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Disorientalism is happy to be participating in "Dis-Robed," curated by Kathleen Smith and Ava Rawski at The Wassaic Project Summer Festival. Our new work, Guns N' Gals, includes photographs and a performance on Sunday, August 15th. Come visit us in the countryside where we will be hard at work in the Wassaic Project's old grain elevator.
Dis-Robed
August 13-22
"Guns N' Gals" Performance
Sunday, August 15, 12-3PM
THE WASSIAC PROJECT
19 Furnace Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592
We are very pleased to report that Disorientalism has a new website.
A huge shout out to Cliff Barrett for his WordPress expertise!
Silvia Ruzanka, Ben Chang, and I will be presenting at "Avatars and Humans: Representing Users in Digital Games," a preconference for ECREA 2010 in Hamburg. Our paper, "Avatar Impotence: On 'User Will,' 'Avatar Agency,' and 'System Control' in Second Life," discusses the second phase of Willy-Nilly, our project now in development in Second Life.
Avatars and Humans: Representing Users in Digital Games
Pre-conference to the ECREA 2010–3rd European Communication Conference
October 12-15
Hamburg, Germany
I am very excited about two panels that I have organized for the upcoming annual conference of SLSA (The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts). The theme is Object-Oriented Feminism (OOF). We have an incredible line-up of speakers and there is sure to be a phenomenal discussion!
OOF 1: Programs
SPEAKERS:
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Patricia Ticineto Clough
Katherine Behar
RESPONDENT: N. Katherine Hayles
OOF 2: Parts
SPEAKERS:
Anne Pollock
Adam Zaretsky
Frenchy Lunning
RESPONDENT: Ian Bogost
SLSA Annual Meeting
October 29-31
Indianapolis, Indiana
