Workshops

praxis.

doing.

being.

2350: Digital DJ’ing.

In this 2-hour workshop, I invite participants to imagine and produce the sounds of the future. Engaging with technology, race, and modes of futurism we will meditate on the entanglement of topics of climate change, social justice, and sonic projections of the near and far future. I have developed this interactive workshop at Google in New York and at Cornell University where participants were able to experiment with non-conventional instruments and digital technology.

Digital Heirlooms: Family Albums and Metadata.

The photos placed in family albums say a lot about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. In this 3-hour workshop, I invite participants to bring a family photograph to discuss the silent narratives inscribed in the family album. We will discuss family frames and especially the photographs that are not placed on walls or in albums. I am most interested in thinking about the forgotten photographs that are scattered in basements and attics. Participants will consider ethical questions of artificial intelligence, metadata, and photographic surveillance. Engaging with practices of contemporary visual artists of photographic collage we will discuss what is gained in reassembling the wounded intimacies of family album. I have developed this interactive workshop at Alice Yard as a part of #AYExchange in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad with collaborator Felicia Chang (Plantain).

Vibrant Things: Object Genealogies, and Data Visualization.

Objects vibrate and speak with multiple stories to narrate about the entangled strands of global histories. Drawing from the methodology of “object lessons,” in this 2-hour workshop participants will explore a number of digital platforms and methods for storytelling. Together we will examine the linear and non-linear methodologies of narrating history and visualizing data sets when we put objects at the center. Through tracing something as simple as a domino tile we can begin to piece together how imperial trade routes, global leisure practices, and gaming intersect.