#digital artifact

[whereyousleepatnight]

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[yearoftheglitch]

PIC Series Lenticular

NFT listed on Foundation.app - reserve price 0.1 ETH

Animated simulation of a lenticular print of selected images from the PIC Series, a collection of images created by short circuiting vintage low resolution Olympus digital cameras. Created in Blender.

https://foundation.app/phillipstearns/pic-series-lenticular-27423

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[tvworm]

Binge-Watching Yae or Nae part II

Binge-Watching Yae or Nae part II

Project Information: To understand this project read Binge-Watching Yae or Nae.

For this project I decided to use my YouTube channel, TvWorm Sepiso, as my digital platform to find answers on Binge-Watching. The main focus of my research was why would people binge-watch a TV show. Additionally if they would watch it more than once, why would they do it.

Twitter poll on why people binge-watch a…

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[technicallycraftypost]

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Jef Raskin, one of the designers of the Macintosh graphical user interface (GUI)

[tvworm]

Is it a Horse, Is it a Human, no its a Humanoid

Is it a Horse, Is it a Human, no its a Humanoid

I’ve finally uploaded my first video you can check it out Here. It was harder than I thought, when you ideate you are just brainstorming ideas until you start prototyping and see how your model/DA is going to turn out. Everything was new to me, recording myself, editing the video, creating a whole new channel just for my idea, I was thinking after all these years you are finally creating a…

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[tvworm]

the new Digital Artifact

the new Digital Artifact

From the moment you hear, you’re doing BCM114 (Bachelor of Communication and Media 114) you think MEMESSSS.

I’m doing this course and I was told memes is all you get to create, ( I know what you’re thinking, what a class, the simplicity of it all, I wanna do it now!!). Other than that we are told to create a Digital Artifact, something we love to talk about, or do and just put it on the…

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[a-feminist-cactus-blog]

True Inclusivity in Modern Feminism

It frustrates me to no end that many people’s only knowledge of feminism is Emma Watson in a “this is what a feminist looks like” T-shirt, or maybe a Victoria’s Secret “love your body” campaign. In fact, this is often a positive view of feminism compared to what else is out there -- just yesterday I heard a teenage boy complaining about “feminazis,” and my own father has told me that feminism “just teaches girls to hate men.” But even if some people hold that “better” view of feminism, are we really achieving a whole lot? Or are we staying still?

Too many feminist writings, campaigns, and projects exclude all types of women from their narratives. They often focus mainly on white, middle- to upper-class, cisgender, able-bodied women; if we’re lucky, they’ll consider a lesbian perspective or perhaps a black woman’s. Even then, several “types” of women (though this is a poor way to describe them, as women aren’t meant to be categorized and many people’s histories and identities overlap) are left out of plans that are meant to defend or support them.

As a result, I decided to make a word cloud that addresses the different identities of women who need to be protected by modern feminism. It’s 2017 -- we shouldn’t be leaving disabled women, Native women, mentally ill women, sex workers, Muslim women, and so on out of our collective efforts. These women are too frequently ignored or forgotten by modern feminists, even those who claim to advocate for all women. I think a word cloud like this one helps feminists remember whom they’re attempting to support and defend through their activism.

But that isn’t enough. Not only should feminists themselves understand that true activism is inclusive, but so should people who don’t consider themselves feminists. It’s easy for online activists to get caught in their Internet “bubbles,” where they begin to believe that everyone is as educated on social issues as they are, just because who they talk to or see online are educated on the topic. (One of our readings, “Developing a Corporeal Cyberfeminism: Beyond Cyberutopia,” describes this phenomenon quite well.) But when we step outside of that bubble, we realize that the world is a little more harsh than we originally thought, and not everyone is educated on things like inclusive feminism. Because of this, I think visual media like my word cloud are important. They remind everyone, not just activists themselves, that feminism should be inclusive. 

I imagine this word cloud hung up on bulletin boards in college classrooms, pasted to telephone poles, and even printed on T-shirts. Anything that describes the hopeful inclusivity of modern feminism should be viewable by the public. This way, people who truly seem to think that feminism only addresses white, cisgender, well-off women (or that it should) can see otherwise. In addition, women who fit into the categories in the world cloud (like impoverished, black, bisexual, transgender, and others) see the word cloud and have a bit of hope that feminism has their back. 

Brophy, J. (2013). Developing a Corporeal Cyberfeminism: Beyond Cyberutopia. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books.