[15][16][17] cárdenas' work Sin Sol, Forest Memory (2018) created in collaboration with Abraham Avnisan, was included in the group exhibition, “Between Bodies,” curated by Nina Bozicnik, at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, October 27, 2018 — April 28, 2019[18] and reviewed in Art in America, March, 2019[19] and The Seattle Times, January, 2019.
In December, 2017, MIT Press published Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility,[34] which contains Cárdenas's chapter "Dark Shimmers: The Rhythm of Necropolitical Affect in Digital Media.
a few moments of time in the months of June and July 2016, during which extreme violence against trans, black, and Latinx people occurred repeatedly, rhythmically.
[38] Additional published works include the 2010 essay "Technesexual Interface: Erotic Mixed Reality Performance,"[39] co-authored with Elle Mehrmand.
Cárdenas' monograph Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media was published by Duke University Press in 2022.
[40] In 2020, Cárdenas's augmented reality artwork Sin Sol won the Impact Award[41] at the Indiecade Festival of Independent Games.
[42] Previously, Cárdenas was Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Design and Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.