Girl Employee

Ep. 29 - What are XenoVisual Studies?

Morgane Billuart and Carmen Hines

Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Carmen discussed XenoVisual Studies with Mar Osés, Pilar del Puerto, and Esther Rizo-Casado, a collective network for artistic experimentation and critical thought that examines how emerging technologies redefine visual aesthetics, influencing our perception of reality, identity, and society.

- XenoVisual Studies, 2024, www.xenovisualstudies.com

- Hester, H. (2018) Xenofeminism. Polity Press.

- Laboria Cuboniks. Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation. (2015) laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/xenofeminism-a-politics-for-alienation/

- Rizo-Casado, E. (2024) Xeno-Tuning: Dissolving Hegemonic Identities in Algorithmic Multiplicity. A Peer Review Journal About. https://aprja.net//article/view/151237

- Konior, Bogna (2016) M. Alien Aesthetics: Xenofeminism and Nonhuman Animals. 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, HongKong.

- Hester, H. (2024) After Work. Verso Books

- n1x. (2018) Gender Acceleration: A Blackpaper. The Anarchist Library, theanarchistlibrary.org/library/n1x-gender-acceleration-a-blackpaper

- Hito Steyerl. (2016) A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition. E-Flux Journal, no.72, www.e-flux.com/journal/72/60480/a-sea-of-data-apophenia-and-pattern-mis-recognition

- Bottici, Chiara (2017) From the Imagination to the Imaginal Politics, Spectacle and Post-Fordist Capitalism. Social Imaginaries, vol. 3, no. 1, Philosophy Documentation Center. https://doi.org10.5840/si2017314.


Spanish References

- Steyerl, H. (2025) Medios Calientes. Caja Negra.

- Laboria Cuboniks. (2022) Nuevos Vectores del Xenofeminismo. Editorial Holobionte. 

- Navarro, T. (2024) Xenofilia Algorítmica. Podcast. https://soundcloud.com/xenovisual-studies/xenofilia-algoritmica-por-toni-navarro

- Otero, M. El Almacenamiento de Datos como Compost Computacional. https://soundcloud.com/xenovisual-studies/marina-otero

- Presentación de Xenoimage Dataset:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzMsNSttBY&t=1s

- Gómez Gabriel, N. (2023) Traumacore. Crónicas de una disociación feminista. Cielo Santo.