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april vendetta (they/them) explores themes of control, labor, and sexual play through D.I.Y. surveillance to question the human body's physicality and resilience. They are co-founder of HUMAN TRASH DUMP. HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participant’s stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud.

Contact: humantrashdump@gmail.com

 

Resources

HUMAN TRASH DUMP on archive.org (an imperfect solution due to some censorship issues*)

HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participants stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud.

Fragmented-Body / Fragmented Archive (this presentation took place during New York Archives Week Symposium hosted by The Archivists Round Table (A.R.T.) of Metropolitan New York on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 at 3:45 PM EST.)

 

1. vendetta: the fragmented archive

Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase (presentation took place as part in the Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase Hosted by the Queens College Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists & the Archival Technologies Lab. AERI 2021 virtual conference.

Conditions & Possibilities - Organized by Noah Ortega (Artist talk back after a collective/individual public action(s) outside the New York Stock Exchange, 2021)

Action In The Street: A Guide to Performing & Archiving Public Exchange

21s thesis Griess archive copy

thesis part II

*http://www.albatross.website/albatrossartfair (scroll down for human trash dump/april vendetta. Artwork created about being censored and having my personal account locked on the internet archive)

Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software

NYU dean sends R.E.M. dance video as part of response to students' call for tuition refund

Additional Links

INSTITUTION IS A VERB : A PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LAB COMPILATION (FREE PDF)

Fugitivision TV - One Man: The Liberation Project

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz

The Black Trans Archive - Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

The Black Trans Archive Is Revolutionizing How We Tell Queer History

One Black Woman’s Path to Librarianship (and Some Advice) - Interview with Gina Murrell

I’m Leaving the Archival Profession: It’s Better This Way by Jarrett M. Drake

Archiving Series: Archiving Through People

We Still Can't Eat Prestige: Lessons from Arts and Cultural Worker Organizing

Artists Against Displacement

Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the Lower East Side

PETITION: Stop Displacement in Lower Manhattan

National Mobilization Against Sweatshops

January Week of Action to Demand: #CancelStudentDebt https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-to-join-our-cancel-student-debt-week-of-action/

https://debtcollective.org

Resources for Artists, Activists, and Archivists (compiled by April in their thesis)

• Joan Mitchell Foundation Professional Development & Resources for Artists

joanmitchellfoundation.org/professional-development

• NFPF Grants

filmpreservation.org/nfpf-grants

• SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) Family Album – Getting Started: Preservation Guide for your Personal Archive

saada.org/familyalbum/resources

• Smithsonian Institution Archives – How to Do Oral History Guide

siarchives.si.edu/history/how-do-oral-history

• Starting an Artist Interview Program: Hard-Earned Lessons on Best Practices by Tim Lillis and Erica Gangsei

sfmoma.org/read/starting-artist-interview-program

• Volunteer Lawyers for The Arts - New York

vlany.org

• Witness – Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video

archiving.witness.org/archive-guide

• XFR Collective

xfrcollective.wordpress.com/resources

EAI - Electronic Arts Intermix

VDB - Video Data Bank

 

We’re finally here! The Leather Archives & Museum episode! We talk about… the Leather Archives. Just listen to it. 

https://twitter.com/leatherarchives 

https://www.instagram.com/leatherarchives/

Become a member of the Leather Archives

ROAM Program benefits

References

Bound together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

“Thinking Sex”, Gayle Rubin

leatherdyke gender technology - by Daemonum X - Dead but Delicious

This week we’re joined by Miriam Posner and Matthew Hannah to talk about digital humanities stuff! We talk about creating a Marxist political economy for DH, and what it means to do Radical DH. We mention map projections, labor issues, self identification, and why the Silent Hill III remake is bad.

Student collaborator bill of rights

Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights | hc:26741 | Humanities CORE 

Levels of Digital Preservation (DLF) 

Do Better - Love(,) Us | Do Better Labor 

Links to Miriam’s Stuff

Miriam’s website

On DH

The Radical, Unrealized Potential of DH

How Did They Make That?

Bunch of tutorials (a lot of people use these in their teaching)

Why is it so hard to do digital humanities in the library?

On supply chains, etc.

See No Evil

The Software that Shapes Workers’ Lives

Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains

Links to Matthew’s Stuff

Matthew’s website

A Political Economy of Digital Humanities Vision Statement

A Political Economy of Digital Humanities: New Directions CFP for ACH 2021

On DH 

Inclusive Infrastructure: Digital Scholarship Centers and the Academic Library Liaison

We are joined by Kat Klement who presented at the OpenEd21 conference on their course Queer Psychology, which they built using free and openly licensed materials (including OER). We talk about finding resources, modifying courses, how does one queer psychology, and, of course, the TV show Chopped.

#OpenEd21: OER as a Tool to Decenter Whiteness: A Q…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e11vGa9zRs 

https://twitter.com/krklement

We’re joined by the brains behind the Article Finder Network (https://twitter.com/article_finder) to talk about their massively popular new project, how library twitter got weird about it, and John Bagford. 

 

https://twitter.com/article_finder

https://twitter.com/LauraMorreale

https://twitter.com/leoba

 

References:

“Guerilla Open Access Manifesto”

The General Index: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8 

Diego Gomez: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/support-diego-gomez-and-join-global-open-access-movement  

Unpaywall: https://unpaywall.org/ 

https://www.libkey.io/

John Bagford asides:

Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork|Paperback

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagford

This week we’re joined by Dr. Jeanie Austin to discuss their research on information services for incarcerated people. We discuss the way mailroom policies and content bans have inherent anti-Black and anti-LGBT bigotry, and how these policies cut off incarcerated people from their communities. We talk about how LIS as a field has abandoned its role in providing information services to incarcerated people and how we can learn lessons from the librarians of the 70s.

 

Austin, J., Charenko, M, Dillon, M. and Lincoln, J. (2020). Systemic oppression and the contested ground of information access for incarcerated people. Open Information Science. 4(1), 169-185. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opis-2020-0013/

Austin, J. and Villa-Nicholas, M. (2019). Information provision and the carceral state: Race and reference beyond the idea of the “underserved.” The Reference Librarian. 60(4), 233-261.

Jeanie’s book - Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access https://www.alastore.ala.org/lsai 

Jeanie’s website - https://jeanieaustin.com/

Jeanie’s research in the ALA archives -  https://jeanieaustin.com/2021/09/24/timeline-additions/ 

Referenced in the episode:

Abolitionist Library Association: https://abolitionistlibraryassociation.org/ 

Earhustle podcast - https://www.earhustlesq.com/
Drakeo - GTL the prison phone https://www.npr.org/2020/08/28/906807077/prison-telecom-business-indicted-by-rap-album-recorded-in-jail 

Tracie D. Hall, A Hurting Thing - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/05/03/a-hurting-thing-school-to-prison-pipeline/ 

Tracie D. Hall, Defending the Fifth Freedom -  https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/01/04/defending-fifth-freedom-information-access-prisons/ 

Resist Everything Except Temptation - https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html 

Prisoners Pay to Read - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prisoners-pay-to-read-prison-tablets/ 

When Biometrics Fail - https://www.dukeupress.edu/when-biometrics-fail 

Organizations:

Prison Book Program - https://prisonbookprogram.org/prisonbooknetwork/ Find a local organization here. 

A Room of One's Own wish list for LGBT prisoners - https://www.roomofonesown.com/wishlist/82 

Books to Prisoners - https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/ 

TGI Justice - http://www.tgijp.org/ 

Reforma Children in Crisis - https://refugeechildren.wixsite.com/refugee-children 

PEN America - https://pen.org/prison-writing/ 

Black and Pink PenPal Network - https://blackandpinkpenpals.org/ 

Prison Library Support Network (PLSN)- https://plsn-nyc.tumblr.com/ 

Chicago Books to Women in Prison - https://chicagobwp.org/ 

LGBT Books to Prisoners - https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org/

Welcome boils and ghouls, to the first episode of horrorpunk, the premiere podcast for information science and materialist analysis of horror movies starring your favorite co-ghosts from the Horror Vanguard podcast, Ash and Jon. We talk about loss and how we deal with it, and the sometimes bad habits that creates for us in seeking explanations. We also talk (well, glance over) how Irish Americans continue to appropriate Celtic nationalism for no real reason. And we answer the question: who’s gonna pay this dang ghost? 

https://twitter.com/HorrorVanguard

https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy

https://twitter.com/darrowvania

https://www.youtube.com/c/JonTheLitCritGuy

We're joined this week by Rebecca, a public librarian and former prison librarian to talk about her experience working in a state prison library. 

https://twitter.com/britlitgeek 

Items mentioned:

Abolitionist Library Association 

Increasing Access to Quality Educational Resources to Support Higher Education in Prison

Advancing Technological Equity for Incarcerated College Students

Outside and In: Services for People Impacted By Incarceration

J Pay drafts update https://twitter.com/ChrisWBlackwell/status/1432726185201389574

This week we’re joined by Kay and Kyle from the All Gamers Are Bastards podcast. We’re talking about video game preservation, modes of production, piracy, and, of course, Boss Baby. 

https://twitter.com/kayandskittles

https://www.youtube.com/c/KayAndSkittles

https://twitter.com/laborkyle

https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle 

https://twitter.com/agabpod

Why Disco Elysium Is The Most Hopeful Game I've Ever Played (Feat. Laborkyle) 

Readings

https://twitter.com/aswatki1/status/1407120973900431360?s=20

Sony Thinks Cloud Gaming Can Eliminate Piracy (and Consoles)

The Expanded DMCA Exemption for Video Game Preservation Grants a Small Victory Amidst the Seventh Triennial Rulemaking

PS3 and PS4 games about to become unplayable

We got Sam back on to talk about intellectual freedom and give us our regular Canada Library Shenanigans update. 

https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/irreversible-damage

https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/irreversible-damage-part-two

https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/the-populism-of-intellectual-freedom

https://litwinbooks.com/books/in-solidarity/

Sam’s twitter: https://twitter.com/redlibrarian