I am interested in orchestrating collisions between digital and material media that demonstrate the intersections of women’s art and craft with digital media through conceptual art and theatrical installations. I tend to approach understanding through holding unlike pairs of concepts together and my practice, if anything, is always an effort toward some kind of understanding of community through the creation, examination, and/or reconciliation of difference and non-difference.
My writing works primarily with discourses of philosophy and critical theory and hopefully resolves itself poetically in folk art and craft and practically toward democratic enterprise and fairer trade. My research continues many explorations that I had begun during my years as an undergraduate student in the Mathematics Department at UCSC and have been further developed in light of my work at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative and EGS. My initial inquiries involved feminism and the history of mathematics; then mathematics’ relationship to mapping, metaphor, and other technologies of representation; and now, most recently, how those technologies are deployed in the service of being, movements of social control and social change, and what might become conceivable for more equitable human possibilities. My field of interest is inevitably global in scope and, for better or worse, I have always been a compulsive interdisciplinarian, attempting elegant and awkward reconciliations across difference, inspiration at the interstices of the irreconcilable, or creative routes around and opportunities among the aporias that can emerge.
Despite, or perhaps because of, the frequent intangibility pervading philosophical scholarship of this sort, I find tremendous satisfaction in working from and towards specific concrete objects or events that demonstrate materially the theories underlying my attempts to understand and communicate my observations. These attempts have motivated my continuing commitment to democratic worker cooperatives and, more unexpectedly, propelled my philosophical writing mischievously, naively, yet somehow inevitably toward art. My works to date involve little concrescences of prose, poetry, and, image; spontaneous transmutation experiments between text and textile, handicraft and digital file. The subjects to which I find myself returning include mathematics, cartography, textile, writing, love, work, race, class, and democracy, in the context of history, diaspora, globalization, hope, humor, and technology.
I aspire to be a teacher of calculus to blacksmiths and poets, painters and performance artists. I aspire to be a bookmaker of virtual books with pages of light; a quilter of brightness, pixels, MP3s, and other digital scraps; a synesthetic cartographer of speculative fictions, re-ordered ambitions, and Empire’s sublime negative spaces. Moreover, I aspire to a world where such odd aspirations are encouraged as the imminent fruit of passionate hope–– where mathematics might be released as a poetic political force; where art and craft find and feel new ways into and out of digital media; where explorations of sense and sensation might transform being and togetherness toward increased political freedom and social justice.
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