Event overview
The fourth in our 2018/19 Digital Arts Computing masterclass series
The fourth of our 2018/19 Digital Arts Computing masterclass series will be led by artist and writer Cassandra Troyan. The day will consist of a critique, with the students examining the connections between material intimacies, technology, and collective life as community action in their own work, to develop strategies for tactile interventions. The theme for the Digital Art Masterclass Series 2018/19 is Collective Actions. The series brings together leading artists to work with Digital Art Computing students to consider how computation shapes collective life.
Cassandra Troyan is a writer, teacher, and artist whose work, described by Blake Butler, “takes the Sade-ian end of the oversharing shtick, turning one's own private human pain into a diorama reflecting the environments and brains that birthed it.” Their work demarcates spaces for collective experience through exploration of myths, normative (gender) roles, radical histories of resistance, and cultural influence as a means to re-organizing agency in the disorganization of daily life. As a desirous voyeur wanting to reanimate the most gorgeous impulses in the unlikeliest of places, they are a trans-historical operator deriving pleasure and power from situations of submission, violence, labor, sex work, horror, and capital. Cutting across the spheres of theory, politics, their practice is informed by and involved with, autonomous organizing around issues of community self-defense, mutual aid, and sex worker rights.
They are the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, including: Throne of Blood (Solar Luxuriance 2013), Blacken Me Blacken Me, Growled (Tiny Hardcore Press 2013/Civil Coping Mechanisms 2016), and Kill Manual (Artifice Books 2014); two chapbooks, Hatred Of Women (Solar Luxuriance 2014) and A Theory In Tears (Annotations & Cases For Freedom & Prostitution)(Kenning Editions 2016). They have been invited to present, perform, exhibit, or screen their work at venues such as The University of Toronto’s “Sex Salon”; Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoCA); the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (MCA); with video retrospectives at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, NY and at Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco, CA. Originally from the US, they currently live and teach in Kalmar, Sweden as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at Linnaeus University.
Dates & times
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7 Mar 2019 | 10:00am - 4:00pm |
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