
Liliana Conlisk-Gallegos
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Bio
"Uncivil disruptor who doesn't know her place"
As an Optimus Prime Trauma Transformer con lengua de machete, I cannot help but experiment with EVERYTHING including art, virtual reality, and all forms of media.
With the goal of advancing the certain decolonial turn, my live, interactive media art production and rasquache performances generate culturally specific, collective, technocultural creative spaces of production that reconnect Chicana/o/x Mestiza Indigenous wisdom and conocimiento to their ongoing technological and scientific contributions, still currently "overlooked" through the logic of the decaying Eurocentric project of Modernity. As a transfronteriza (perpetual border crosser), the current limited perceptions of what research, media, and technology can be and do are like a yonke (junkyard), from which pieces are upcycled and repurposed to amplify individual and collective expression, community healing, and social justice.
I am a performer of research, a translator, a filter that collects, isolates, and exposes supremacist formats while finding a way to design hubs to compile digital collections of designs, expressions, and realities a nuestro modo.
So, how can I help you?
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara -- Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literature emphasis on Media Arts and Technology, Latin American Studies, and Chicano Border Studies
San Diego State University -- M.A. Spanish emphasis on Tijuana Border Literature
University of California, Berkeley -- B.A. in Rhetoric and Writing
Studied Abroad
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico for B.A.
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain for M.A.
Universidad Estácio de Sá, Río de Janeiro, Brazil for M.A.
Courses/Teaching
Fall 2022
Comm 4302 - Decolonizing Chiacana/o/x Latina/o/x Media and Culture
Online with optional Zoom sessions
Comm 3102 - Media, Culture, and Society Section 60
Online
Comm 3102 - Media, Culture, and Society Section 61
Online with optional Zoom sessions
Comm 6093 - Special Topics in Media Studies: Decolonial Theory/Methods
Online Zoom sessions Tuesdays 5:30 - 8:15 PM
Spring 2021
Comm 3339 - Xicana/o/x Border Film
Wednesday 4:00PM - 6:45PM
Comm 4302 - Decolonizing Chiacana/o/x Latina/o/x Media and Culture
Monday 4:00PM - 6:45PM
Comm 3102 - Media, Culture, and Society
Monday & Wednesday 1:00PM - 2:15PM
Specialization
See below
Research and Teaching Interests
Decolonial theory
Decolonial media and communication studies
Experimental Extended Reality Media and New Media Art Production
Digital Media Art Curatorial Work
Xicana feminist border studies
Indigenous studies
Queer Studies
Ethnic Studies
Latin American Studies