Dr. Lissette Olivares
Lissette Olivares, Ph.D. is a
Transmedia Architect of Speculative Pasts, Presents, and Futures.
Lissette is a transmedia storyteller committed to speculative feminism,
eco-social justice, and decolonization. As an artist-activist, her work
engages cyborg consciousness, postanthropocentric imaginaries, and
anthrozoology using diverse technologies that include creative writing,
performance, intervention, experimental film, architecture, design
fiction, and multimedia installation.
In 2003, together with Cheto
Castellano, she cofounded
Sin Kabeza Productions, an artist-activist
research platform dedicated to the creation and dissemination of
experimental transmedia. In 2012, Sin Kabeza Productions was recognized
for their activist arts practice through A Blade of Grass Foundation’s
inaugural Artist Files Fellow Program; that same year they were invited
to participate as artist-researchers in dOCUMENTA(13).
As a curator she
investigates corporeality in new media practices using a transnational
perspective, most recently in Emergent Ecologies. In 2009, together with
Lucian Gomoll, she cofounded the Museum and Curatorial Studies Multi
Institutional Research Cluster, a platform responsible for the Task of
the Curator conference at UCSC (2010), A Symposium for Curatorial
Interventions (2011), a cross-campus initiative with keynote speaker
Rebecca Belmore at NYU, and the peer-reviewed online journal Museum and
Curatorial Studies Review.
Lissette is a graduate of the Critical Studies
Program at the Whitney Museum’s ISP, the History of Consciousness
Department at UCSC, Peking University, and Vassar College. She has
received the Fulbright, Andrew Mellon, Jacob K. Javits, and NYU Provost
Fellowship for Academic Diversity, amongst others. Her interdisciplinary
art practice has recently been supported by dOCUMENTA, NGBK, NanoEthics,
Institute for Cultural Inquiry-Berlin, Meinblau Project Room, DRIK
Magazine, DONAUFESTIVAL, HKW, Terreform ONE, and the Yinchuan Biennale,
amongst others. In 2016 she was an affiliated fellow investigating
Decolonial Errans at the ICI-Berlin.
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