[spectre] Becoming Transreal: A mixed reality, biodigital performance @ UCLA Nov 3, 2010

[micha cárdenas]

Performance by Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand
UCLA Freud Playhouse<http://www.tft.ucla.edu/calendar/performance/transreal-bodies/>
November 3rd, 4pm
Co-sponsored by The Center for Performance
Studies<http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/>and the
UCLA Department of Theater

What if you could become anything? What happens after species change surgery
becomes a reality? *Becoming Transreal* speculates on a future in which the
promises of bionanotechnology have become realized, and yet as capitalism
has continued to fail, both the interiors of our bodies and the virtual
world have become totally commodified. you can become anything, but to
finance your whims of identity transformation, the same nanohormones that
transform your body are also producing drugs for others. *Becoming Transreal
* looks at transgender experience through a lens of slipstream science
fiction poetry. The performance uses motion capture to interface with Second
Life avatars and 3D stereoscopic imagery to immerse the audience in this
transreal world.

Inspired in part by *Tales from the Matter Market* <http://pitmm.net/> and a
continuation of *Becoming Dragon* <http://secondloop.wordpress.com/>, this
performance asks what our lives are like when we have become both the
factory and the product, asks how we can resist capitalism when
neoliberalism’s collapse has wound itself into the perfection of a single
atom, into the fabric of beauty and into our most intimate emotions.

Photo at:
http://bang.calit2.net/tts/2010/09/07/becoming-transreal-a-mixed-reality-biodigital-performance/

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micha cárdenas

Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press,
http://is.gd/daO00
Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San
Diego
Artist/Researcher, UCSD Medical Education
Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, http://bang.calit2.net

blog: http://transreal.org

gpg: http://is.gd/ebWx9
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