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designer-researcher ° working on access ° MELT as @unstablematters ° they/them ° ∞ °

Joined October 2015
Visit our exhibition 'Counting Feelings' at @kunst_uni_koeln until May 11th. Our Pop Up Disabled Data Center offers room to rest, stim, and dream towards lovingly engaging the knowledges of Trans* and disabled people as data... ✨.
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We had an amazing time sharing our work on the Imagining Backwards Computer at @control___shift's Feeling Machines weekender 💜⏰ in Bristol.
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Publication news 💬: Our entry "The Meltionary" is out in the "More Posthuman Glossary". The Meltionary is a growing experimental directory that investigates different materials, modes and metaphors of melting. DM us your email address for a copy of our text.
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After releasing the CFP a year ago (!), @gracenbrilz and I are very pleased to announce that the special issue of @first_monday, “This Feature Has Been Disabled: Critical Intersections of Disability and Information Studies,” is now out! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph…
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‘How then do we imagine? How do we stay with the grief of the current present and still continue to imagine and move toward less violent moments?’ @unstablematters Explore the meltionary → meltionary.com/ #SAB22 #LeavingTraces
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Every person's presence on the website unravels a paragraph from the meditation for everyone who is online at the same time. Shapeshifting blobs indicate presences in various colors. These colors simultaneously light up a lamp in the exhibition at W139.
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Our work PRESENCE-PAST PRESENCE-PRESENT PRESENCE-FUTURE connects online visitors and visitors at @SonicActs exhibition. Join via overexposed.sonicacts.com/ne… 💜. [The video shows the words "grounding without the certainty of meeting grounds" as they appear on the website.]
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Join us for the @SonicActs biennial opening tomorrow eve at W139 in Amsterdam ~ we are showing a meditation for Trans* and disabled futures 🔮. Link to the exhibition: sonicacts.com/biennial/bienn….
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I think everyone, including people who don't code, can benefit from using the command line. Here are 6 command line tools that can help you do simple tasks that are otherwise annoying to do:
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Some impressions from our Zeitgeber (time-giver) SUN TEA, performed at Training for the Future in Turino at @fondsrr ☀️ in late June ~ posted with wishes for a restful week.
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What does a barrier to access look like? It looks like being told "If you want to see change you need to donate your time to this uni/org/board/conference/committee" So you give your time to that group, and you do the work required, and you go a step beyond. 1/7
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First glimpse into our narrative thriller 🔥🌊🛢️PARADIGM SHELL 🛢️🌊🔥 set on an abandoned oil rig ... ⚠️ we are currently looking for a Publisher 📢 RTs super appreciated #pitchyagame
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June 2–3 (Workshop) & June 4–18 (Spatial Setting). MELT @unstablematters (Loren Britton @lorenslug & Isabel Paehr @isipaehr): Conspiring Timelines: Shimmering Temporalities theinstituteforendoticresear…
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Happy to share this new MELT newsletter. Please join to keep up-to-date with @lorenslug and my work - some exciting workshops are upcoming :).
To stay up to date with our work & events & exhibitions we'd be thrilled to add you to our informal newsletter (~ 1 email per month). Please DM with your email address to be added ✨💜.
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Honored to release together with @EylulIscen the first counter-n articles, counter-n.net/ > insurgent computing @Engelhardt_dcc, unstable computing @unstablematters, decolonial computing @stefaniewu, weird futuring @BaharNoorizadeh and counter futuring @juspar.
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Last day to sign up for Rest Assured, our reading group on non-normative ways of experiencing, theorising, materialising, subverting and being in time 🔄🔮: sonicacts.homerun.co/rest-as… hosted by @SonicActs.
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I built a new tool where you can experiment with DNS called Mess With DNS! It's at messwithdns.net. I made this with @omarieclaire, and there's a blog post about how we built it here: jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/15/mess…. Here's a gif:
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So thrilled about Rest Assured, our restful reading group with @SonicActs. Image Description in our reply 💜.
As part of our new #Practicum programme, artist duo MELT invite us to Rest Assured: a two-session online #reading group that focuses on restfulness + different approaches to time, such as trans*, crip, and kinship time. On 30 April & 14 May → sign up now! bit.ly/35UJ6ik
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