Beyond— beyond!— honored to see .break .dance included in Vision Unbound, an online exhibition of contemporary e-lit by women curated by @drigar for @ELitLab at The NEXT! The exhibit includes groundbreaking work by Amira Hanafi, Melody Peijing & Priti Pandurangan. Check it out!

It's really about leaving on a high note, and with this I bid adieu y'all.

Today, on the first anniversary of my mother’s death, I will remember her by knocking on doors in PA to get out the vote—and when Kamala wins—by organizing for peace and justice. Let’s go VOTE.

We are thrilled that @BarnardCollege professor Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion" is the inspiration for the 2025 @metmuseum Costume Institute exhibition. #MetGala https://t.co/B0R43ihTBu

Thrilled to have brought Recovering the #RevuedesColonies into dialogue with #K4BL at the TEl for Black DH roundtable at #TEI2024. Feeling energized by compelling presentations, inspiring discussion and the important work ahead 📰 @egpalazzolo @jmjafrx @raffazizzi @NoelleRomney

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Hosting one of our honest faves? Yes please more please. Amanda Phillips @UMD_MITH, talking to us about game studies in and outside the academy— and all the things™ 👾👾👾

New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action

I’m so honored to be among the remarkable 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellows and grateful for the spotlight I hope this award will shine on Black women’s visions & struggles for reproductive & family justice. #MacFellow 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Week 4 of Women's History Month & we're honoring Marisa Parham. Her ".break .dance" is a mash up of images, video, animation, & text inhabiting “spaces of possibility” around, across, and beyond the screen. We are so pleased to feature it in Vision Unbound https://t.co/kBMMpnfReM

All the excitements ✨

@jeffreymoro That's it for our final digital dialogue of AY 23-24! Join us in F24 for a new slate of amazing speakers. If you're local to UMD & would like to nominate future Digital Dialogue speakers, fill out out our @UMD_MITH & @umd_AADHum nomination form:

@jeffreymoro So much of this, like all things, comes down to frequency— in every sense. +

@jeffreymoro Moro takes us thru thinking @ histories of signal & noise. Noise as excluded fr human need. My ? turns to how even as humans cannot sense sferics, we know that so many animals navigate by magnetics. So the story of signal & noise as a story @ not knowing what or how to know... +

in discussing the emplacement of field recordings, @jeffreymoro introduces a series of sounds known in sferics as the 'dawn chorus'— the sound of the sun hitting one's earthly locality at dawn. Amazingly, it indeed sounds like birds, who of course sing their own dawn choruses. +

Moro highlights how actual randomness is impossible for humans. Truly random #'s (and algorithms that produce them) are referenced to natural phenomena, for instance using atmospheric noise to generate entropy, important for instance for cryptocurrency! +

At @umd_AADHum Moro's research offers pathways into seeing how one might use narrative and art to intervene in science. In so doing, his work gives method to AADHum's interests in mining hidden stories embedded in our digital technologies. Follow along ⇢

Moro's work explores how atmospheric patterns become legible as data, both quantitatively and qualitatively, science, art, experience. "Sferics surround us at all time," but are shielded from us as our devices remove the presence of atmosphere— nature— from our electronics +

I can't say enough about how excited I am to hear this talk— and to emerge ready to drop the word 'sferics' in regular conversation! But really, how often do you get to listen to the atmosphere and its objects, its electricity, its lightning... +

Say it again and again. Understand a mandate for research and community partnership ⇢ Leila Blackbird: "Nothing about us without us" 🔥

So many different kinds of technical knowledge at play, reading both French & Spanish, the rigor of paleography. Shout out to the project's work w/ @UMD_MITH's @raffazizzi, grateful for his work at the intersection of minimal computing + @TEIconsortium protocols and strategies.