Anne Lee Steele

DWeb Camp 2019 group photo. Photo by Mitch Maher.

Person with megaphone outside of big igloo tent at night at DWeb Camp 2019. Photo by Mitch Maher.

Person dancing at DWeb Camp 2019. Photo by Mitch Maher.

People sitting around a bonfire at DWeb Camp 2019. Photo by Mitch Maher.

🏕️ DWeb Camp 2026 is happening in the Berlin area on Jul 8–12 ✨

Are you curious, excited, want to participate?

Fill out this survey!

We would love to shape the first-ever DWeb Camp in Europe together!
Detailed location and further info soon 👀

09.01.2026 16:45 — 👍 40    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

this is so fascinating, eileen!

05.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

look mum I’m in a documentary about the next big thing in software www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...

(thx @cultrepo.bsky.social and @localfirstconf.com !)

30.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 58    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1

Note: I'm surprised to find that we're already almost at full capacity on Luma! If there's enough interest via the waitlist, I may organise another date on Saturday the 7th! 🤗

29.01.2026 16:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📣🍻☕We will be having an **Open Research social event** this Saturday ahead of the session on Sunday. All speakers and attendees are welcome to join!

📍Le tavernier (10min walk from FOSDEM)
maps.app.goo.gl/QPoe645NW129...
🗓️ Sat 31st 19:00

29.01.2026 15:51 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2

internet infrastructure of London walking tour: sunday, 8 march 2026, 10:30am - 12:30pm

As a part of #OpenDataDay organized by @okfn.bsky.social, I'll be running another internet infrastructure tour... this time, with an open data twist!

​🗓️ Sunday, 8 March
​⏰ 10:30 - 12:30
​📍London, United Kingdom

I have capacity for 25 or so folks, please sign up using luma: luma.com/zy0hjdkx

28.01.2026 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

📣 A Note on Recent GitHub Access Changes

Recently, some of our contributors received an automated GitHub message stating they had been “removed as a collaborator.” This wording felt abrupt and can be misleading for our previous collaborators and contributors, so we want to clarify:

04.12.2025 09:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

An Interview with Anne Lee Steele, STUDIO SANSHIN [Systems Leadership Series #4] — Educopia Anne Lee Steele talks about the evolving open ecosystem, the human side of systems leadership, and what it takes to sustain collaborative digital communities today.

Relearning how to post across platforms --

This interview (release in December) was an opportunity to share lessons I've learned after 3 years of stewarding the @turingway.bsky.social community. Thank you to the Educopia team for enabling me to reflect out loud!

educopia.org/blog/an-inte...

14.01.2026 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gitcoin Grants Stack Grants power growth in Web3. Make your voice heard and support open-source software and public goods across the EVM ecosystem

We’re back for #Gitcoin Grants Round 23!

Building a decentralized tool to preserve vulnerable web content.

Support @dwebpress.bsky.social and help grow censorship-resistant infrastructure:

explorer.gitcoin.co#/round/42161...

07.04.2025 13:40 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

Poster with the call for participation info of the post, asking for 15 or 25 minutes presentation

Reminder that you have ONE WEEK to submit your talk proposals to our Open Research devroom for @fosdem #FOSDEM2026 on all things research

⏳Deadline: 1st of December
🌐 research-fosdem.github.io
🗓️ Sunday 1st February
📍 Brussels, Belgium

24.11.2025 11:27 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Archived recording of ANTIUNIVERSITY 2025 ~ Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology, and Technology chaired by Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social

youtu.be/fylp8RsdelY?...

11.11.2025 08:49 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Photo of Chantelle Lue-Elton of the School of Commons: Chantelle Lue is a researcher and facilitator from Southern Africa, currently based in London. Her work focuses on the development and circulation of archival projects, self-organized practices, and the dynamics of the internet age. Through her expanded practice, she explores themes of marginality, liminality, otherness, and kinship, with a strong emphasis on commoning as praxis. Since 2023, Chantelle has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), where she shapes communications and the Public Program, and supports the Alumn* Network.

Photo of Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson and biography: Dr. Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson is an American-British artist and curator, and and the Director of the alternative, experimental art situation LungA School in Seyisfjörour, Iceland. Prior to this, they were the Curator at IMT Gallery, London, from 2005-2023 and Assistant Professor in Fine Art Critical Theory and Curatorial Practices at Northumbria University. They have been part of a number of collaborative artistic practices including NEUSCHLOSS, Blue Mountain Arcturus and Plastique Fantastique, and their book on curating was published by Routledge in 2023.

Photo of Anne Lee Steele (facilitator) and biography: Anne Lee Steele is a researcher, facilitator, and artist based in London. Her work in public interest technology and research has been supported by organisations like the Alan Turing Institute, Internet Society, Wikimedia Deutschland, and Open Knowledge Foundation among others. Her multimedia art practice has been exhibited in venues such as International Body of Art, Mozilla Festival and AlxDesign. Most recently, she founded STUDIO SANSHIN to house her creative practice, which explores the intersection of heritage, technology and ecology. She has been a student of artist-run school for years.

- Chantelle Lue-Elton (@schoolofcommons.bsky.social)
- @markrohtmaajackson.bsky.social (@lungaschool.bsky.social)

We just had our check-in call, and I'm so excited for this conversation. During what feels like a broader crisis of imagination, there is so much for learn from these folks.

08.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photo and biography of Benjamin Gaulon of No School Nevers: Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher, educator and cultural producer based in Paris. He has previously released work under the name "recyclism". His research focuses on the limits and failures of information and communication technologies; planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society; ownership and privacy; through the exploration of détournement, hacking and recycling. His projects can be softwares, installations, pieces of hardware, web based projects, interactive works, street art interventions and are, when applicable, open source. Together with Dasha Ilina, he is a founding member of the collective NO, a non-profit organisation whose mission is to support and promote emerging art and design research and practices that address the social and environmental impact of information and communication technologies in France and beyond, since its creation in 2018. They are both co-directors of NO SCHOOL NEVERS since its first edition in 2019.

Photo Rachel Uwa of the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe: Biography: Rachel Uwa is founder and director of the educational nonprofit School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe (Make-Believe Foundation gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)), which creates one-of-a-kind hands-on learning experiences in the areas of art, technology, design, and human connection. She designs and curates the majority of programming for School of Machines. Rachel is also an artist, educator, and organizer with over 20 years experience consulting and organizing for social justice and tech communities and events big and small. She helps non-profits, educational institutions, companies and individuals looking to strengthen the work they do and build new initiatives. She is currently co-developing two new projects, School of Humans and Make-Believe Studio Berlin.

Photo of Peter Schmidt from the Strother School of Radical Attention. Biography: Peter Schmidt is a writer, organizer, and facilitator from Missouri. He is a member of the Friends of Attention coalition, and leads workshops, seminars, and study groups at the Strother School of Radical Attention, where he is co-founder and Program Director. He is a co-editor of ATTENSITY! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, forthcoming from Crown (US) and Penguin (UK) in January 2026.

These leaders of schools will discuss their relationships to legacy institutions, tactics for sustaining alternative education, visions for the future, and more.

- Benjamin Gaulon (NØ SCHOOL NEVERS)
- Rachel Uwa (@schoolofma.bsky.social)
- Peter Schmidt (@schoolofattention.bsky.social)

08.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Cyanotype image with the title "Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology and Technology" with subtitle "16 October. 9 EST / 14 BST / 15 CEST" with a luma link below. Five logos from five schools are below the poster for the School of Radical Attention, School of Machines, No School Nevers, School of Commons, and LungA School.

As a part of this year's #AntiuniversityFestival, I'm so excited to be organising the online panel: "Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology and Technology".

📅 Thursday, 16 October
⏰ 9:00 EST / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST

Sign up on luma to get the zoom link: luma.com/3rpoc79c

08.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1