So excited to announce the launch of my project [unhurried] {witness}!
A curation of digital memories, this piece was created under my mentor, Marisa Parham, during the 2022-2023 Scholar-Artist Residency Program of the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland (UMD).
[unhurried] {witness} was conceived during lockdown to explore Black play as a form of healing and collective witness of Black American culture, and was envisioned as MySpace meets Tumblr meets your Grandma’s house; ASMR for the soul; community memory exercise; interfacing intimacy; an archive of play; and, ultimately, an ephemeral object of cultural witness.
✨slow play as ritual/alchemization of emotions + analog experiences in a digital space✨
More inspirations included:
-web 1.0
-Covid play
-inside/outside
-adulthood/childhood
-play/work
To experience and explore the project, click here: https://unhurried-witness.aadhum.org.
Designed to be interactive, a series of questions on your memories of the digital experience can be found here and here. All answers will be recorded anonymously and displayed in the guestbook here.
Statement from the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative at University of Maryland on the project:
Welcome [unhurried] {witness}!
Seren Sensei’s #BlackDH project creates a “a digital exploration and a visual representation of analog games such as card games, dice, dominoes, paper crafts, and rhyming hand games/hand motions, as healing cultural process among Black Americans.”
✨ You can learn more about [unhurried] {witness} at https://aadhum-news.umd.edu/unhurried-witness/
✨ You can visit the site at https://unhurried-witness.aadhum.org
