<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello empyre! It's been great to see what everyone is working on. Looking forward to connecting in 2016. </div><div><strong><u></u></strong><br></div><div><strong><u>Current research, projects, and exhibitions</u></strong></div><ul><li><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">I recently curated a group show with Jenny Odell, Morehshin Allahyari, and Caroline Sinders titled <em>Archive Fever: Future Imaginings of Things Past</em> <a href="http://www.b4bel4b.com/future" target="_blank">http://www.b4bel4b.com/future</a> as a part of B4BEL4B (babelab) gallery's Emergent Media Labs programming. It was a great turnout and hoping to provide and share documentation (including a curatorial statement within the month)</div></li><li><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">In March 2016, I will help lead a workshop and participate on a panel discussion for the Out Festival in Southern California celebrating queer black cinema with a special focus on Watermelon Woman, a film by Cheryl Dunye. I am leading the digital effort for the programming and most interested in how digital and mobile technologies re-interpret and re-imagine the film. Concentrating on uses of social media, augmented reality, and publishing platform NewHive.</div></li><li><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">I received a curatorial appointment at UC Santa Cruz in the Digital Art and New Media (DANM) and lecturer position within the department. The opening and showcase of the MFA DANM 2016 students will be on April 29. They are an incredible cohort and I'm very excited to help them showcase their work to the community.</div></li><li><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">In the most recent print issue of Hyphen Magazine, I wrote about the work of Andrew S. Yang, artist and scientist (per the suggestion of Roger Malina)</div></li><li><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">New York-based artist and educator, Carla Gannis will release a book of her work with her exhibition <a href="http://transfergallery.com/2015/12/a-subject-self-defined-carla-gannis/">"A Subject Self Defined" opening at Transfer Gallery (NY)</a> with a catalog essay I wrote covering her year long creation of the works for the show and the book.</div></li><li><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">My essay titled "From Materiality to Machines: Manufacturing the Organic and Hypotheses for Future Imaginings" will be published in forthcoming anthology, <em>The Routledge Handbook to Biology in Art and Architecture </em>(Edited by Charissa Terranova and Meredith Tromble)</div></li></ul><div><strong><u>Bio</u></strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Dorothy R. Santos</strong> is a writer, editor, and curator whose research areas and interests include new media and digital art, activism, the Internet, and biotechnology. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, she holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco, and received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts.</div><div><p>She is currently the managing editor for Hyphen magazine and a member of research collective The Civic Beat. Her work appears in art21, Art Practical, Daily Serving, Hyperallergic, and Public Art Dialogue. She has lectured and spoken at the De Young museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Stanford University, School of Visual Arts, and more. Her essay “Materiality to Machines: Manufacturing the Organic and Hypotheses for Future Imaginings,” will be published The Routledge Handbook of Biology for Art and Architecture in 2016. She serves as executive staff for the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism, board member for the SOMArts Cultural Center, and teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Digital Art and New Media department.</p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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