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
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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
FLOSS Audio Workshop
I’ll be offering my Getting Your Voice Out There Workshop at Gabfestry August, 2013. This workshop covers: — Getting a toolkit for lo-fi digital audio production. — DIY & low-cost strategies. — Using Audacity and other FLOSS softwares in general — Recording Techniques. — Finding copyright-free or copyleft samples. — Mixing and sharing your audio!… Continue reading FLOSS Audio Workshop
My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist
My Cunt Is A Muscle… is based on the wonderful Your Heart Is a Muscle 1999 woodcut by Dalia Sapon-Shevin, then a member of the Syracuse Cultural Workers, it was made as an inspiration to activists and a response to the state repression experienced during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999. Dalia’s… Continue reading My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist
On power
In preparation for the “Queer Power, Queer Vulnerability” talk I gave at the IVYQ conference last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about power… I think about it in many forms and am actually kind of obsessed. I think about resistance, social change, revolution and “people power.” The ways and means from which individuals and… Continue reading On power
Colleges Here I Come: Yale, Hampsire, New Paltz
On Friday Feb 8, I’ll be speaking at Yale at the IVYQ conference, on “Queer power, Queer vulnerability: BDSM, femme, and generating resistance in identity,” talking about personal instances where queers created joyous lives, structures for accountability, and modes of resilience that pushed that back on dualism, domination culture, and histories of shame. I’ll post… Continue reading Colleges Here I Come: Yale, Hampsire, New Paltz
#3 Digital Humanities Report: Creepy Art Possibilities
The DHWI Art in Odd Places award goes to: Digital Forensics & BitCurator BitCurator is a project that I’m rather excited about, although not wholly for the developers’ original reasons. It’s a set of Linux-based OSS’s which “incorporate the functionality of many digital forensics tools” for the purposes of humanities research and archiving. The site… Continue reading #3 Digital Humanities Report: Creepy Art Possibilities
#2 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report Back
Everything I viagra tabs did not take a course on: Data Sets, APIs, Random Links & Intersectionality I’ve been writing about the Digital Humanities Winter Institute, reporting on the Data Curation track here, and weird data archiving here. The DHWI was a faucet of information which I spongily absorbed, learning that I am especially apt… Continue reading #2 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report Back
#1 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report-back
I attended the Digital Humanities Winter Institute at UMD’s MITH, [http://mith.umd.edu] this past week, which meant I learned how to be a better researcher and overall nerd. Firstly, hooray for CUNY GC for co-sponsoring, including making graduate student scholarships available, which meant I could go. I enrolled in the Data Curation for the Digital Humanities… Continue reading #1 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report-back
Tactical Media and Disturbance Art
“The shift in revolutionary investments corresponds with a shift in the nature of power, which has removed itself from the streets and become nomadic.” — Critical Art Ensemble artist-tacticians, Qud in Rita Raley’s Tactical Media. Tactical Media Enter tactical media, a resistant form of cultural production that uses networked intelligence and digital forms to create… Continue reading Tactical Media and Disturbance Art