azdel slade / micha cardenas

Micha Cárdenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a transgender artist, theorist and trouble maker. She will be a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at UCSD in Fall and Winter of 2009. She is an Artist/Researcher in the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2. Her interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at Transreal.org. Micha holds an MFA from the University of California San Diego, an MA in Media and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from Florida International University. Micha recently joined the Lui Velazquez space in Tijuana as a curator and collective member. She has exhibited and performed in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and many other places. Micha has received grants from UCIRA, calit2 and Ars Virtua and her work has been written about in publications including the LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune, .dpi magazine and Rolling Stone Italy.