Reminder ! Praba Pilar coming to town

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Reminder ! < Sorry for cross postings >


.. META FB.02 .. MONICA PRABA PILAR - New York (USA)

Monica Praba Pilar* will soon be in town for the second META FEMMES
BR@NCHEES event during the 3 special days to GET CONNECTED TO THE XX
NETWORK.

World premiere of New York / Colombian multimedia artist Monica Praba
Pilar1s performance ::
Computers Are a Girl1s Best Friend **
Thursday May 20th 7:00 pm at Le Local
7154 St-Urbain (close to Jean-Talon).
3$ members/ 5$ non-members

The following day the interactive seminar TechnoMythologius provides
Montrealers with a rare opportunity to work in a small group setting
with this very cool artist and activist.
TechnoMythologius ***
Friday May 21 10:00?12:00 + 2:00-5:00 at Studio XX
20$ members/ 30$ non members
Limited space ; registration required:
[email protected]
514.845.0289
Extra details :
http://www.studioxx.org/e/programming/FemmesBranchees/2004/cabaret_2004.php

All are welcomed to the events – please pass on the invitation !

* Monica Praba Pilar
A New York/Colombian multi-disciplinary artist, Praba Pilar has worked
on multiple projects in the public sphere through site installations,
public art, performances and websites. Her background in community work
and political activism establishes the platform from which she
artistically confronts the conflict between humanitarian, political and
economic motivations. She is currently focused on the intersections of
science, culture and community at this moment of convergence of advanced
technologies.

Since 1999 Praba Pilar has worked to increase dialogue around issues of
race and class in access to content production on the World Wide Web. As
a founding member of Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Critica, she works to
incite critical dialogue around evolving forms of ubiquitous computing,
wireless connectivity and the surveillance society. With Los Cybrids,
she has performed at the LAB gallery, the SF Museum of Modern Art, the
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and universities around the
United States.
http://www.prabapilar.com

** Computers Are a Girl1s Best Friend - A WORLD PREMIERE !
Appropriating De Beers Diamond Company's marketing strategy of producing
the 1953 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the theme song "Diamonds
Are A Girl's Best Friend", New York/Columbian performance artist Monica
Praba Pilar transposes the lyrics and dance routine into a new hit.
"Computers Are A Girl1s Best Friend" is an exploration of the
contradictions that exist between the hyperbolic rhetoric of the
computer industry and the real effects on the lives of women. The
performance features ribald musical theatre interspersed with
monologues, video montage, and audio excerpts of interviews with
cybertheorists Anne Balsamo and Paulina Borsook.

*** Interactive Seminar :: TechnoMythologius
10h-12h: Techno Santeros Mass performance; Q&A about the piece; video
excerpts.
12h-14h: LUNCH
14h-17h: Presentation and discussion of projects with Los Cybrids and
the Hexterminators: Q&A. Other video excerpts
Participants will be invited to work collectively to strategise on
counteracts of resistance.
Questions such as the following will be raised: What drives techno
visions of radical change, access and equality for all? Why is it that
we can1t critique technologies of control without being labeled a
Luddite? Does an unquestioned faith in technological change remain?

Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Critica is a junta of three poly-ethnic
cultural diggers of the Latino sort dedicated to the critique of
cyber-cultural negotiation via tecno-artistico activity. Los Cybrids
ascribe to the increasingly widening liminal spaces of culture,
hybridity and decentered identities reinforced by the new electronic
technologies.
http://www.prabapilar.com/pages/projects/cybrids.html
The Hexterminators : SuperHeroes of the Genetix Devolution is a group of
artists, activists and scientists that did multiple collaborative
installations, performances, panel discussions and university lectures
as part of an extended Carnavale of Biolife that explored the economic
and environmental impacts of biotechnology on communities of color
around the world.