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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#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
So Excited About Horizontal Networks and Radical Politics
I just finished a few proposals for the Allied Media Conference — which I swear I will co-work on organizing one of these years! — and one that I’m particularly excited about is called “Out of the Streets and Into the Networks: Horizontal Digital Collaborations for Radical Projects.” I’ve been growing in my comfort level… Continue reading So Excited About Horizontal Networks and Radical Politics
Link Roundup #2: 18th-C. crusty punks, SiSU, web tools for teaching, femme boys
1. Historical perversity, Arthur Mervynn [1799]. A young country boy who makes his way to the Big City of Philadelphia in 1793 only to have terrible luck, then good luck as a friendly [?] man invites him to share his bed, then back luck again as people die and he destroys money by accident, then… Continue reading Link Roundup #2: 18th-C. crusty punks, SiSU, web tools for teaching, femme boys
Link Roundup #1: Wild (femme) Gender, Voltarine, Piracy
I’m going to instigate posting link roundups every few weeks, just because what goes through my life, and so my browser, is random as heck *and* I want to hoard-yet-share the places I’ve been. Here goes: 1. Feedback from the Femme Week of Action across the continent! Philly femme artist [and Heels on Wheels Roadshow… Continue reading Link Roundup #1: Wild (femme) Gender, Voltarine, Piracy
Recent Web Collaborations: IDA & Philly Stands Up
As someone who is committed to media justice and open access to technology for all — and a competent communications designer with a tiny bit of free time — I have been donating about five hours of media work a week to *non-funded* activist and cultural organizations. I get to collaborate, learn about the amazing… Continue reading Recent Web Collaborations: IDA & Philly Stands Up
Print Design! Layout Software that doesn't cost more than your rent
I love print design, and I’ve been at it for years; first my making zines in the 90’s and next by making newspapers, magazines and promotional media over the last ten years. So it makes sense that people ask me for tips and recommendations regularly. Some examples are this page from Femme2010 program, and my… Continue reading Print Design! Layout Software that doesn't cost more than your rent
Postcards and the Art of Image Maintenance
I’ve been up late these past few weeks, getting ready for Femme Pride Week, and working on media for the US Social Forum, where I’m teaching a DIY New Media workshop with Sarah Jenny, and Femme2010, the amazing femme conference that I’m Co-Media Chair of this year. Part of my favorite media strategy has always… Continue reading Postcards and the Art of Image Maintenance