Amir Baradaran

Excited to announce our newly commissioned book by : “(Un)Desiring Whiteness: (Un)Doing Sexual Racism”(www.undesiringwhiteness.com)
My co-editors, Farvid, , and I are excited to share this collection’s call for proposals and invite you to register for our virtual seminar/launch to discuss the complex terrain of *x, , and
(Link in profile)
The launch will be held on 24 February 2021 (4-6pm EST)
Please do share widely if you can (and follow us on twitter )

We hope to attract contributions that are interdisciplinary, international, and possibly multimodal. The idea is to gather together many different perspectives to examine and interrogate the intersections of racism, s*xuality, and desire - and to explore possibilities for ‘unthinking and undoing s*xual racism’. We seek standard scholarly chapters as well as other modes like personal essays, poetry, art, and so on.

Congrats to all of those who worked hard and risked their lives to stop calamitous ! Now that we got canceled, what other policy from ’s platform we should pursue next?
A) MedicareForAll
B) Universal Basic income
C) Cancel Student Loan
D)

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In 2012 , I performed “Growing Panes” with 300 Augmented Reality glasses I had built for the opening of the Art Patrons Summit. Needless to say that these major art patrons, curators, writers, and critics showed no patience for my work, either fully ignored my work when they wrote about the summit, or used a few unkind words to describe it in their magazines, mostly, taking pride in throwing my ARt glasses in the garbage.

I wonder where those patrons are these days and if the has since augmented its reality, specially, during the pandemic...

Here’s my artist statement about the performnace:

In Growing Panes i built 300 Augmented Reality (AR) glasses to enhance the audience’s perception of and interaction with the “realness” of a work of art, and that of the museum itself. Playing with the nature of perceived “reality,” I wrote the, AR can be understood as a different human interface – a distinctive way of seeing, viewing, and interacting. Spectacle, nature, art, and technology are juxtaposed to query traditional utopian promises of technology...

Feelings of anticipation, expectation and disillusionment upon the “failure” of the device to electronically perform are parlayed into a deliberation of our hope of technological deliverance. The fulfillment of augmented memory, vision, safety and reality via technological determinism are examined and literally magnified in the piece. Symbols of empowerment are gifted to the audience, but like Nietzsche’s Ubermensch, the spectator must set their potential into action themselves.

Thanks and and others who have been supporting my work since then...

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I’m honored to be a part of this amazing group of speakers at the upcoming Designing for Empathy Virtual Summit: Shaping the Future of Empathy-Building!
Thanks for organising this incredible journey that started 2 years ago with HH , following with the
book that was published including a chapter on our work, Immersive Experiences AR/VR and the notion of otherness as it pertains to empathy and compassion.
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