Two Recent Interviews on Mass Shooting Responses

I was interviewed for two recent articles on responses to mass shootings:

• Processing Grief: Archivists, Librarians, and Museum Professionals Help Communities Heal on the American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History magazine, and

• an AP news article published in the Tampa Bay Times Garden provides place to mourn Las Vegas shooting victims.

The continued relevance of The Story of the Stuff and interview requests sadden me deeply, and the thoughts I expressed in the Perspectives piece are so true to my sentiment:

Maynor says she’s “curious to see if we’re at a turning point” when it comes to creating new condolence collections. With each mass shooting, she says, “people are responding with either apathy or activism” (as in the case of Parkland). “There seems to be much less expression of grief because we’ve been grieving. We’ve been grieving for a decade since Virginia Tech.” She hopes that the country is at a juncture: “My personal hope would be . . . that we’re able to prevent a lot of this from happening in the first place.”

Selected for 2018 F/S Residency

I'm thrilled to have been selected for the 2018 cohort of Forward Slash Story. I'm one of international 15 artists selected to attend a short creative lab/residency in Lamu, Kenya, designed to broker new international collaborations in a lab environment for technologists, writers, developers, and designers who work in uncharted territories. I can't wait to meet these other fine folks and see what we learn together!

National Humanities Center Summer Institute on Objects, Places & the Digital Humanities

This summer I also wrapped up a two-year fellowship as part of The Summer Institute on Objects, Places, and the Digital Humanities at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

We focused on the theory and practice of digital work for topics in art, architecture, urban history or material culture and training with tools for geospatial mapping, 3D modeling, photogrammetry, and data collection and visualization.

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Awarded NEH Summer Institute Fellowship

I'm thrilled to be spending four weeks this summer with 25 other fellows exploring "how the book’s evolving material qualities promote and circulate cultural knowledge" as part of the NEH Summer Institute The Book: Material Pasts & Digital Futures.

During each week, Monday through Thursday, participants will gather in the morning to study readings, engage with visiting faculty, and examine the cultural history and significance of the book in its various forms. Each afternoon, participants will interpret the book-as-technology through the activity of making a range of historical, contemporary, and experimental books and book forms that relate directly to key scholarly readings. Fridays will be dedicated to independent study, open production space, and one-to-one assistance and instruction. And the workshop culminates with the creation of individual artist books that respond to multiple forms of embodiment. These will be on exhibit at the Salt Lake Public Library for two months.