from The Convergence Zone is a series of author readings, and artist talks and performances, sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. It brings together sometimes peaceable, sometimes combustible, fronts of discovery and experiment. This series brings to the (virtual) Seattle metropolitan area exciting writers and artists who "cross" and "trans" genres and media. It discusses and performs written arts in an expanded field. 

Registering for this event will provide access to the Thursday evening events in this series. For the Tuesday evening events, please refer to their event listings for the registration link.
 

October 29, 2020: Katherine Behar

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist and critical theorist of new media whose works exploring gender and labor in contemporary digital culture have appeared throughout North America and Europe. Pera Museum in Istanbul presented Katherine Behar: Data's Entry | Veri Girişi, a comprehensive survey exhibition and catalog, in 2016. Additional solo exhibitions include Katherine Behar: Backups at Framingham State University (2019) and Katherine Behar: Anonymous Autonomous at Robert Morris University (2018). Her 2014 solo exhibition and catalog, Katherine Behar: E-Waste, premiered at University of Kentucky before traveling to Boston Cyberarts Gallery. Since 2005 she has collaborated with Marianne M. Kim, exhibiting and performing as "Disorientalism." Behar has edited and authored books including Object-Oriented Feminism (University of Minnesota Press), And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art (punctum books; coedited with Emmy Mikelson), and Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity (punctum books). She is based in Brooklyn and is Associate Professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center.