Anna Pendergrast

Loose topic: Finding aids. In a partly de-physicalized cultural landscape (where even the architecture of the web doesn’t feel much like an architecture any more) are there still ways to follow your nose, or happen across something excellent? How are we finding books, ideas, objects these days?

A screenshot of a zoom call where all 6 attendees have homemade backgrounds. The people are blanked out in bright green so just their outlines are visible.

Come and hang out with me & @kellypendergrast.bsky.social
in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.

Wed 24 Sep, 10:30am NZT / Tues 23 Sep, 3:30pm Pacific

More info and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhc...

I'm calling into this AGM from Canada and really hoping I can get to bed before 2am...

Officially on holiday as of 20mins ago, although I’m yet to find the off button to stop me from thinking about work stuff when I’m off the clock.

@kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are excited to be part of the research team for this project. We helped write this backgrounder about internet infrastructure and climate resilience in the context of Aotearoa.

To find out more, and learn to get involved, head to internetresilience.nz

Apparently he's on to the detective novels now...

🎁 🔁 The unexpected gift economies thriving online Seeking digital inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

Grounded in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s latest book, The Serviceverry, writers @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and @annapendergrast.bsky.social look at the power of reciprocity and gift-giving in various digital spaces.

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I agree on all those things! But fear that might be a request or 3 too far based on the reports I read today!

You may definitely ask! But I fear you may not receive in most cases!!!

Writing a report? Please, I am begging you, PUT A DATE ON IT! Not just on the website page you can download it from, or in the title, but somewhere obvious in the actual report itself.

Thanks so much Rachel! So glad to hear you're working on writing more about "just enough" in this context - looking forward to reading it when it's out in the world!

It was a fun one to write, and we look at tools that support reciprocity at a community level, ways people are protecting and contributing to the knowledge commons, and what it might look like to build digital technologies within natural limits.

🎁 🔁 The unexpected gift economies thriving online Seeking digital inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

The latest @newpublic.org newsletter is written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. In it, we explore how concepts in Robin Wall Kimmerer's 2024 book The Serviceberry might manifest in digital projects and online spaces.

newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

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Come and hang out with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.

9.30am May 20 (NZT) // 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific)

More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...

I learned from @kellypendergrast.bsky.social + @annapendergrast.bsky.social about this Decomputing class at Dark Times Academy — refusal, Ludditism, analog alternatives, etc. I really need this, so I signed up.

YouTube video by Flightless Bird Mysterious Sound

The newsletter also talks about probably the best podcast episode I've heard this year so far, @davidfarrier.bsky.social's Flightless Bird episode "Mysterious Sound" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ze...

Moving House. A moment of personal intersection with global shipping infrastructures.

New Scope of Work newsletter written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social is out today. It's about moving house – from packing your life into boxes to physically moving a home from one place to another. We also snuck in a bit about Shihad, because why not. www.scopeofwork.net/moving-house...

My pals at @darktimesacademy.bsky.social have announced their latest classes and they look fab (ft. some awesome guest speakers)!

[From Dunedin: Founding a New World City by Ian Dougherty].

For the second time in a week I've realised stories I love (and have never previously interrogated) about Dunedin and its streets/buildings are in fact folklore... “Dunedin has steep streets, not because of some attempt to impose another town’s plans but, because Dunedin has steep hills”.

Good idea, thanks!

Oh cool, thank you for looking into this! Not sure how deep I want to dive into this question, but it's tempting to see what I can find!

Was always Hawai'i in the story I heard! Tell me more about this Brazilian lead...

Getting Around the Orthodoxy There is a possibility that I wrote this entire feature in order to begin with the fact that I was in New York over the summer break. With that in mind, I was in New York over the summer break. One ni...

Same! Only thing I can find online is a passing comment in a Critic article "Speculation abounds that the building was originally designed without a roof for somewhere either in Fiji or Hawaii. When the project fell through, the University bought the plans instead.." www.critic.co.nz/features/art...

I'm trying to find info about the history of the Otago Uni Commerce building, can you help? In particular, is the story I learned as a student in the 00's that its leaking issues were due to it being designed for the Hawai'i climate true or an urban legend...

We still have a couple of spaces for our Antistatic Group meeting this week - details and how to sign up below:

A bit more context for our Meeting Room project is in our Feb Antistatic newsletter: mailchi.mp/af0550352489...

Screenshot from a Zoom call with Kelly and Anna. Kelly, left, has shoulder length brown hair, and wears a nordic-inspired polar fleece. Behind her is a colorful cut-paper zoom background. Anna, right, has bleach blond short hair, circular plastic glasses, and wears a black sweater. Behind her is a watercolor painted zoom background.

Come shoot the shit with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week?? It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. The Feb call was sooo fun.

10am March 19 (NZ time) // 2pm March 18 (Pacific)

Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A real blind spot in my musical knowledge! I learned this from the same video you shared, so much good trivia in there.

I second Duct Tape workshop, I've got my last couple of phones there. I currently have an iPhone SE 3 which is great (camera isn't as flash as later models but totally fine).