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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.

Montse Romaní is a researcher and cultural producer mostly based in Barcelona (Spain). She has worked extensively in the fields of post-Fordist work-conditions, collaborative art practices, the transformations of urban spaces, gender and visual culture. As a programmer, she collaborates with the International Women’s Film Festival, Barcelona since 2003. http://www.mostrafilmsdones.cat/

Studied visual art and visual communication in Berlin and Geneva. Worked as graphic designer, curatrice and artist. Actually, professor(trice) in the School of art and design, Geneva, section visual communication. Ongoing project with pre-school kids on gardening as an "artistic" practice - an attitude towards live