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New Media is Mediumly Old

April 8, 2003By kanarinka

New Media ArticleAn article for the online magazine Big, Red & Shiny that surveys the New Media Art scene in Boston, MA. Read here.

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“Going Viral” is an opportunity to think with “Going Viral” is an opportunity to think with the logics and lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic about the ways that intimacy, mobility, information, body, nation, gender, and sexuality are imbricated through viruses, and other transmittable forms. Is the virus airborne? The constantly shifting data on how the Coronavirus spreads has reconfigured breath and other normative bodily habitations, from mask-wearing and hand sanitizing, to elbow-taps and grocery wiping. Through what fluids is the virus transmitted? Covid-19 has required reconsiderations of physical intimacy, with cities even publishing sex guides. The governance of intimacy is all too familiar to people considered “at risk” of HIV infection: queer and trans people, sex workers, migrants, and drug users. Does the virus know gender? Computer viruses named Melissa and ILOVEYOU signal how gender, intimacy, and affect become vectors for digital migrations. But along with viruses travel techniques of care and survival that are distinctly gendered; consider the recurring report that nations with women leaders handled pandemic response better. Is racism the virus? Racist attacks have targeted Asian people, casting them as originators and spreaders of Covid-19. HIV, Ebola, H1N1, and Avian Flu have each been attached to particular racialized populations in ways that cast suspicion on their sexual and intimate proximities with humans and other animals. Further, reports of higher infection rates amongst Black and Latinx populations pulled the veil back on unequal structures of labor, housing, and access to medical care. The current pandemic is an accumulation of many viral histories. This panel invites scholars to draw form their original research to explore the traffic in viral discourse and the pathways of transmission—of data, bodies, feelings, ideology—through feminist, queer, and trans lenses. Live captioning will be provided. Cc @gcwsatmit URL - https://www.gcws.mit.edu/gcws-events-list/feminisms-unbound-going-viral
Call for Participation: Apply now for Feminist Fut Call for Participation: Apply now for Feminist Future(s)! This May, we invite you to join our month-long hackathon and community event series where we will practice care, collectivity, and radical imagination to dream and build feminist future(s) in which people and the planet thrive. In teams mentored by community organizations, we will design interventions for four topic areas: Reproductive Justice The Care Economy Prison Abolition Environmental Justice From art activism, to community gardens, to planning for mutual aid, we know that innovation doesn’t need to be high-tech to be high-impact. While we’re all tired of Zoom, we aim to create a virtual space that is caring, inclusive, and joyful. What's more, we want to recognize that participation is labor! Each of our 50 participants will receive a $250 stipend for the month. Apply by March 26 — WWW.OURFEMINISTFUTURES.COM More information: Check out our FAQ Learn more on our website Contact us at ourfeministfutures@mit.edu with any questions Brought to you by @alexis_hope, @mqqt_ , @jennsroberts, @josephinehoy, @kanarinkaprojects, and @promethea who are the Feminist Futures organizing team and members of the “Make the Breast Pump Not Suck!” collaborative. With support from the Data + Feminism Lab and the MIT Media Lab.
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Please join Massachusetts Institute of Technology Please join Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a public lecture by artist Erin Genia @erin_genia_studio Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate/Odawa, (she/her) titled “Declaring a Cultural Emergency” Genia is an artist in residence with the City of Boston, and has been working with the Department of Emergency Management on adapting their methods to deal with the cultural emergencies of climate change, settler colonialism, systemic racism, white supremacy, patriarchy and toxic individualism. This spring, Genia is also in residence with the 11.458 Crowd Sourced City class at MIT where students are helping design civic tech and media platforms to support her work to decolonize Boston’s public art, monuments and heritage landscape. Declaring a Cultural Emergency Public talk by Erin Genia Date & time: Monday, March 15th, 10am - 11am Register here: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsdOGprj4tH9CU2Rr3XS9vGRbJfgLaWbjh Supported by: The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Partners: Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture/City of Boston, Mayor’s Office of Equity/City of Boston, the Data + Feminism Lab and the MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning (DUSP)
Today is my partner’s birthday and I made this! Today is my partner’s birthday and I made this! Among many sad times of the pandemic was our little Covid kitten who passed away of a congenital heart condition at the age of 5 months. We have a special rock in the neighborhood to remember him - the Oz Rock. Whenever we walk by we touch the rock and say hello. So this is the magic Oz Rock and the majestic Oz kitten beaming up and down from his sky business.
I’m so honored to publish this new article co-wr I’m so honored to publish this new article co-written with Dr. Katlyn Turner and @space.enabled who are based at the @mitmedialab. It is called “The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook” and details how the firing of #TimnitGebru from @google comes straight out of a centuries-old playbook used to try to silence Black women who speak truth to power. It was just published in the State of AI Ethics Report Jan 2021 by Montreal AI Ethics Institute. Beautiful diagram by @mqqt_
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WOMXN TAKE THE STREETS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12TH, 202 WOMXN TAKE THE STREETS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12TH, 2020 7:00 PM Currently, only 7% of the people commemorated in Cambridge’s street names are women. A fraction of these are women of color. Join us for an intergenerational conversation on how to create more just and equitable public spaces in Cambridge; where the lives and voices of Cambridge womxn are uplifted and our streets, monuments, and memorials better reflect the rich diversity of our city. Councillor E. Denise Simmons @e_denisesimmons Professor Catherine D'Ignazio, Director of the MIT Data + Feminism Lab MIT @mitdusp and Harvard Urban Planning students, Clara Amenyo, Osamu Kumasaka & Lenna Johnsen, who highlighted these disparities by creating an Instagram filter, street map, and playing cards featuring Cambridge women. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/114798796290
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