Returning to Dream Lab this summer ⚡️ BLACK SPECULATIVE DIGITAL ARTS & HUMANITIES, co-taught by Dr. Michael Sterling Burns and Dr. Clayton Colmon 🔮

Play These 24 Indie Video Games From Developers of Color Now Indie games bring innovation and artistry to the video game industry, and people of color bring diversity and perspective to indie games. These PoC-developed indie titles should be on your radar.

Freshly updated for Black History Month is our list of new indie games to play made by developers of color. RELOOTED! DROPSHOT! SANTACORPS! www.pcmag.com/picks/indie-...

Distinguished University Professor of English @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social has emerged as a leading voice on AI. Read our Q&A to learn more about how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern: english.umd.edu/news/how-matthew-kirschenbaum-sees-ais-impact

New CFP from JITP on Minimalist Digital Pedagogy. Due June 15th. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Schedule | Who Owns Black Data? A conference series on stewarding the historical and cultural record of Black life in the Americas.

Personally can't wait to have @alondra.bsky.social and @amplify285.bsky.social up on the stage in dialogue with Milner and Lanier at the closing keynote of Who Owns Black Data, vol. 2. It's gonna be lit 🔥🔥🔥

Check out the program here:

wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/schedule/

You were excellent and we loved having you here. Don't be a stranger whenever you're in MD again - our doors are always open to you! 🌟

Here at this @aadhum-umd.bsky.social workshop today, @rudyfraser.com is taking us under (I mean under) the hood to play with and learn about creating custom feeds in bluesky, in this case developing custom algorithms— thinking about weights and requirements, definitions and filtering the firehose. 😍

Excellent audience question: how might the ethical and technical independence that undergirds #Blacksky be communicated its users? Fraser points us to this great explanatory thread by @msblis.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/msbl...

Fraser discussing complexity + difficulty of content moderation. Regardless: "Content moderation as community care and not a cost of business."

Also love the attn Blacksky has paid to inviting in diverse Black communities. 🌱 What emerges however is the added difficulty of intracommunity moderation.

Thinking Twitter as a uniquely Black app + shoutout to CashApp. Migrate to it, shape it, spread it... but not paid for it. Blacksky pushes against this, but Fraser notes its popularity (and Bsky's in gen) is tied to looking like Twitter. Fraser ties to skeuomorphism, familiarity. But what's next?

Love how Fraser turns directly to other on the ground work w/ mutual aid, which informs digital vision. Cites @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's desc of mutual aid: 'horizontal networks of solidarity,' quoting Matthew Whitley. Also, Dean Spade on distinction between non-profit work and mutual aid.

Here we go! @rudyfraser.com is describing matters of representing/supporting Black communities on social media. Turns to technical infrastructure: open source, user support, & other considerations. Thinking about systems that are sustainable, and that can operate well into the future.

All the thanks to Rico Chapman and Charmayne Patterson for convening and siting us here at thee AUC, and Clarence P. Wilson for keeping us on the rails. 🌱

From scholars working on independent projects to gatherings of #BlackDH centers and initiatives, it's been a great week at the Africana Digital Humanities @ HBCU's Convening! Keynote convo'ing w/ Kenton Rambsy & the GOAT Maryemma Graham; amazing panels for days + basking in Colored Conventions-isms

#Blacksky y'all. #blackDH #digitalhumanities

Marisa Parham - Department of English, University of Maryland The Black Studies Podcast · Episode

As I was saying to a friend today, it's always a privilege to have someone care about your ideas. Gratitude today to The Black Studies Podcast for this opportunity to chat w the glorious Ashley Newby @ digital things, Black Studies things, teaching things, & more! open.spotify.com/episode/6IdA...

Now take quantum sims & make them accessible— NLP that anyone can play with. Two turntables & a pocket of qubits? Also, thinking @ curation, a lá @lillianyvonne.bsky.social. Not merely machine generation, but working in relationship w/ computation to *see*, or maybe feel, differently. Entangling.

Our first example follows mimicking Markov chains and blackout poetry refracted thru quantum processing. Thinking about entanglement, the introduction of dynamism — the power of context-driven generation — to remix hip-hop, meaning music and poetry.

Still we march along with the love— excited here today for @awwsmith.bsky.social at MITH & @aadhum-umd.bsky.social. We’re talking about his progress on LiteraryDJ, which begins w/ the limits of classical computing vis-à-vis Black language, & exploring new possibilities in computing. Quantum y’all!

Apparently I am live-skying my heart.

Now we are bathed in Patricia Hill Collins’ deep intelligence, pointing us toward thinking @ AI & social relations. It feels good to be brought to attention by a person of such immense capacity to focus us in witness of her critical gaze.

And also. Sitting here with my lab folk, my students, and my colleagues Tahir Hemphill, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. Grateful.

Today? Advising projs, teaching my Black Digitalities grad course, & sitting @ this talk by @safiyanoble.bsky.social (How’s that for burying the lede?🌟) Moving constantly btw headlines & actually getting my job done. It’s a devilish both/and. Talks like this remind us why we must also do what we do

In this conversation with @umd-arhu.bsky.social, Jayson Porter, Hackett reminds us of Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean philosopher’s idea of opacity— the right to not always taking responsibility for translating cultural knowledge. Much at stake in thinking about where we locate archival material.

When we say digital @aadhum-umd.bsky.social, we mean ‘digital + experimental,’ which is how we think about our own version of #digitalhumanities

Today? Sitting here at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social listening to Curry J. Hackett on landscape, Black life, Black joy, and AI image generation.

AI? Ecology? Poetics? Black joy? Sign. me. up.

Join us this week as we welcome the renowned artist and technologist Curry Hackett to AADHum, for a campus workshop + the second event in our ongoing series at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville!

gorgeous.

AADHum & MITH got together and made a baby! We named it NarraSpace.

It feels good to push toward new and ever more interactive ways to share scholarship & to find and tell our stories — looking for the new new while also homebrewing... english.umd.edu/news/step-na...

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I should note that this Graphic History of Hip-Hop talk features live sketching by Tim Fielder! Illustrated notes, audience portraits. I am suspended between wholesomeness and innovation. Let us stay here forever in these times 😍