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new media + digital culture // assistant professor of art + architecture @usfca // co-founder of @lrlxsf // currently thinking about cryptobros

Oakland, CA
Joined July 2009
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Academia is weird but my dept is hiring: Manager of Visual Arts Technology usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/…
i got to participate in this amazing episode about olives + pines a ways back — big thanks for @paradisjustine for bringing this to the world
Today we’re reaching back into the archives and pulling out a really special story. On the surface, it’s about trees. But what it’s really about is war, colonization, and the things we plant to make us feel at home. outsideinradio.org/shows/the…
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happy birthday to me today and to all those young trees and shrubs that calfire is reminding everyone to remove
It's the first day of #spring! Now is the perfect time to start planning the #DefensibleSpace around your home. By removing dead vegetation & trimming trees/shrubs, you can create a buffer essential to increasing your home’s chance of surviving a wildfire. readyforwildfire.org/Defensi…
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Tomorrow at #CAA2022 9am PST / 12pm EST, I'll be moderating this panel on NFTs: the good, the bad, the ugly, the new the sexy, the money -- with the brilliants @TinaRiversRyan @ericbarrydrasin and Mark H. Ramos. @NMCcomm @caavisual
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I wrote a chapter in this open access book which finally came out today! On visuality in Israel/Palestine, and specifically on how surveillance has become gendered especially as it relates to looking at the land. I propose some ecofeminist and insurgent ways of looking, instead.
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excited to talk about the creative potential + fallbacks of art and design made by others – whether by a hired hand, a machine, or an algorithm.
Join us for our next School of Design Talk on 2/9! Artist and writer Liat Berdugo @whatliat will discuss automation, mechanization, and outsourcing in the creative practice. Virtual, free, & open to all. RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/liat-berdug…
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Sneak-peak into my VR space for #vrartcamp (curator: @navratiljudit) premiering tomorrow Dec 19 at 2pm in @vrartcamp alongside fellow artists Elena Dao Jing Yu + Alex Artz (RSVP bit.ly/vrartcamp_show_and_te…).
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In this work I've been thinking about what it means to make art about parenthood. I’m inspired by artists like @lenkaclayton (who started #artistresidencyinmotherhood) + by how difficult it is to find art about motherhood that’s not just, like, Mary Cassatt paintings.
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feeling consumed by this week's breaking story from @washingtonpost + @BtSIsrael about Israel's massive facial recognition program in the OPT, "Blue Wolf" /1 washingtonpost.com/world/mid…
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"Blue Wolf", aka a massive AI system to match real-time photos of Palestinian to a database and flash colors indicating whether to arrest, detain, or let go. /2
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i’m talking today about citizen video in israel + palestine, and what taking a visual studies approach can offer us about politics and power
Join us for this special event on "Active Art," co-sponsored by the Madrasa-Midrasha Program and the Center for the Arts and Religion (@caregtu) at the GTU on Wednesday, November 10 at 12pm (PT). For more information and registration information, visit: bit.ly/2ZYc2D7
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thank you to @calnewmedia for having me and for having the stamina to live tweet, too!
Common Conversation: "Seeing is Not Enough: Citizen Videography in Israel-Palestine" with @whatliat and @kpfeldman is starting in just a few minutes! Tune in live on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=QZWgY35C…
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y’all the Trees issue of @ArchReview is sooooo goooood
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any art profs out there having their students do crowdsourcing projects? curious how you're framing such an assignment, and what references you're showing besides the classics of Koblin's sheeps
coming up next monday, coming to you via the internet everybody
UPCOMING ON NOV. 8: Artist, writer, and professor Liat Berdugo and Professor Keith Feldman discuss Liat's new book, "The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East". Join use to learn more about the role of visual evidence in portraying Middle Eastern conflict. bit.ly/3l4pn4l
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i've got a new essay on the violence of tree planting in Israel-Palestine in this special issue of @ArchReview all about trees.
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also i'm very into the new piece @shannonmattern wrote for @PlacesJournal on tree thinking, and how arboreal metaphors have impacted data structures and governance. placesjournal.org/article/tr…
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bay area folks -- me + @Resonator11 have work opening next week in this exhibition that speculates on technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations: refamiliarization.org/ @calnewmedia
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Designers out there: does anyone use business cards anymore? I'm trying to decide if I should *really* have my design students make these as part of their 'professional' preparation /1
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and, if anyone has a good word instead of 'professional' practices for these courses in academia -- a word that's not blatant racism and code for 'white' -- i want to know it! /2
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tomorrow i'm going to be talking about new media beyond the "spectacle" -- aka no more 'put an LED on it' art, but art that critically engages with technology
#UFVA2021 Conference will feature an inaugural New Media Keynote Presentation by Liat Berdugo Beyond the Spectacle 7/28 @ 6:00pm CT Prof. Berdugo is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates embodiment, labor, and militarization. @whatliat #newmedia #digitalculture
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I did an epistolary interview about Israel/Palestine for this latest issue of @prtcls_ , mostly about what we can expect images to do for social change but also about the strange world #IOF instagram gun influencers on tiktok & of open source intelligence analysis #OSINT on gaza
Introducing 🔥 Issue #9: SITRA ACHRA Featuring writing and art from Shirly Bahar, Almút Sh. Bruckstein, Tomer Dreyfus, @durcharts, Zoe Kurland, @JeremyAMann, Assi Meshullam, @YewCopy, Liev Sibilla, Joshua Simon, Naomi Treistman, and more!! prtcls.com/issue-9-sitra-ach…
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tonight at 5pm PST! I’ll be in conversation with my dear friend and writer/scholar Linda Dittmar about my book hosted by @CONSEQUENCEM, a literary journal focused on the experiences of conflict and geopolitical violence eventbrite.com/e/of-conseque…
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