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Speculative Trainers- Large Language Models and Techniques of Affirmative Speculation

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XCI Intimacy in Contact Improvisation Aramo Olaya

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SEVDALIZA - HUMAN  CONTACT IMPROVISATION

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After Encuentros de contact improvisacion y desvios queer improvisation at Reina Sofia Museum

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The Great Transition: An exercise of feeding the machine's unconscious

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The Great Transition - Fictional science and science fiction

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UNED 2024 Asturias

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levin Molecular bioelectricity in developmental biology_ New tools and recent discoveries - Levin - 2012 - BioEssays - Wiley Online Library

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Phantom Penis  Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment

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I am a queer movement researcher and science fiction writer at the intersection of Practice as Research and Science and Technology Studies based in UC Davis in California. I approach movement as a world-building research method.

I investigate touch as language, critical utopias of somatic communication, and bioelectrical transmaterialities, with particular attention to trans and non-binary experiences. I develop speculative practices of touch, writing, movement, and technological entanglement that generate experimental forms of embodied knowledge.

Alongside academic writing, I author long-form science fiction that spans centuries of imagined futures, where gender, technology, and movement are entangled with the Earth.

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Lighting talk on Somastrobiology Performance Studies Forum UC Davis Oct 2024

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WAU Congress South Africa Nov 2024

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Somatic Communication for a Care Protocol in First Contact with Aliens towards decolonial epistemologies and practices in SETI research

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How to Avoid Obliteration: Disability as a Model for First Contact - A Sign in Space Workshop

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The Anthropocene: What Now?  - David Grinspoon (SETI Talks 2017)

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Humpback Whale Soirée! Featuring SETI Institute

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HUMPBACK WHALE SONG AND THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCEThe study of animal communication challenges our ideas of intelligence and informs the Se...

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Schrödinger's quantum 3d isotropic harmonic oscillator

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Faraday waves

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Glicering subjected to sound vibration creates a spine

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The art-science of cymatics. Patterns of vibration are regular

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sensitization of the skin and touch and being touched

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The Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies offers graduate students in affiliated PhD programs the opportunity to specialize in the methods and theoretical approaches of STS.

Doctoral students in the STS Designated Emphasis (DE) examine the relationships among science, technology, and society, focusing on the ways that science and technology impact our lives and shape cultures around the world.

The curriculum of the STS DE is flexible, allowing for specialized training in both the humanities and social sciences. Students can choose classes that will widen their academic knowledge and improve their research skills, giving them the tools to be successful interdisciplinary scholars. DE students also benefit from the thriving community of STS scholars on campus, a regular STS speaker series, and a range of STS events including the annual Summer Retreat, which draws faculty and grad participants from across the ten UC campuses.

Any PhD student in good standing from an affiliated program is eligible to apply to the Designated Emphasis and enroll in its courses. Those students whose topic of research includes a focus on the complex interactions among science, technology, and society will greatly benefit from the program. Students who complete the DE requirements will receive a transcript notation, and upon graduation their diploma will indicate a PhD with Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies.
Affiliated Programs and Faculty Admissions and Requirements Current Graduate Courses

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The Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies offers graduate students in affiliated PhD programs the opportunity to specialize in the methods and theoretical approaches of STS. Doctoral students in the STS Designated Emphasis (DE) examine the relationships among science, technology, and society, focusing on the ways that science and technology impact our lives and shape cultures around the world.

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Performance Studies Students - PerformanceStudies - 7 areas of study

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The Arts at the University of California, Davis

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And, to further relational intelligence through investigating Somatic Communication. Somatic communication lies within a territory that has been left out of the experiential equation, that which is not identifiable as either Mind or Body, because it is neither one more than the other.

Also, to develop transferable skills by dancers and affiliate researchers, for populations who will benefit from multi-level communication, communication that not only happens through multiple modes, but on multiple scales because of the investiture of the somatic.

Finally, to engage dance and movement practices in the development of strategic investigation, research practices, and research outcomes. .

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And, to further relational intelligence through investigating Somatic Communication. Somatic communication lies within a territory that has been left out of the experiential equation, that which is not identifiable as either Mind or Body, because it is neither one more than the other.

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SLSA Arizona State University 2023

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Performance Studies Symposium UC Davis 2023

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PSETI conference 2023

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Slide for Poster Touching with the alien