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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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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
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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
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TONIGHT our hackathon teams from around the countr TONIGHT our hackathon teams from around the country will be presenting their work at the Feminist Future(s) Project Fair! Registration link in bio! With organization mentors, teams designed interventions for prison abolition (with @sistersunchained), environmental justice (with @puebloactionalliance), reproductive justice (with @_therenee, @periodequity), and the care economy (with the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) Labs). Join us tonight to celebrate and close this month of feminist community innovation! For more information about the FF hackathon, our art exhibition and public event series, please visit ourfeministfutures.com.
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For the Feminist Future(s) Hackathon our theme for For the Feminist Future(s) Hackathon our theme for the week is care. Join us and @mmjz for a conversation on the care economy, documentary filmmaking, and resistance. LIVESTREAM 7PM TONIGHT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knjyTYohmes
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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.
I’m very excited to speak at CNM this week - tha I’m very excited to speak at CNM this week - thank you @maryaerrin for the invitation!
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)
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