Micha Cardenas / Azdel Slade (http://transreal.org) is an artist/theorist whose transreal work mixes physical and networked spaces in order to explore emerging forms of queer relationality, biopolitics and DIY horizontal knowledge production. She is a lecturer in the visual arts department at UCSD. She is an artist/researcher with UCSD Medical Education and the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2. Her forthcoming publications include "Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study" in the book Code Drift from CTheory, "I am Transreal" in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation from Seal Press and Trans Desire from Atropos Press. Her current collaboration with Elle Mehrmand, “Mixed Relations,” was the recipient of the UCIRA Emerging Fields Award for 2009.