<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>Rory Fewer and I would like to invite you all to the arts festival "Fold, Spindle, Mutilate" we have organized as part of our "Defying Defaults in Technology and Culture" UCHRI Multicampus Research Working Group. <span style="background-color:transparent">For more information and to register for this free event (refreshments provided!) this Saturday afternoon at UCR ARTS (</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/CbxZes8XuyrVBa3x5" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(53,107,137);text-decoration:none">3834 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">)</span></font><span style="background-color:transparent">, please visit <a href="https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/events/fold-spindle-mutilate/">https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/events/fold-spindle-mutilate/</a>. We have attached the program and flyer below; feel free to share these with anyone who might be interested!</span></div><div><br></div><img src="cid:ii_mu5r3kmr2" alt="Flyer_Fold, Spindle, Mutilate.jpg" width="320" height="452"><br><div>FOLD, SPINDLE, MUTILATE is a free arts festival inspired by the technologies and systems we often overlook—which can have grave consequences. Inspired by the warning “Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” written on punch cards for cashiers, data processing, the postal system, and more, the festival’s group of artists interprets these instructions across speculative poetry, a sound installation created with field recordings from the dune ecosystem of the Russian-Lithuanian border, a film screening about the 9th-century abbess/composer Kassia of Byzantium, a video projection of the durational performance <i>after-lived</i>, and an audiovisual installation/performance—each challenging the biases that loom large in institutions and state power. </div><div><br></div><div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside disc"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">12:00pm-1:00pm Arrival, refreshments, installation visits</font></li><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside disc"><font face="arial, sans-serif">1:00pm-2:00pm Beyond the Frame: Erasure, Photography, and Speculative Poetry workshop (Wenxin Tang, UCR)</font></li><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside disc"><font face="arial, sans-serif">2:00pm-2:45pm Radiant Center sound installation (Hanz Kuzmich, UCSC)</font></li><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside disc"><font face="arial, sans-serif">2:45pm-3:15pm Experimental film installation (Laila Shereen Sakr, UCSB)</font></li><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside disc"><font face="arial, sans-serif">3:15pm-3:55pm Video projection of durational performance after-lived (Lynne Marsh, UCR)</font></li><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside disc"><font face="arial, sans-serif">3:55pm-4:40pm KASSIA SOUND ICON film screening (Noah Amir Arjomand and Brett Umlauf, UCR)</font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