Nettrice
@nettieb
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Bringing together people, concepts, modalities, media, and worlds through art.
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Joined June 2008
Yesterday was National Author's Day and I didn't post up, so here it go!
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The growing maker movement in education has become an integral part of both STEM and STEAM learning, tapping into the natural DIY inclinations of creative pe...
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Everything must change.Nothing stays the same.Everyone will change.No one stays the same. The young become the old.And mysteries do unfold.'Cause that's the way of time.Nothing and no one goes unchanged.
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RT @ChuckSherwood1: The Ethics of the Remix: GenAI in Public Space by @nettieb
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When I started to think about AI as a tool that we could use to look at the past and not to the future, it became such an approachable and…
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Happy Monday! Tomorrow I will be talking about the Kongo cosmogram, music, visual art, and dance at Harvard. :)
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Detroit-based electronic music duo Drexciya created their own Black Atlantis origin myth about an underwater country populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women thrown from slave ships.
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Happy Birthday to fellow Libran Amiri Baraka. His "Technology & Ethos" essay was prominent in my PhD thesis.
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Specular reflection or "shine" can enhance darker skinned faces and I've applied this technique (neural style transfer) to portraits of people whose work impacted me in some way. I grew up watching Good Times. John Amos was one of the greats and I'll never forget him.
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"The virtual mirror/window creates openings for new representations of Mami Wata in the contemporary world." --Nettrice Gaskins, "Mami Wata Remixed: The Mermaid in Contemporary African-American Culture"
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"Every man has a place.In his heart there's a space.And the world can't erase his fantasies.Take a ride in the sky.On our ship, fantasize.All your dreams will come true right away. " -- Earth, Wind & Fire
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