Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@ScholarsLab Director: just+joyful critical tech+culture 🏳️🌈✨💻
*SJ+experimental/DH+library futures, communities
*DIY scholcom=zine/blog/code
*Bookadjacent data+making
Enthusiast (3 !s in a hoodie); abolitionist
Dr.! (exTTprof) 🏳️⚧️They/Them
AmandaVisconti.com
- Curious but don't think of yourself as an artist/crafter/maker? Or, unfamiliar w/data work? Please do consider applying: can be a chance to learn+extend what you do, doesn't need to be a huge project nor professionally polished. "Data"—especially re:culture, memory, SJ—can be so many things: +
- Want to explore cultural data w/your art, craft, or making work? Or—itching to try broadening your digital humanities/cultural data work via physical art/craft/making methods? We're funding summer remote work on a display for our public community-lab space. Open to all, short proposal due=1.5 weeks:
- Added backup+amplification copies (w/author permission) of the 14 DARK disability history+media zines to the Zine Bakery "redistro" page:
- Disability Action Research Kollective (linktr.ee/disabilityark) offers great free edu #zines teaching about disabled feminists, leaders, radicals; disability in Ancient Egypt, wheelchair history; analysis of disability +horror films, Star Trek, film analysis tools. +Good examples of research=>zine!
- I was interviewed for this UVA student politics magazine piece on #zines for grassroots organizing & knowledge-sharing, by Amelia Lucien: "The Zine Revolution in the Age of the Internet": virginiapolitics.org/interviews/2...
