Event 3: xtine burrough

  A screenshot of xtine burrough and Margaretha Haughwout

I attended an event with xtine burrough, and I learned a lot regarding connections between art and technology. burrough immerses audiences through the connections between media art, remix, and digital poetry and through art as a tool for examining the boundaries between technology and humans (“xtine burrough”). She is a Professor and Area Head in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at UT Dallas and also an author who has written, edited, and co-edited many books (“xtine burrough”).


A photo of the cover of Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change (“Art As Social Practice: Technologies for Change”)


burrough discussed her books, Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design and Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change, and their meanings to her, others and the realms of art and technology (burrough). It was fascinating to hear directly from her and the other authors about the books. In Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change, she told us about how artists raise consciousness and create social change through new technologies, creative practices and art (burrough). She said she wrote the introduction in the style of an interview, and the idea stems from her other work Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design.


“Syntonic Refuge” from LabSynthE (“Portfolio: LabSynthE”)

To begin her discussion of art for social change, she showed a view of G. Roy Levin, the founder of Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he discussed being open, collaboration, and artists responding to their communities (Vermont College of Fine Arts). She said she uses this advice and education in her approach to create art invested in a social domain and transformation (burrough). In regard to art-based research, burrough thinks about art as both a creative practice and a scholarly production. Through making the work, she becomes motivated and curious to do further research, ask more questions, and learn how different fields intersect. She also covered her project called LabSynthE, where she creates synthetic and electronic poetry (“Practice: LabSynthE”).


Haughwout’s “After Life (We Survive)” (Tagle)


Margaretha Haughwout, a co-author of Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change, spoke about the Coven Intelligence Program, a techno-botanical program that aims to combine technologies and connections between witches, plants, and machines (“Coven Intelligence Program”). In this unique collaborative form, she said, “We implicate ourselves in specific histories, ecologies and certain magical practices.” She also discussed an exhibition called “After Life (We Survive),” involving a ritual with a sphere that works between time and space; it is part of “circle casting” or “sphere casting.” She also converted the written word into binary and created a pattern, which is pictured below.


Haughwout showing us her written word transformed into binary



My Zoom Registration


Works Cited

“Art As Social Practice: Technologies for Change.” xtine burrough,http://www.missconceptions.net/index.html#projects. Accessed 20 May 2022.

“Coven Intelligence Program.” YBCA, 9 November 2020,

            https://ybca.org/after-life-coven-intelligence-program/. Accessed 20 May 2022.

“Portfolio: LabSynthE.” UT Dallas Research Labs,

            https://labs.utdallas.edu/labsynthe/portfolio/. Accessed 20 May 2022.

“Practice: LabSynthE.” UT Dallas Research Labs,

            https://labs.utdallas.edu/labsynthe/practice/. Accessed 20 May 2022.

Tagle, Thea Quiray. “Margaretha Haughwout.” YBCA, 21 December 2020,https://ybca.org/artist/margaretha-haughwout/. Accessed 20 May 2022.

Vermont College of Fine Arts. “G. Roy Levin talks the MFA in Visual Art at VCFA.” YouTube, 28 January 2015,

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzJb5PEx7s. Accessed 20 May 2022.

burrough, xtine. (2022). “Art as Social Practice." DESMA 9. Guest lecture at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 18, 2022.

“xtine burrough.” Xtine Burrough, http://www.missconceptions.net/bio.html. Accessed 20 May 2022.

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