Multiplicities in Motion: Affects, Embodiment, and the Reversal of Cybernetics, 3,000 Years of Posthuman History

Conference: Multiplicities in Motion: Affects, Embodiment, and the Reversal of Cybernetics. 3,000 Years of Posthuman History, International METABODY Forum 2013 Madrid, July 24-31 2013.

METABODY Forum 2013 focuses on a general philosophical and transdisciplinary enquiry into the notion of Metabody as substrate for redefining the body and the worls in terms of movement, emergence and relational processes: a Metabody as an emergent process of movement relations.This concept appears as a crucial tool to understand how power operates in contemporary capitalism, which functions chorographing bodies at all scales: social, affective, perceptual and cognitive. The conference Multiplicities in Motion: Affects, Embodiment, and the Reversal of Cybernetics. 3,000 Years of Posthuman History explores a first transversal field of critique and creative invention for the Metabody project addressing the history of perception. Conference organization: Jaime del Val and Eva Botella.

Session: Technogenetic spirals and ontological critique, July 27 2013

Panel: “Movements of Disturbance: Excess Ecology, Post-Digital Networks, and Queer Illegibility”

This panel proposal includes three research-based artist presentations that usepolitical disturbance to speculate, envision, and perform posthuman, metahuman, and unhuman futures. With micha cárdenas, Pinar Yoldas, and Zach Blas.

Talk: “Queer Illegibility and the Facial Weaponization Suite” 

Facial Weaponization Suite develops forms of collective, artistic protest against biometric facial recognition, global surveillance, and informatic capture–as well as the inequalities these technologies propagate–by making masks in community-based workshops that are used for public intervention and performance. These masks are forms of queer escape and opacity that refuse the parsing, categorizing, and calculations of standardized, normalized recognition and perception registers; the masks attempt to generate a presence that is illegible to such forms of control. One mask in the suite, the Fag Face Mask, is a response to scientific studies that link determining sexual orientation through rapid facial recognition. This mask is generated from the biometric facial data of many queer men’s faces, resulting in a mutated, alien facial mask that cannot be read or parsed by biometric facial recognition technologies.