SIGHT(INGS) & OBSERVATIONS

When I was pursuing my master’s degree, I was told by my thesis director that I’m a better orator than I am a writer. You can imagine the statement not only stung, but it made me wonder about my future as a writer and educator. I thought, “How could I teach people a craft that I couldn’t do well? Or worse, didn’t have the expertise and experience to guide and mentor students.” While I graduated…

2024-2025 / multimedia Image of an orange and red treasure flower (photo is by the artist)Image of a paragraph of text that appears on the backside of a card with an image of a treasure flower (photo is by the artist) This piece is a lyric game (or game poem) and a love letter for caregivers. As someone who has provided care to my partner battling cancer and to my mother who sustained severe…

I have not been the best at updating my website. So much has happened (great things and some not so wonderful things) since my last entry. I am finally getting a handle on my digital presence (what does that even mean these days?!) because I’m starting a special project with incredible, talented, and gifted people who have agreed to work on helping me re-design and re-envision my new digital home…

Fortunate to be included in this epic anthology. I had the opportunity to write an essay about artist Chelsea Thompto’s work Landmarks for the book. Many brilliant artists and writers in this collection! More information below. “Edited by David Evans Frantz, Christina Linden, and Chris E. Vargas A compelling exploration of trans art, activism, and resistance.Spanning over four centuries, this…

“This publication is a coalition — it brings together experiences of combined action. With a focus on labor organizing within the arts and tech industries, In Poetic Coalition explores the potential of creating alternative networks of education and challenging the material conditions that prevent us from enacting new realities with dignity and security. When we defy existing models for…

During my artist residency at Carnegie Mellon University’s Frank-Ratchye STUDIO For Creative Inquiry (March 2023), I joined AMT Lab staff member Samantha Sonnet as a part of their Let’s Talk podcast series. We talked about the future of AI, identity, tech and culture, tarot reading, and more. It was a delightful conversation and I was incredibly impressed with Samantha and the rest of the…

Humbled and honored to be a part of a special series on Sounding Out guest edited by one of my mentors, Johann Diedrick. Please read Professor Jennifer Lynn Stoever’s statement of the series below. In summer 2021, sound artist, engineer, musician, and educator Johann Diedrick convened a panel at the intersection of racial bias, listening, and AI technology at Pioneerworks in Brooklyn, NY.…

Image description: A bright green flyer with xerox looking images in the background overlaid by black typography that reads Cyberfeminism Index in all capital letters. Below this text reads Mindy Seu in conversation with Dorothy Santos, A.M. Darke, Cesia Domínguez López, and Anika Sarin. cyberfeminism? by Mindy Seu (excerpt) “Cyberfeminism cannot be reduced to women and technology. Nor is it…

Mediating the Social: The Excesses of Racial Representation within (Trans)formative Digital Space published to Platform Journal

Image description: Platform: Journal of Media and Communication in large text a the top of a black cover of the Visuality: Truth and Politics issue. Volume 9.1 Visuality: Truth and Politics appears in white sans serif text at the bottom right hand corner. The middle of the cover, there is a depiction of an orb surrounded by a geometric wireframe. Abstract In this essay, I explore what Gray…

Header Footer Gallery Presents: Being a POC in The Art WorldEpisode 3

Image description: A grid of six POC artists and educators against a pink, yellow, and orange gradient background with the text Ep. 3 HF Gallery Presents: Being POC in The Art World with a red rectangular button with a white play symbol in the middle. This past month, I had the pleasure of being in conversation with the Header / Footer Gallery curator Rene Cepeda, NMC Board member Constanza…

Image alt text: Homepage of the Critical Coding Cookbook website. Behind the title, Critical Coding Cookbook: an Intersectional Feminist Approach to Teaching and Learning, there is a dark background with tessellated neon yellow and pink triangles. It was a joy and delight putting this “recipe” together for the Critical Coding Cookbook. Although I consider myself a perpetual novice at creative…

Screen Matters – The Screen as a Place of Work

Please check out the online symposium Screen Matters – The Screen As A Place Of Work! It is pre-recorded and will be streamed daily from 07:00 – 10:15 pm on GPC Online Screen (http://streaming.goldenpixelcoop.com/)With contributions by:Ingrid Burrington, Anna Caterina Dalmasso, Eva and Franco Mattes, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Elisa Giardina Papa, Laure Prouvost, Dorothy R. Santos, Axel Stockburger,…

Into the Country of Our Kitchen: An Anthology from the Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab of 2021 #ksw

Into the Country of Our Kitchen: An Anthology from the Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab of 2021 Pre-order the KSW IWL 2021 Chapbook From Empanadas, to Marigolds, Post-Colonial Cha and Baptisms, join us for this reading featuring emerging US-based writers from the 2021 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL), presented by Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian Art Museum. The 2021 Into the Country of…

Despite the start to 2022 being rather challenging, it’s been wonderful to reflect on all of the wonderful things that gave me hope this past year. One of the projects I had the pleasure and honor of working on was the development of Logic School (LS). Alongside good friend and collaborator, writer, artist, scholar, and author of Blockchain Chicken Farm, Xiaowei R. Wang (they/them), I had the…

Beyond the Life Cycle of the Object at Mouse Conference 2021

Image description: A flyer of Apple computer mice configured to look like a flower or star. The names of presenters of the Mouse Conference 2021 adorn the sides of the flyer that has a bright green border. On April 29 & 30, 2021, the Computer Mouse Conference 2021 launched 🐁 and it was one of my favorite events, by far, this year. I truly enjoyed giving my talk. It was also an incredible line up…

Along with dear friend Connie Zheng @yconniezheng and our mentor and Professor Anna Friz, the three of us were selected to share our audio works at the Rewire 2021 Festival! Feeling very grateful to have been one of the 10 artists chosen (out of 400 submissions 😱). Really, truly was not expecting this. 🤗Here’s a brief description of my work ~ “Remembering The Pulse” is inspired by Alexis Pauline…