wonderful undergrad class to end the last semester of the end of the world
Fall is way on its way and I have [as always] been falling behind on sharing good news. Here’s a few lovely things that happened this semester: I published a new poem “Made to Disappear” in the German-Austrian magazine Perspektive, part of a special issue on the digital avant-garde curated by Sylvia Egger. This is … Another show, more publications, a fabulous grad class, and the eternal sunshine of the COVID-19 pandemic
I am a little late on sharing some good news about wonderful stuff I have been lucky to be doing this summer (mostly because this summer I have also been juggling motherhood during the pandemic and so many other fun stories) but here! Last July I was fortunate to have my piece “beauty routine” from … new show, new publications, same pandemic
The generous and inspirational folks from Poetry and the Senses at the Arts Research Center invited me to read a poem: Many thanks! and I hope you enjoy it–we all need a little poetry these days. AlexOX