Posts By: Nancy Mauro-Flude

Vvitching out for each other: Activating the Textures of Post-Digital Aesthetics

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, March 20, 2019

Practitioners who engage with post digital aesthetics are concerned with processes in art-making and conceptual frameworks that assume digitality rather than treat it as an exception. Its tools are ubiquitous, situated, embedded with neoslime, embracing material speculation, curious imperfection, mawkish plasticity, rather than a transhuman sterilised alien ideal of perfection. The post digital has been [...]

Writing the Internet: Internet lore in Asia

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, August 21, 2018

In March 2018 colleagues and I and wanted to explore the topic of Writing for the Internet: Internet Life and Lore in Asia. Specifically calling the ‘event’ a workshop, our intention was engender a discursive experience in order to explore new methodologies, adherent to the content on topic – Digital Folklore in South East Asia. [...]

Valetudo: A Cultural Anti-Venom Approach

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, November 12, 2017

It seems a delicious irony that due to a recent Australian High Court ruling (27 October 2017) many Australian MPs, including the Deputy Prime Minister, are now ineligible to sit in parliament. Known as the “citizenship seven” case, the unfolding citizenship crisis in Australia has the potential to allow for radical constructions of (Australian) subjectivities to emerge, bringing to [...]

Zero Day: Science, Technology, Society and the Imagination

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, July 12, 2017

Zero Day: Science, Technology, Society and the Imagination, was a forum head  Tuesday, 28 March 2017 Tembusu College. This symposium was convened by Dr Margaret Tan, Associate Professor Lonce Wyse (in absentia) and Assistant Professor Nancy Mauro-Flude, jointly organised by the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), and Tembusu [...]

Interceptions at ArtScience Museum Singapore

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, May 12, 2017

Interceptions was held at ArtScience Museum Singapore – a series of Random Blends 2017 the 9th annual Department of Communications and New Media (CNM), National University Singapore Media Design Showcase. This year the theme Interceptions is a creative forum for radical thinking about the dynamic role new media and communication play in the world today, [...]

Go through the walls, walk on the blockchain ledgers: Techne/Technique/Technology

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, January 9, 2017

Oh go through the walls; if you must, walk on the ledges of roofs, of oceans; cover yourself with light: use menace, use prayer…My sleepers will flee toward another… – Jean Genet  This is a quote that I put at the start of piece of writing ‘Methodologies of Risk: Experiential Prototyping, Hands-On Practice and Critical [...]

Call for Artworks :: Microbites of Innovation :: ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference 2017

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, January 3, 2017

ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference 2017 :: National Gallery of Singapore Call for Artworks :: Microbites of Innovation :: Submit Proposals by 13 January 2017 The Creativity and Cognition 2017 conference will bring together a unique selection of international artists with diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds. The conference’s ‘Microbites of Innovation’ Art Track is an exciting opportunity [...]

The Divine Trash Strata – Ghetto Bienalle – Port au Prince.

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, November 25, 2016

…the clue lies there…symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum. – Philip K. Dick In late 2009 I went to Haiti, invited to take part in the first Ghetto Bienalle – Port au Prince. I was hosted by a community of artists called Artis Resistanz – who combine [...]

Radical Networks and the future of human machine connectivity

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, October 11, 2016

  Radical Networks is a festival and symposium – three days of speakers, panels, workshops, and an art exhibit designed to introduce the community to DIY networking, in Partnership with EyeBeam, Hosted by  ChemCreative  Brooklyn, NY. See the archives of the amazing array of events which were were streamed and recorded by The Internet society. Learn [...]

Divination A modern day pirate girl tale – personal data is the new treasure chest of gold.

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, August 31, 2016

I am currently in post production of a new work *Divination*, the maiden voyage performance of Pyrate Queen and her crew, set sail for the duration of Dark Mofo 10–19 June 2016. This networked performance installation I was artistic director, writer and performer and the was presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania and Dark Mofo 2016. *Divination* was a live performance installation. [...]