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Technologies of Flesh: ASAP/17 Seminar


  • Madison, Wisconsin (map)

jaamil olawale kosoko joins artists and scholars at ASAP/17 (Association for the Studies of the Arts of the Present) for a seminar titled “Technologies of Flesh.” This session investigates how technological forms illuminate new understandings of race and the way contemporary “informatics of domination” collapses bodies into data points. Drawing on Hortense Spillers’ concept of flesh as the “zero degree of social conceptualization,” jaamil will discuss their work as a multi-sensorial transmitter that retools extractive technological processes into modes of social critique and communal mending. By positioning the body as a living archive within responsive technological ecosystems, as presented in their newest project //shrouded\\, jaamil explores how Black and queer bodies navigate, resist, and exceed the limitations of the digital gaze. This seminar serves as a site for reimagining the human and mapping new ways of being together within the “wake” of technological modernity. 

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