Xenological letters

tranxxeno lab interlocution sends letters about the activities of the tranxxeno lab and its explorations of the entanglements amongst entities trans (across, between, beyond) and xeno (strange, alien, other). This includes information about exhibitions, workshops, presentations, and performances, as well as experiments and nuggets of work from the studio and puncta of interest from research and daily life.

There are two newsletters you can subscribe to:

• letters from the tranxxeno lab, which is your standard informational newsletter that highlights important news from the lab (upcoming and past exhibitions, talks, workshops, and performances), as well as other updates. The frequency of this is around 6-12 times per year.
• fragments of xenology will offer more insights into the work of the laboratory, such as an intriguing experiment, fascinating artwork or machine, fragment of writing-in-progress, sound snippet, frustrating failure mode. This frequency of this newsletter is indeterminate, but will likely be more often than the aforementioned letters. Nevertheless, each transmission will also likely be shorter.

Rationale for these newsletters

I've been on the internet now for almost 30 years. Suffice it to say I've seen a lot of different ways of sharing our desires, our interests, our little bits and bobs. For me I think the height of this was around 2007-2011, when I would share fragments on tumblr, identi.ca, and del.icio.us quite regularly. Even if I didn't have a large audience then, I felt like I was building something and creating an archive of stuff that was useful, intriguing, and topical.

We all bemoan the downgrading of social media over the past few years, and there have been hundreds of attempts by developers and people to change the direction. Nothing has stuck. Hence my desire to re-assert ownership over this content, to host it locally, to curate it into an archive of my process.

I have built my own private system for doing this (https://gitlab.com/tranxxenolab/collectanea) and will continue using that for things that I don't want to be made public--at least at the moment. Nevertheless, I also have felt a desire to share more with the world about the process of the lab, yet I also don't want to only post on corporate platforms where I don't have control over the presentation, the people it is shown to, the archive. And, with the regime that will be running the US from 2025-2029, I want to migrate as quickly as possible from US-based platforms.

Hence these newsletters. Hence the archive of the posts here, on my own server.

Contact

For any questions about the newsletters, or for questions about your subscription or account, please contact support@tranxxenolab.net.