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T Braun is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who creates virtual worlds and performances that challenge hegemonic notions of gender. Their Ph.D. uses autoethnography and participant observation work to explore how trans virtual reality enthusiasts envision the metaverse, create gender-affirming content, and form emergent, imaginative communities. They are currently conducting interviews and collaborating with other gender non-conforming artists in the social VR platform VRChat.
T Braun
T Braun is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who creates virtual worlds and performances that challenge hegemonic notions of gender. Their Ph.D. uses autoethnography and participant observation work to explore how trans virtual reality enthusiasts envision the metaverse, create gender-affirming content, and form emergent, imaginative communities. They are currently conducting interviews and collaborating with other gender non-conforming artists in the social VR platform VRChat.
Participant in the following FMS projects
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2021 – Present – PhD Student in the Humanities, Concordia University
2015 – MFA, Interdisciplinary Art, Montclair State University
2011 –BFA with Honours, Studio Art, University of Manitoba
mx.t.braun@gmail.com
tbraun.art
virtualqueerality.com
Presentations of Research-Creation
2023
Collaborative World Building: Co-creation and Social Engagement in Art and Art Education | Angewandte University of Applied Arts | Vienna, Austria | Presentation: Participatory Research and Collaborative Practices in Social VR
Inhabiting the planet: Challenges for media, communication, and beyond, organized by the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) | Lyon, France | Presentation: Virtual Queerality: Building Speculative Futures Through Virtual Reality
Art Forum lecture series | Montclair State University | Montclair. NJ | Presentation: Welcome to VRChat
2022
Scenographies of Site-Writing & Critical Spatial Practices Across the Americas, organized by Hemispheric Encounters | Concordia University | Montreal, QC | “Queer Digital Practices” Panel Presentation: Building Speculative Futures Through Virtual Reality
9th Emerging Ethical Scholars Symposium, organized by The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling | Concordia University | Montreal, QC | “Subversive Practices” Panel Presentation: Virtual Queerality: Conducting Field Work in Queer Social VR
2021
The New School for Social Research’s Anthropology & Design Conference | The New School | NYC, NY | Presentation: dermis: An Interactive VR Archive of Skin Stories
De/Reconstructing Gender Through Visual Art, Public Lecture | Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art | Winnipeg, MB
Brighton Digital Festival: Subverting Archives and Digital Spaces | University of Sussex | Brighton, England | Presentation: Embracing the Glitch in Queer Virtual Embodiment
Institute of Visual Communication Digital Conference: Artists at the Digital Border | Institute of Visual Communication | Beirut, Lebanon | Presentation: Virtual Queerality: Liminal Digital Queerness
Exhibition + Performance
2022
Villain Edit | Club Cumming | Manhattan, NY
Metaternity | Practice Gallery | Philadelphia, PA
Mythos | The Diving Bell | Montreal, QC
Confluence: Tradition in Contemporary Art | Sichuan Arts Institute | Chongqing, China 2022 Pink Lines: Enacting the Translocal | Queer Summer Institute | York University | Digital Cabaret 2021 Life is Drag | The Cell Theater | NYC, NY
2021
Exponential Festival | The Brick Theater | Brooklyn, NY
In 7 Experimental Video Residency and screening | Gardenship Art Center | Kearny, NJ 2020 Memories of the year 2030 | Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MS
2019
Lupercalia | Talon Bar | Brooklyn, NY
SalON! | Vital Joint | Brooklyn, NY
2017
Crossing the Line | Eastern Mennonite University | Harrisonburg, VA
2016
Who From Below video installation | Catharine Clark Gallery | San Francisco, CA
Ecohack 2016: The Temple of Taste and Remembrance | presented aboard SWALE: floating edible food forest | Brooklyn, NY
2015
Out of the Ash | Glasshouse LifeArtLab | Brooklyn, NY
2014
Nuit Blanche 2014: Reheading | La Petite Mort Gallery | Ottawa, ON
2013
My Winnipeg | Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art | Winnipeg, MB
Publications and Press
2023.
Protopian Glitching in Social VR | Cronos Journal | Queer/cuir Constellations and transmedia circulations in the Americas: Aesthetic Practises and Performative Dimension
2021
Virtual Queerality | Take Shape Magazine | Cyberspace Issue | January 2021.
2019
Ridgewood-Based Canadian takes on American Politics through Drag Performance | Bushwick Daily | October 25, 2019.
Art Collectives + Curatorial Work
2022
Co-curator for The Coop: A HEN Hangout | Hemispheric Encounters
2019 – 2021
Drag/Genderf*ck Curator at The Brick Theater
2017 – 2021
Member of AWFUL Wrestling performance collective
2015 – 2020
Founding member of Asylos performance art collective
2015
Co-founder of sacra performance duo (with Ayodamola Okunseinde)