Production/Communication/Multimedia

Political art and Examining an Archive

November 25, 2013November 25, 2013 by femmetech

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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…

#3 Digital Humanities Report: Creepy Art Possibilities

January 21, 2013July 16, 2013 by femmetech

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The DHWI Art in Odd Places award goes to: Digital Forensics & BitCurator BitCuratorÂ 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…

#2 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report Back

January 13, 2013January 16, 2016 by femmetech

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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.Â The DHWI was a faucet of information which I spongily absorbed, learning…

#1 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report-back

January 11, 2013July 17, 2013 by femmetech

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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…

So Excited About Horizontal Networks and Radical Politics

March 15, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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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…

Link Roundup #2: 18th-C. crusty punks, SiSU, web tools for teaching, femme boys

February 20, 2012July 17, 2013 by femmetech

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1. Historical perversity, Arthur Mervynn [1799]. A young country boy who makes his way to the Big CityÂ 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…

Link Roundup #1: Wild (femme) Gender, Voltarine, Piracy

February 9, 2012March 16, 2015 by femmetech

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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…

Recent Web Collaborations: IDA & Philly Stands Up

October 13, 2010July 17, 2013 by femmetech

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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…

Print Design! Layout Software that doesn't cost more than your rent

October 11, 2010March 16, 2015 by femmetech

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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…

Postcards and the Art of Image Maintenance

June 22, 2010July 17, 2013 by femmetech

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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…

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