@literaturegeek.bsky.social
Just+joyful, critical+creative tech & culture ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 *Letterpress+zine+#DHmakes *ProLuddite & bookish code/data *Experimental/DH & library futures Dr! 🏳️⚧️ They/Them 🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition AmandaVisconti.com | WolfproofPress.com 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
Now I need to read about what a Multipress is (love the showcard press complete with used prescription bottle)
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If you have job prof dev $, point to pedagogy, critical making, remembering being a 1st-time learner as why classes apply. Do check their sites re:financial aid too—I think many list prices for those who can pay, but various kinds of low-application-effort scholarships, work-study noted elsewhere.
In addition to local arts, free online resources, & your library—search "folk school" & "craft school" for a ton of places that often mix teaching craft/make/art traditions w/new+experimental ways of using them. E.g. just in NC: John C Campbell Folk School, @penlandschool.bsky.social, Wild Abundance
I love this plan. What knowledge from the past do you have in your head to carry forward and teach?
Now I'm tempted to go sign up for some of the more obscure lace making classes at the local lace museum, just out of AI spite. 🤔 #DHmakes
. @kathrynhunterart.bsky.social is teaching interactive & spinning letterpress prints at Penland this summer: penland.org/workshop/spi... & her press is @blackbirdletterpress.com
More of @kathrynhunterart.bsky.social's work—"meditations on the damage of white supremacy, misinformation, and climate change"; book lungs! Supreme Court planetary glow-in-the-dark impacts, Confederate statue removals; giant layered lino "bear"ing witness www.kathrynhunterfineart.com/portfolio-1
I was lucky to get to see some of @kathrynhunterart.bsky.social's process at Penland this January. Beautiful mixed-media art & advocacy, including embroidery, lino carving, letterpress legends explaining science/history in paired pieces so you can explore visually 1st then read deeper #DHmakes +
Had a fun afternoon working in my cubicle after enduring a three-hour bomb threat today
Your mixing lasercut pieces with weaving is so cool
I will! Thank you :)
4th UVA lockdown in the past year, 2nd threat on our library building; folks are evacuated. Trivially but representing state of academia: this=2nd time my *same* pending-publication article needs an edit, bc it refers to # of lockdowns on our campus in the past year (& that number rose since wrote).
I think we only get out of this by shifting policy & practice to transformative justice. It's just that "rehab/atone—" (that last a — unending in length necessarily) overfocuses on white folks who're being evil, rather than the people being harmed. I want to say the "stop" & "never again" loud rn.
The "rehabilitate/atone—" ones aren't especially my jam right now—I made them at the start of Jan, and have been printing ICE OUT over many of them for now—but a goal is helping more folks publicly display *anything* to start, so various options for comfort levels to help build that mental muscle. +
I'll also have free letterpress abolish ICE/ICE Out posters @ my table next Sat anyone can take (take a pile to share w/others, too?) until they run out
(Going to do a new run of free prints easier to mail folks, as soon as I have a chance—these are on big stiff paper, so lovely but hard to mail.)
Cville folks, I'm selling bookish+ letterpress prints *next* Sat 3/21 12-6 @ Virginia Festival of the Book on the DTMall. Come by, or let me know if you want to pick up anything that's on wolfproofpress.com so I make sure to bring it? (There will be other book arts & indie author folks vending too!)
Digital humanities grad students & faculty always want to offload the data cleaning drudgery on some undergrad research assistant, until they eventually come to realize that's the part of the process where the stack of qualitative assumptions comes from.
Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat
This is what's killing me about all the furor about AI and the NEH. Yes, it's galling, but seems it didn't shape what happened in the end. People are more upset about how they did the middle step than the fact they destroyed projects, scholarship, and tools & any recovery is too little too late.
Respectfully, eat shit. Those kids were expelled, arrested, and targeted relentlessly by their school administrations with the specific goal of preventing further protest. Eighteen year old kids were held down and maced by campus security, hit point blank with tear gas canisters by riot cops.
Awesome! Me, too. I've got a spreadsheet of more zines I'm almost done describing, am hoping to add soon
Yes indeed! 🤩
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In the famous words of @transbookhistory.bsky.social, 👀:
Hi friends! I post
🌈tech/culture/justice intersections
💾book-adjacent code+data (human+labor 1st)
🎨making+craft (letterpress/zine/laser/retro tech)
🎓🦮DH research center directing (ScholarsLab.org)
ZineBakery.com distro/catalog/research; EnthusiasticType.com digi #BookHist; WolfproofPress.com prints
Time for an updated bio post! ↗️
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My essay, "An Unexpected Influence: Photostats in Special Collections Libraries" is about what happens when libraries adopt new technologies that promise to democratize access to knowledge and revolutionize library work.
It was published in PBSA. You can read it here!
halperta.com/scholarship/...
!! Congrats, Hannah! 🎉
Join us in at the Amistad Center in New Orleans this year for Round #3 of Who Owns Black Data, and to celebrate the Amistad's 60th anniversary. This year we'll be focusing on the future of the material past, and how that past can speak to Black futures.