Thinking Through Form: Meet the 2013 JWTC Participants
Zach Blas
Zach Blas, Mask-Wearer
Zach Blas is an artist-theorist whose work engages
technology, queerness, politics, and experimental research. He is the creator
of art group Queer Technologies, a founding member of The Public School Durham,
and a PhD candidate in The Graduate Program in Literature, Information Science
+ Information Studies, and Visual Studies at Duke University. Zach has recently
exhibited and lectured at Beta-Local,
San Juan, Puerto Rico; The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada; Center for 21st Century
Studies, Milwaukee, WI; Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool,
United Kingdom; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA; The HTMlles, Montreal, Canada;
Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain; MIX NYC, New York; transmediale, Berlin,
Germany; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, where he co-curated the 2011
group exhibition Speculative. Zach has published writings in Leper Creativity,
No More Potlucks, Rhizome, Version, Women Studies Quarterly, and co-edited The
Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities. He holds a Master of
Fine Art, Design Media Arts, University
of California Los Angeles. www.zachblas.info
The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism is an independent platform for critical social analysis based at the University of the Witwatersrand. It is intended for intellectual stimulation, exchange and sustained interaction around the work of noted scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and the emerging fields of critical legal and science studies.
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