Catalog items: Expresso La Forza label | New Harvest Coffee logo | Baristas Rise Up Today we’re going to talk about my favorite thing in the morning, afternoon, and early evening: coffee. Even though I feel complicated about the use of raised fists for logos, I accept all things about coffee. It’s GREAT there are other hyper… Continue reading Delicious Coffee In a Raised Fist
Author: femmetech
Raised Fist[ing]
Raised fists in activist settings symbolize strength, unity, resistance, and community. Fists themselves have additional meanings: often one thinks of hitting or violence, but to the queer community an additional meaning lurks pruriently behind the surface. After raising for LGBTQ rights throughout the 1980s, and for AIDS activism in the 1990s, a confluence of fists and safer sex rhetoric emerged visually through the production of images of raised fists in gloves in the late 2010’s.
Workshop 3/11/14: Digital Cataloging and Archiving with Open Source Software
Tuesday March 11, 2014, 6:30–10pm workshop @ Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in NYC. Register online here. Creating and managing digital archives, catalogs, and collections is a growing concern as organizations seek to manage files and records, metadata-gather, and enable complex searches of their cultural production, ephemera, archives and/or born-digital assets. This one-evening, two-part workshop goes… Continue reading Workshop 3/11/14: Digital Cataloging and Archiving with Open Source Software
Reuse, Repurposing, and Capitalizing on Raised Fist images
TODAY’s FISTS: Boss Revolution | Underdogs As raised fist images are used over more decades and with a broader variety of political meanings, the attentive viewer notices this icon used for advertising and marketing purposes that may seem to dilute or complicate the original political intentions for which this image is often used. Millenial media… Continue reading Reuse, Repurposing, and Capitalizing on Raised Fist images
Political Art Lectures for 2014
I’m writing to share resources for teachers looking for a NYC-based field trips for classes on art/politics/sociology/archives, etc: INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE ON-SITE TOURS I recently began an appointment as the Resident Scholar at the Interference Archive [www.interferencearchive.org], a public archive of political art ephemera in Brooklyn. See a NY Times article on us here. We offer… Continue reading Political Art Lectures for 2014
Political Art & Examining an Archive
What makes art activist? What makes it political? Does who is using it matter? I recently taught an interactive workshop on activist printmaking and political art at the Interference Archive, where I currently volunteer on the cataloging team and work on my political art research as the Resident Scholar. Read more about political art and… Continue reading Political Art & Examining an Archive
Political art and Examining an Archive
Reprinted from The Interference Archive, http://interferencearchive.org/examining-the-archive-lecture-on-activist-posters/ What makes art activist? What makes it political? Does who is using it matter? The Interference Archive is uniquely situated as both a living collection of activist cultures and ideas, and a site of popular education and engagement with these ideas. One way we integrate these facets is by… Continue reading Political art and Examining an Archive
Raised Fist Slideshow in Pittsburgh 10/23
The Fist Is Still Raised Slideshow Weds Oct 23, 7pm at The Big Idea Cooperative What do The Lavender Left, Food Not Bombs, radical labor organizers, 1970s feminists, the IWW, Black Power, OWS, anti-imperialist organizing, and fisting have in common? They — and many more — all use illustrations of the raised, clenched fist in… Continue reading Raised Fist Slideshow in Pittsburgh 10/23
How to Build a Fire: website, community engagement (2010)
Small artist groups and arts organizations need websites, too! For the How To Build A Fire 2010 art tour, I created a web presence, a PDF one-sheet, and curated and produced booking engagements in Texas and Montreal.
Sites for Community Organizations
I’ve made full sites for several community organizations*, working with them to determine the important content, message, and look of their site — and to ensure that they can use it after I’ve moved on to the next project. 2012 Femme Conference, WordPress + Buddypress, 2012 [image forthcoming] Idyll Dandy Acres, HTML/CSS, 2011 Femme Family,… Continue reading Sites for Community Organizations