Elle Mehrmand

She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music collective who create dark, electronic, middle eastern, and rhythmic jazz rock. Elle received her MFA from UCSD, and received her BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. She is a researcher at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts[http://crca.ucsd.edu Center for Research in Computing and the Arts website] and the b.a.n.g. lab{{Cite web |url=http://bang.calit2.net/tag/elle-mehrmand/ |title=b.a.n.g. lab, web pages featuring elle mehrmand |access-date=January 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091210175937/http://bang.calit2.net/tag/elle-mehrmand/ |archive-date=December 10, 2009 |url-status=dead }} at UCSD.

Mehrmand's latest performances explore holographic technology. At the University Art Gallery's "Archive Fever" series, Mehrmand performed "Robert Breitmore will bring a Hologram" using a transparent screen from Reintek.{{Cite web |url=http://universityartgallery.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/hanswiegand.shtml |title=Archive Fever- Poetry, Performance, and Dance |access-date=March 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720080133/http://universityartgallery.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/hanswiegand.shtml |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

In November 2010, Mehrmand performed Becoming Transreal[http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/transreal.html Becoming Transreal, Center for Performance Studies] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720072941/http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/transreal.html |date=July 20, 2011 }} with Micha Cárdenas at the UCLA Freud Playhouse.Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, p. 116 (Seal Press, 2010) {{ISBN|978-1-58005-308-2}}. Found online at [https://books.google.com/books?id=N7htOu37OREC&dq=Elle+Mehrmand&pg=PA116 Google Books]. Accessed March 12, 2011. The performance demonstrates the interest in her work across disciplines, as it was supported by the UCLA Department of Theater, School of Theater, Film, and television, LGBT Studies, the Center for the Study of Women, The Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, and the Center for Research in Computing the Arts at UCSD and San Diego State University's Second Life Initiative, Aztlan Island. The performance was reviewed by Linzi Juliano for the Center for the Study of Women.{{Cite web |url=http://www.csw.ucla.edu/publications/newsletters/2010-2011/article-pdfs/DEC2010_Linzi.pdf |title=Review by Linzi Juliano, Center for the Study of Women |access-date=March 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004212551/http://www.csw.ucla.edu/publications/newsletters/2010-2011/article-pdfs/DEC2010_Linzi.pdf |archive-date=October 4, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

In January 2010, Mehrmand performed technésexual with Micha Cárdenas at Duke University's Visualization Technology Group's Interactive Studio.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hastac.org/events/visiting-artists-micha-c%C3%A1rdenas-and-elle-mehrmand-duke |title=Visiting Artists Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand at Duke |access-date=March 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726141844/http://www.hastac.org/events/visiting-artists-micha-c%C3%A1rdenas-and-elle-mehrmand-duke |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }} The performance was supported by Duke's Women Studies Department, Information Science + Information Studies, Art, Art history and Visual Studies and the Franklin Humanities Institute. The performance was followed up by an artist lecture at the Nasher Museum.{{Cite web |url=http://va-grad.ucsd.edu/~drupal/node/1283 |title=technésexual |access-date=March 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100619084759/http://va-grad.ucsd.edu/~drupal/node/1283 |archive-date=June 19, 2010 |url-status=dead }} Mehrmand's writing about technésexual has also been included in the peer reviewed journal Version.{{Cite web |url=http://version.org/textuals/show/17 |title=AROUSALS.ELLE+MEHRMAND.MICHA+CÁRDENAS .EROTIC+ELECTROSYMBIOTIC+ENCOUNTERS .032310 |access-date=March 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110323143612/http://version.org/textuals/show/17 |archive-date=March 23, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Mehrmand's work has been shown in numerous museums and galleries in 2010, including the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco[http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/eng/events/index.php?op=view&id=2206 The Transborder Immigrant Tool] and the Perform! Now! festival in Chinatown, Los Angeles.,OCMA, California Biennial, "[http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=upcoming]"MCASD, Here Not There Press Release, "[http://www.mcasd.org/about/press-room/news?AID=83] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003090644/http://www.mcasd.org/about/press-room/news?AID=83 |date=October 3, 2010 }}"Galeria de la Raza, Sustenance a play for all Trans[]borders, "[http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/eng/events/index.php?op=view&id=2206]"Perform! Now!, "[http://performnow.tumblr.com/]" Exhibitions in 2009 included "Intimate Simulations" at Lui Velazquez in Tijuana, among others.

Performances and talks in 2009 include technésexual at Arse Elektronika 2009 in San Francisco,Monochrom, Arse Elektronika 2009, "[http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/2009/performers.html]" at Artivistic 2009 in MontrealArtivistic, Video of technésexual – echolalia azalee and azdel slade at TURN*ON, "[http://artivistic.org/en/content/video-techn%C3%A9sexual-echolalia-azalee-and-azdel-slade-turnon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111232142/http://artivistic.org/en/content/video-techn%C3%A9sexual-echolalia-azalee-and-azdel-slade-turnon |date=January 11, 2010 }}" and at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Bogota, Colombia,Gaskins, Nettrice, Performative Interventions: The Progression of 4D Art in a Virtual 3D World, "[http://blog.art21.org/2009/12/31/performative-interventions-the-progression-of-4d-art-in-a-virtual-3d-world/]" Slapshock at Compactspace in Los AngelesCalit2 Life, Slapshock by Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas in LA Thurs Night, "{{cite web |url=http://life.calit2.net/archives/2009/06/slapshock-by-elle-mehrmand-and.php |title=Calit2*Life: Slapshock by Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas in LA Thurs Night |accessdate=2010-01-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124144847/http://life.calit2.net/archives/2009/06/slapshock-by-elle-mehrmand-and.php |archivedate=January 24, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}" Dorkbot Socal,Dorkbot Socal, Dorkbot SoCal 38, "[http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/]" Sextrument at Upgrade! Tijuana,Dream Addictive Labs, Upgrade! December 19, "[http://upgrade.dreamaddictive.com/2009/12/upgrade-december-19th/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106044221/http://upgrade.dreamaddictive.com/2009/12/upgrade-december-19th/ |date=January 6, 2010 }}" Something is HappeningSomething is Happening, "[http://visarts.ucsd.edu/something-happening/?author=18] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612214220/http://visarts.ucsd.edu/something-happening/?author=18 |date=June 12, 2010 }}" and UCSD Open Studios.UCSD Open Studios, "[http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2009/artists.php?a=Elle_Mehrmand]"

Assembly of Mazes has performed recently at the Long Beach Museum of Art,Assembly of Mazes, Long Beach Museum of Art, "[https://archive.today/20120712173337/http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&friendid=228752623&Band_Show_ID=38540615]" Gallery Azul, the Prospector and the Pasadena Gallery.

Mehrmand is a member of the Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 and the b.a.n.g. lab, whose project the Transborder Immigrant Tool received extensive media coverage in 2010 around the world in on the web[http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/13/transborder-immigran.html Boing Boing, The Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely] print,[http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/07/taxpayers-should-be-outraged-use-funds/ Taxpayers Should be Outraged by Use of Funds, San Diego Union Tribune] television[http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Border-Crossing-Theres-an-App-for-That-73938407.html Border Crossing: There's an App for That] and radio.{{Cite web |url=http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2009/11/24/cell-phone-doubles-as-coyote-phone-app-helps-immig/ |title=Phone App Doubles as Coyote, NPR Los Angeles, Southern California Public Radio |access-date=March 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628182446/http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2009/11/24/cell-phone-doubles-as-coyote-phone-app-helps-immig/ |archive-date=June 28, 2011 |url-status=dead }} The project has also been the subject of numerous academic papers, including "Reading the Transborder Immigrant Tool" at MLA 2011[http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2011/01/17/reading-the-transborder-immigrant-tool-mla-11/ Reading the Transborder Immigrant Tool, Mark C Marino, MLA 2011] and "The Transborder Immigrant Tool: Violence, Solidarity and Hope in Post-NAFTA Circuits of the Body Elec(tron)ic" at Mobile HCI 2010.[http://www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia/workshops/mobilehci/cardenas_the_transborder_immigrant_tool.pdf The Transborder Immigrant Tool: Violence, Solidarity and Hope in Post-NAFTA Circuits of Bodies Electr(on)/ic, Community Practices and Locative Media Workshop, Proceedings of Mobile Human Computer Interface 2010]

Her performance art work has been reviewed in Art:21, The Los Angeles Times,Haithman, Diane, Freephone Art Project offers the deported a chance to phone home*, "[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/05/freephone-project.html]" Reno News & Review,Bynum, Brad, Digital Graffiti, "[http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1318733]" Synthtopia,Synthtopia, Technesexual – Erotic Avant Garde Music Meets Second Life, "[http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/09/26/technesexual-erotic-avant-garde-music-meets-second-life/]" The UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and Furtherfield.org.Menotti, Gabriel, Artivistic: TURN*ON, "[http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=363] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091127183441/http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=363 |date=November 27, 2009 }}"

The band Assembly of Mazes' music has been reviewed in the OC Weekly,Segal, Dave, [Sprawl of Sound] Hommes & Femmes Vitales, "[http://www.ocweekly.com/2008-07-24/music/hommes-amp-femmes-vitales/]" ArtslantArtSlant, Photo of Assembly of Mazes Performance, "[http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/87111-assembly-of-mazes]" and Strung Out ZineBlackMagSG, Assembly of Mazes – SOZ – Interview, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMTQSnzhWTo]"

Mehrmand's erotic mixed reality work has been awarded the Emerging Fields Award from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts.{{Citation needed|date=November 2013}}

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• [https://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157622639538301/ Photos, Creative Commons Licensed]
• [http://www.myspace.com/assemblyofmazes Assembly of Mazes Myspace Page]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526162430/http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/491/432 UCSD Visual Arts Department, MFA Candidate Pages]

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