#bottlesNbones

by Jamie "Skye" Bianco    |   Ecologies: Trash, Toxicity, Transmission, Issue 3 (2014)

ABSTRACT     #bottlesNbones is one part of a multi-site project, #trashNtoxicity examining the irremediable, abandoned, unrecycleable, and non-biodegradeable postnatural affects of human production.

[This article was originally published at http://lateral.culturalstudiesassociation.org/issue3/ecologies/bianco. A PDF the original version has been archived at https://archive.org/details/Lateral3.]

Author Information

Jamie "Skye" Bianco

Jamie "Skye" Bianco is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. She is a queer, feminist and site-based digital media theorist, performer and practitioner whose multimodal work investigates ecologies of trash, toxicity, disaster, bodies and the extra-human agencies and affections produced by them. She composes and remixes still images, sound, video, animation, theory and lyrical prose in multimodal performative, web-based, computational/algorithmic and installation formats. Selected multimodal work appears in O-zone, The Petroleum Manga (Punctum, 2014) Debates in Digital Humanities (Minnesota, 2012), The Affective Turn (Duke, 2007), FibreCulture, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, and Rhizome, and she was selected as a local artist for the 2013 Carnegie International exhibition/catalogue. She is also Design Editor and Lead Designer for CSA’s Lateral and the co-organizer with Melissa Rogers of CSA’s inaugural makerSpace at the 2014 conference. She received a Ph.D. in women’s studies and English from the City University of New York.