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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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When are data useful and when are they a distracti When are data useful and when are they a distraction? How much data do we need to take action? Join us to discuss the strategic uses and limits of data-- Nov 21st 3pm GMT / 10 am EST, w. translation to ES/PT: bit.ly/DCFNOV2023
Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action is co Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action is coming out next spring from @mitpress! You can pre-order it with a 25% discount TODAY ONLY using the code PREORDER25 - link in bio. Note that you do have to sign up for a free membership with Barnes and Noble for this deal.
Join @wakingwomenhealingint and the @mitdusp Data Join @wakingwomenhealingint and the @mitdusp Data + Feminism Lab THIS WED at 11:30CT @cmnedu for a celebration & workshop. We have been working together for over a year on a #MMIW #MMIP resource and community defense map. Lunch provided!
Join our workshop on data collection on feminicide Join our workshop on data collection on feminicide and the launch of our platform for supporting feminicide monitoring! The event will feature Brazilian activists and the Data + Feminism Lab from MIT, who collaborate on the project Data Against Feminicide. On August 17th, at 4 PM (BRA, ARG, UY), 3 PM (ET), 2 PM (COL), 1 PM (MEX), 8 PM (Lisbon, UK), we will have activists from different regions of Brazil sharing their monitoring experiences, which have contributed to the development of our platform. Following this session, we will conduct a workshop on how to use the platform, which is free and available to the public. The event will be in Portuguese, with simultaneous translation into English and Spanish. Sign up by filling out the form (LINK IN BIO BC INSTAGRAM STUPID): https://forms.gle/X6w8mQg7YP2vYTsh6
Mourning a dear mentor and supporter today. George Mourning a dear mentor and supporter today. George Fifield, new media curator and tireless supporter of local Boston arts and artists passed away in recent days. We taught together at RISD. He was on the board of Art Interactive, the nonprofit tech-arts org I ran for a period. He wrote me my first recommendation for grad school. He gave me and friends/colleagues innumerable opportunities to do strange things with art and technology that otherwise never would have happened in Boston. He created space and community for weird and wonderful things to happen and he left a legacy. RIP George. We will miss you.
I'm thrilled to announce that my new book manuscri I'm thrilled to announce that my new book manuscript "Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action" with @mitpress is open for community review on @pubpub - LINK IN BIO - I welcome your feedback and comments! Counting Feminicide comes from my work with @ladelentesuy & @silvana_fumega on #DataAgainstFeminicide. It documents the intellectual and emotional labor of data activists in the Americas & how their work challenges the hegemonic and extractivist logics of mainstream data science. A huge thanks to @proleptic bc this work draws extensively from data feminism. ---------------------- Estoy encantada de anunciar que el manuscrito de mi nuevo libro "Contar el feminicidio: feminismo de datos en acción" con @mitpress está abierto para revisión comunitaria en @pubpub - ENLACE EN BIO - Están bienvenidos sus comentarios! Contar el Feminicidio proviene de mi trabajo con @ladelentesuy y @silvana_fumega en #DatosContraFeminicidio. Documenta el trabajo intelectual y emocional de los activistas de datos en las Américas y cómo su trabajo desafía las lógicas hegemónicas y extractivistas de la ciencia de datos convencional. Muchas gracias a @proleptic pq este trabajo se basa en gran medida en nuestro libro - Feminismo de Datos. El borrador está abierto para la revisión de la comunidad y agradezco sus comentarios, opiniones y preguntas.
Join #datoscontrafeminicidio in Nov for panels & w Join #datoscontrafeminicidio in Nov for panels & workshops about art & feminicide data. We are proud to partner with @redinteramericanaantifemicidio @NoEstamosTodas & @burma.borda. Events feature artists, family advocates, curator @jimenaacosta.mx & writer @alice__driver. . . All events will be in Spanish. The two panels will have live interpretation for English and Portuguese. . . REGISTER: http://bit.ly/3DjCJDu or the link in bio because IG sucks and makes you put links in your bio.
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I was just informed that it is Baby Yoda’s birth I was just informed that it is Baby Yoda’s birthday today, hence the fabulous outfit. And - fun fact - Baby Yoda evidently has a birthday once a week.
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 I had the honor of meetin 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 I had the honor of meeting the brilliant @tressiemcphd yesterday after her talk for @mitlibraries along with friends @space.enabled and Dr Katlyn Turner. Still glowing and reflecting on all her thoughts on book bans, “wokeness”, “cancel culture”, strategic public underfunding, and the role that libraries have to play in democracy
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CALL FOR PANELISTS - Data De-Invisibilization: Vis CALL FOR PANELISTS - Data De-Invisibilization: Visualizing the Dark Matter of Networks. . . This is for a panel at 4S that I'm co-organizing with the amazing @kimfalbrecht Nicole Martin of @indigenouswomenrising & Matthew Battles of @ArnoldiaMag . . DEADLINE - Apr 14th LINK IN BIO (c'mon IG, ever gonna let us hyperlink?) . . Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol This panel invites projects at the intersection of data visualization and power. This might mean projects predicated on a politic of visibility, such as feminicide data activists using maps and graphics as “affect amplifiers” for gender violence (Suárez Val 2022), or work that challenges visual metaphors as hegemonic (Haraway 1989). Data visualization helps construct the neoliberal consensus through which data are conceived, operationalized, and consumed. Many of us inherit Enlightenment sensibilities that privilege vision and ignore relation. How do we acknowledge effacements, silences, and invisibilities across network and data imaginaries, and render data in terms of reunion, recuperation, and reconfiguration? Under such conditions, it’s crucial to acknowledge that “all data are local” (Loukissas 2019), that gender binaries contort data in ways that lead to injustice and invisibility (D’Ignazio and Klein 2020), and that Indigenous, queer, feminist and Black communities are developing counter-hegemonic uses of data grounded in care and relation (Carroll, Rodriguez-Lonebear, and Martinez 2019). Invited investigators are asked to contribute either 1) Empirically, for example, with a case study of counter-hegemonic visualizations; or 2) Speculatively and creatively, with projects that expand possibilities for addressing visualization and power. Projects in either category may engage technological metaphors in relation to living communities; make use of critical design practices to submit normative forms of knowledge to scrutiny; strive to render hidden systems and relations visible, while honoring the silences and invisibilities that structure networked social life.
Thank you @emgenia! I am so honored to receive a C Thank you @emgenia! I am so honored to receive a Cultural Emergency Response Kit. Here it is with some of the beautiful healing goodies inside. . . I'm still carrying forward the words that @emgenia spoke at our @mitdusp class last Spring: “How do we identify those ways of thinking and acting within our culture that create emergencies and cause harm? Some of them that I've identified are toxic individuality; thinking of ourselves as separate from the natural world and separate from others; hierarchical and binary thinking; authoritarianism; misogyny and toxic masculinity; short-term thinking; idealizing greed and consumerism; violence as a tool; coercion through brute force and fear of dispossession, which is at the heart of the power structures of our country; Western cultural supremacy and forced assimilation into this way of thinking. And going along with that is a historical amnesia which is harmful to us; cultural appropriation; the wastefulness and squandering of energy, resources and labor; and the undervaluing of youth, elders, and the extended family.” . . May we start responding to these interconnected emergencies together and with the kind of love and beauty and healing found in this kit. #culturalemergencyresponse
A great joy to be in Buenos Aires on International A great joy to be in Buenos Aires on International Women’s Day with huge admiration for what the feminist movement has achieved and is still fighting for here. Gran emoción! Gracias por la compañía y la inspiración en estos últimos días @mumalanacional @ecofeminita @presenteslgbt @ahoraquesinosvenok @datagenero @silvana_fumega @rusosnith #8M #8m2022
This November 24th, Data Against Feminicide invite This November 24th, Data Against Feminicide invites you to explore the role of technology in the production of feminicide data. In honor of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we will have a virtual meeting where you can learn about - and try out! - two tools which were co-designed by activists, academics, and technologists. These tools aim to support the labour of recording cases of feminicide. Panelists include representatives from @AApolicyforum, @blackfemicideamerica, @feminicidiouruguay, @sovereignbodies, @MDN_Rosario, @mumalanacional, @womencountusa In collaboration with @ildalatam @feminicidiouruguay and the Data + Feminism Lab REGISTRATION LINK IN BIO ******* En el marco del Día Internacional para la Eliminación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres, tendremos un encuentro virtual donde podrás conocer -y probar!- dos herramientas co-diseñadas por activistas, académicas, y tecnólogas para apoyar el trabajo de registro de casos de feminicidio. Invitamos a personas que están trabajando o están interesadas en trabajar con datos de feminicidio, desde el activismo y la sociedad civil, desde la academia, desde el periodismo o desde organismos del estado. Incluyendo representantes de @AApolicyforum, @blackfemicideamerica, @feminicidiouruguay, @sovereignbodies, @MDN_Rosario, @mumalanacional, @womencountusa En colaboración con @ildalatam @feminicidiouruguay y el Data + Feminism Lab ENLACE DE REGISTRO EN BIO ******** No Dia Internacional pela Erradicação da Violência contra a Mulher, teremos um encontro virtual onde você poderá conhecer - e experimentar! - duas ferramentas co-elaboradas por ativistas, acadêmicas e tecnólogas para apoiar o trabalho de registrar casos de feminicídio. Convidamos pessoas que estão trabalhando ou têm interesse em trabalhar com dados do feminicídio, do ativismo e da sociedade civil, da academia, do jornalismo ou de órgãos estaduais. incluindo representantes de @AApolicyforum, @blackfemicideamerica, @feminicidiouruguay, @sovereignbodies, @MDN_Rosario, @mumalanacional, @womencountusa Em colaboração com @ildalatam @feminicidiouruguay e o Data + Feminism Lab LINK DE REGISTRO NA BIO
Happy Indigenous People's Day! I'm proud to have Happy Indigenous People's Day! I'm proud to have worked on this story about Columbus monuments and commemorations together with journalists @washingtonpost and members of the Data + Feminism Lab including @wonyoung.so The story of Columbus commemoration is a story of persistent erasure and exclusion which has also been persistently challenged by Black and Indigenous people since at least the 1800s. While monuments are coming down, many remain and more than 6000 places in the U.S. bear his name, including our capital: District of Columbia. Check the homepage of the Washington Post to see the story and interactive maps.
Join me Wed Sep 29 at 1pm EST @MITdusp @MITLCAU fo Join me Wed Sep 29 at 1pm EST @MITdusp @MITLCAU for "Unsettling Settler Space" about the politics of place names with Natchee Barnd @themightyboozhoo #ogimaamikana Wil Patrick - WEBCAST link in bio.
Join us today @mitdusp at 3pm ET for a talk by the Join us today @mitdusp at 3pm ET for a talk by the creators of the Land Grab Universities investigative data journalism project. Registration link in bio because Instagram refuses to let us link to anything.
The Data Feminism Infographic by myself, @prolepti The Data Feminism Infographic by myself, @proleptic and @marcia_ilustra is being installed as part of the You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens festival which opens in Athens this week. It shows the Data Feminism principles in Greek and English. Work by friends like @ajlunited and @mushon also in the show! Cc: @irini_mirena @futureverything @onassis.stegi
I'm proud to announce the Data Against Feminicide I'm proud to announce the Data Against Feminicide project & website, undertaken with @silvana_fumega / @ildalatam and @ladelentesuy / @feminicidiouruguay . . . datoscontrafeminicidio.net . . . We are fostering a community of practice, developing tech & tools for civil society data collection about feminicide, & supporting data standardization, when appropriate. Our November 2020 events page has documentation of the many workshops and discussions that we held last year. More than 500 people came together around the idea of using data to challenge feminicide and gender-based violence. The work of the Data + Feminism Lab on co-designing automated tools for civil society groups to monitor feminicide is featured in the first week of events and you can watch it on Youtube. Check out the many other talks & workshops and stay tuned for this November’s events!
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