Jarah Moesch
Personal information
- First name
- Jarah
- Last name
- Moesch
- Job title
- Doctoral Student in American Studies; Graduate Assistant Digital Cultures + Creativity
- Institution
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Website
- http://www.thejarahtree.com
- Brief Bio
Jarah Moesch is a doctoral student in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and hold an M.F.A. in Integrated Media Art from Hunter College. Jarah is also affiliated with Digital Cultures and Creativity, a Living-Learning Honors program at UMD.
- Full Bio
Jarah Moesch is a doctoral student in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and holds an MFA in Integrated Media Art from Hunter College. Jarah is also affiliated with Digital Cultures and Creativity, a Living-Learning Honors program @ UMD.
Jarah’s research, artwork and teaching/learning are all multi-modal and trans-disciplinary, meaning that Jarah explores, learns and creates work through many different methods, academic disciplines and areas of interest.
One of Jarah’s key interests is the exploration and integration of theory, practice and process, resulting in multi-modal activist work, ranging from games, video, and installation to invisible performance and tactical social interventions. These explorations are foundational to how Jarah thinks, researches, and teaches, enabling Jarah to critically explore systems of oppression and power, and to apply queer theory to digital frameworks.
As a researcher Jarah focuses on (computer) code, softwares, platforms, and the production of space to re-think issues of power, gender, and queerness. Jarah's current research uses queer theory, phenomenology, and critical code studies to make ritualized processes visible, and to investigate how collective memory, standards and practices reify and produce sub-culture normativities.
Jarah’s artwork revolves around concepts of performance and gender-fluidities, sexualities and identities in everyday life through the intersections of power and ritual in public spaces. Jarah’s artwork has been shown internationally.
Interests
- Arts & Design
- Coding & Development
- HASTAC Conferences & Events
- Data & Information
- Games & Gaming
- Gender & Sexuality
- Geography & Location
- HASTAC Scholars
- Mixed & Augmented Reality
- Internet & Web 2.0
- Music & Sound
- Photography, Illustration & Images
- Digital Media & Learning
- Open Source, Open Access & Open Web
- Online Identity
- Social Networks & Social Media
- Race & Ethnicity
- Research & Methodologies
- Culture
- HASTAC
History
- Member for
- 1 year 46 weeks
- Blog
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