Selected Presentations & Appearances
This talk dissects the aesthetics and politics of camera phones and their "telephonic images" by placing them in the larger economic context of digital, reflexive accumulation. Charting how the ideal media subject of digitality became mobilized, this presentation addresses modifications to the image through a medium specific analysis of camera phones. It concludes by highlighting the impact of telephony on photography, demonstrating how each remediated the other and intensified vernacular forms of mobile image making.
Discussing music, personal history, practices of making and creating, and digital culture, this interview spans the problems posed by automated visual art and music, capitalism and the desire to create, and the shift from a paradigm of authenticity to one of communication and profiles.
Taking the retirements of two trans rappers (LoneMoon and Ayesha Erotica) as a starting point, the folks at Vers Magazine discuss internet cultures and their relationship to moralism and marginality, subcultures and the politics of support, Nietzschean ressentiment, and the questions surrounding what to make of 'problematic' artists who are also marginalized.