A while ago now, The Los Angeles Review (with support from Letras Latinas), commissioned me a piece focusing on the concepts of Joy and Resistance for their Latinex Digital Poetics folio. Camilo Loaiza Bonilla, the issue’s editor, puts it this way: “(i)n 2025, the Latinx community in the U.S. is experiencing fear and uncertainty that … Resistance to
Summer came and left, and we are still here. I just came back from Granada, Spain, where I participated in CULTUR_ALH: encuentro internacional de cultural literaria de la Alhambra, the most incredible literary festival (of my life!). I had the opportunity to teach a beautiful workshop on digital literature and, together with my collaborator, Mario … About Traceroute Poems and Cryptopoetry
Blog updating is a bore, but my participation in these two events around artificial intelligence and virtual reality on campus this past month was not! On Feb 7 I participated on a round table with some excellent colleagues on the challenges and opportunities of teaching language, literature and culture in the age of AI. The … More AI and some VR
I just wrapped up two new Internet Tours conceived together with Mario Santamaría. Like last year, we took some tourists around the San Francisco Bay Area on a journey to the hidden places through which our images, voices, cryptocurrencies and future intelligence circulate (more info on this and last year’s Internet Tour here). I love … More Internet Tours and More AI
Quick update to keep some sort of record of what 2024 has brought me so far! In January I participated at MLA24, and delivered a couple of talks engaging my latest research. In my talk “Trees and Codes” (part of the panel “Anthropocene Cultural Production in Latin America and the Caribbean,” organized by Nicolás Campisi … More AI talks, more trees, more codes…
Last month I had the good fortune of participating in a conversation on the past, future and present of AI together with my colleagues Josh Bloom, professor of Astronomy, and Keanan Joyner, assistant professor of Psychology, led by Marion Fourcade, Director of the Social Science Matrix and professor of Sociology. It was a fascinating multidisciplinary … Letters and Sciences in the Age of AI
Together with Mario Santamaría, I took folks in a bus around the San Francisco Bay Area to look at data centers. Following Mario’s project, we called this “Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations“: Like any other digital technology, or the Internet itself, the current explosion of AI research and applications relies on their conceptualization … Internet Tour
The Electronic Literature Organization 2023 international conference and media art festival took place in Coimbra, Portugal, July 12 to 15, and I had the great pleasure of co-chairing this massive event with my beloved Rui Torres and Manuel Portela, as well as Daniela Côrtes Maduro (who first suggested this event should take place in beautiful … The great feat of ELO2023 Coimbra
I am super excited to share with you this special issue that Álvaro Llosa and myself have co-edited for The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol 24.1). Including articles by scholars Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega, Vega Sánchez Aparicio, Laura Sánchez Gómez and artist Tina Escaja; speculative essays by Belén Gache, and Álvaro Llosa; creative essays by Germán … Futuros: imaginarios, redes y prácticas digitales en la cultura española. Un catálogo de posibles
The semester ends and it’s been a busy one! Probably the busiest of my career at UC Berkeley. Students sometime ask me what’s that I do, and it is a poem to see their faces when I explain to them the many different roles a college professor has… or is made to have. In any … End of the semester: Thanks! + new talks, and a new art show at the Cervantes Institute in New York City