Hunar Symposia 2022: Session 1A Digital Politics

Описание: Hunar Symposia 2022: Delivered alongside an international art exhibition, the event sought to amplify marginalised voices from across the globe by bringing together scholars and arts practitioners to explore imaginative and critical responses to conflict, and to reflect carefully on intersecting and ongoing histories of State violence, colonialism, dispossession, and other forms of traumatic social upheaval. email [email protected] or visit https://hunarsymposia.com/

Speaker bios and papers presented:
Kawsar Ali - Connecting on country: Indigenous Aesthetics and Digital settler colonialism
Kawsar Ali is a Doctor of Philosophy candidate and sessional academic at Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia, in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts,
Language, and Literature. Kawsar investigates the links between race, power, and the Internet, interrogating what she has coined “digital settler colonialism.” She writes at onlineother.com.

Caitie Gutierrez - From the digital front lines of meme warfare

Caitie Gutierrez (they/fae) is a mental health consumer advocate, digital creator, and writer from Lenapehoking (New York) who has been living on Gadigal Country (Sydney) for the last 7 years. As a queer and biracial Nuyorican with complex PTSD and chronic illness, they draw on their lived experiences of complex trauma to explore topics like mental health, chronic illness, queerness, grief & loss, suicide, intergenerational trauma, ancestral healing, and dismantling internet cults through writing and memes full of childhood nostalgia.

Guy Lobwein - Consuming Conflict: VR and Military Entertainment in contemporary art

Guy Lobwein is a PhD Candidate in the School of Creative Practice at Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on adapting the experimental creative processes of the 1920s Avant-Garde for artmaking in game engines and immersive installation. Working extensively with virtual reality technology, immersive multi-media spaces, and contemporary art installation, he has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally.