Jessica Barness

Fellowing Parallel work becomes unexpected community

"We’re all out here trying to make something, fix something, figure it out, and sometimes the best support we can offer each other is simply showing up to do our work in the presence of others doing theirs."
#designwriting #writingfellowship

Though my work, Letters to X, has been on the ELO site for some time, today I was happy to see a new entry for the project in the Electronic Literature Directory (thank you, Elayna!)

“We're just doing our job, trying to be the best library that we can be, trying to help preserve the cultural heritage of our time — to make this material accessible, useful to people now and into the future.” Mark Graham, Internet Archive Director of the Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a vital resource for preserving the cultural record, ensuring history remains accessible to all.

Read more in the recent NPR profile ➡️ www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

#SaveTheWeb #DigitalPreservation #MemoryHole #WaybackMachine

When Pluto was a planet...

‘Time, motion, symbol, line’ by Jonathan Burrows in #Eye37.
Choreographers have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record their work. Technology provides new means, but scoring a dancing body in four dimensions remains elusive, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
#Eyearchive

“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases Some affected discs aren’t manufactured anymore and can’t be replaced.

🕳️ #VanishingCulture arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Futures Sorts of Things A podcast episode and a book cover walk into a bar...

A podcast episode and a book cover walk into a bar — or, writing design vignettes that have an unexpected future... New post at The Quiet Design Scholar ✨
#designwriting #scifi #exhibitions

📚 👉 Thinking Through Graphic Design History is officially available for purchase, congratulations to Aggie Toppins! 🎉 The Historiography section includes my work on visualizing and analyzing design conversations.
#designhistory #designresearch

"Telling students that they must get along with the 'assistance' of AI or can’t be writers or designers or illustrators is a usurpation of the freedom of the individual to go through the pain of their own time and craft and art, and fight it through, and reap the reward of individual accomplishment"

Workshop on Writing an Academic Abstract An Affiliated Society Meeting at the CAA 113th Annual Conference

Need help writing abstracts for your design research project? Join us for a workshop this Friday Feb 14 — FREE! — as part of CAA 2025.

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How I Sustain Momentum on Writing Projects - Academic Book Central Writing an academic book typically takes years. Complicating matters, you often have to work on other projects (like journal articles) while working on the book. Sustaining momentum on any writing pro...

Excellent advice from @katelynknox.bsky.social — good reminders in this list, and some ideas that are new to me too

dissertationtobook.com/sustain-mome...

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals

Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.

By Ashley Belanger

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

#DataProtection #internet

Today I've been down the early 2000s research rabbit hole of design forums — here are a few screenshots from the AIGA Design Forum, circa 2002 💬 #aiga #designresearch #graphicdesign

Constructing the Emigre Magazine Index (Part 3) Tools are not neutral. And, cake tastes better with frosting.

Tools are not neutral and cake tastes better with frosting! Part 3 of my short essays series about my Emigre Magazine Index project.

jessicabarness.substack.com/p/constructi...

Nosferatu (2024) with Jessica Barness — DESIGNERS ON FILM Jessica Barness, design scholar and scholarly designer, recently began exploring a new design sci-fi writing project that deals with blacklisted visual tools and biopreferences. When Jessica was last ...

New Designers on Film episode, this time we discuss Nosferatu (2024)! I was honored to be a returning guest on the podcast...

#nosferatu #podcast #design

Glimpse of my fictionalized book cover for a project with Matriarchal Design Futures #graphicdesign #designfutures

Until the End of the World (1991) with Jessica Barness — DESIGNERS ON FILM Director Wim Wenders has inspired the likes of Beyonce and Kevin Smith, among others, and while he’s known for Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas , his lesser-known epic Until the End of the Wo...

Recently, I was a guest on the Designers on Film podcast and we discussed the film "Until the End of the World" (1991) directed by Wim Wenders. Link to listen below... #film #designersonfilm

A hand holding a book titled "Glitchy Vision: A Feminist History of the Social Photo" by Amanda K. Greene against a light background.

"Glitchy Vision is an instructive analysis of the ways social photography can be necessarily broken and remade via a radical feminist lens." —Legacy Russell https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550826/glitchy-vision/

Evergreen #AcWriMoments Plus, a delicious new resource is heading your way!

Inspiration for writers -- academic and beyond... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Determining the Emigre Magazine Index (Part 2) People, hierarchies, contributions, and a designer-authored magazine

hello, Bluesky! Rather than contemplating the perfect first post (ha!) let's begin with some recent writing...
#graphicdesign #designwriting #Emigremagazine #designhistory