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mcardenas@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Micha Cárdenas is an MFA candidate at the University of California San
Diego and an MA candidate in Media and Communications at the European
Graduate School and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Florida International University. Ze is a
researcher at CalIT2 and
CRCA.
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interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex, desire and
resistance. Micha is a transgender, genderqueer performance artist,
political organizer and trouble maker.
Micha is a founding member of a number of art/activism collectives
including Sharing Is Sexy, the borderlands Hacklab and the City Heights Free Skool.
Micha's video and performance work has been seen in galleries,
community spaces and public spaces around the world including the
US/Mexico border checkpoint during the Political Equator II, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), the Marcuse
Gallery at UCSD, the Steinmatte at the European Graduate School, the
Rubber Rose Gallery, freEtech 2007, the Casa de Iniciativas in Málaga,
Spain, the Americas Social Forum in Quito, Ecuador and the Seoul Human
Rights festival as well as on Free Speech TV and Paper Tiger TV.
Micha has collaborated with faculty members Ricardo Dominguez on the
Transborder
Immigrant Tool and the B.A.N.G.
lab, and Adriene Jenik on specFlic
1.0.
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