MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Legacy Russell, the founding theorist behind Glitch Feminism as a cultural manifesto and movement. #GLITCHFEMINISM aims to use the digital as a means of resisting the hegemony of the corporeal.

Glitch Feminism embraces the causality of "error" and turns the gloomy implication of "glitch" on its ear by acknowledging that an error in a social system disturbed by economic, racial, social, sexual and cultural stratification and the imperialist wrecking-ball of globalization—processes that continue to enact violence on all bodies—may not be "error" at all, but rather a much-needed erratum. The glitch posits: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a body." The digital is a vessel through which our glitch "becoming" realises itself and through which we can reprogram binary gender coding. Our "glitch" is a correction to the machine.

Russell is a writer, artist and cultural producer. Born and raised in New York City's East Village, her work can be found in a variety of publications worldwide: BOMB, The White Review, Rhizome, DIS, The Society Pages, Guernica, Berfrois, and more. Holding an MRes of Visual Culture with Distinction from Goldsmiths College at University of London, her academic and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, idolatry and new media ritual. Her first book Glitch Feminism is forthcoming from Verso. Learn more at legacyrussell.com.

Talk

Legacy Russell, "Glitch Feminism"

Room 101C