[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Save the Date | Biocode: Performing Transgression After New Media | April 9-11, 2015

[Kevin Gotkin]

Hi all—

Please see below for information about an upcoming conference in Philadelphia. To sign up for the conference announcement list, click here<http://biocode2015.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b3a7161dab30d77021647f12b&id=bc700a6fb4>.

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Kevin Gotkin
Tel: (551)427-7907











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From: Biocode Conference <biocode at riseup.net<mailto:biocode at riseup.net>>
Subject: Save the Date | Biocode: Performing Transgression After New Media | April 9-11, 2015
Date: February 27, 2015 at 3:52:45 PM EST
To: <kgotkin at asc.upenn.edu<mailto:kgotkin at asc.upenn.edu>>
Reply-To: Biocode Conference <biocode at riseup.net<mailto:biocode at riseup.net>>

Interdisciplinary conference coming to Penn in April.
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April 9-11, 2015
Save the Date!
Registration Information Coming Soon.
Biocode will be free for all.
More information on our website<http://biocode2015.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b3a7161dab30d77021647f12b&id=79e127d0ee&e=458aa2ea35>.
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“Biocode: Performing Transgression After New Media” will explore possibilities of digital transgression across multiple fields of inquiry, including gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, disability studies, and transnational and border studies.

Used by natural scientists to advocate a new taxonomic nomenclature for all living things, the term "biocode" also appears in contemporary biopolitical critique to describe a crucial unit of power in our age of techno-capitalism, one that is marked by the proliferation of technologies that manage and marginalize our biomatter in increasingly intrusive ways. Rather than seeking agency solely outside of these systems, a range of individuals and communities have actively worked within them, repurposing them to new political, affective, and aesthetic ends. Drawing inspiration from these practices of bio-coding and bio-hacking, the conference will bring a variety of artists, activists, and theorists together working on tactics of resistance, disturbance, and transgression through and in response to the digital turn.

Conference panels, projects, and performances will use digital media to examine how sites of vulnerability may equally become sites of transgression. It is precisely from within such spaces of vulnerability that the speakers for “Biocode” have developed a set of tactics and optics for experimenting with the interfacial potentials between digital manipulation, artistic performance, and political intervention.

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Confirmed Participants Include...

Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men
Hannah Black
Zach Blas
Simone Browne
Tyler Coburn
Lennard Davis
Dirty Looks
Ricardo Dominguez
Dreamers Adrift
Alex Galloway
Sara Hendren
Sarah Kember
Ian Alan Paul
Lisa Parks
Alex Rivera
McKenzie Wark

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Featured Sessions...





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Dirty Looks Performance-Based Panel
Thursday, April 9th @ 5:00pm
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall




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Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men
Thursday, April 9th @ 7:30pm
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall




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Vulnerable Systems: A Screening of Video Works
Friday, April 10th @ 4:30pm
Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia






Questions?
biocode at riseup.net<mailto:biocode at riseup.net>














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