elizabeth

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, my interests include things that start with the letter M: maps, melon, mathematics, music, materialism, and making things; the letter P: Philippines, philosophy, poetry, pie, paint, possibility, and ping pong; the letter C: cats, coffee, coastlines, clothes, cookies, and color.

I earned a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1999. My work then involved feminist history of science and mathematics. In 2005, I began a self-directed distance learning M. A. in Communication with the European Graduate School where I was exposed to a generous artillery of contemporary philosophy, film, and poetry. I became interested in mathematics’ relationship to philosophy, mapping, metaphor, and other technologies of representation; how those technologies may be deployed in the service of ontology, movements of social control and social change; and, what becomes conceivable for more equitable, more humane possibilities.

I am currently on leave after an eight year stint of work, activism, and education, involving democratic worker cooperatives, anti-oppression development, fair trade and whole food at the venerable Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. I served two years on the board of directors and four years as a founding member of the anti-oppression workgroup. Mostly I received and stocked groceries and counted a whole hell of a lot of change, while honing and improvising the ever difficult and always imperfect practice of democracy and non-hierarchy among an amazing gathering of co-owners.

Here at DANM and delighted to be back in Santa Cruz, I look forward to orchestrating some beautiful collisions between digital and material media, refining the explorations of my EGS thesis through conceptual art. (More show, less tell.) I feel like my philosophical inquiries led me to a limit in terms of text and essay and inadvertently brought me to art. In particular, I imagine curious objects and theatrical installations that demonstrate the intersection of traditional women’s folk art and craft with digital media technology.

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