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@jake4480 thank you! :)

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@jake4480 thank you! :)

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My digital project commission for the San José Museum of Art opens today! The work is titled “The Fog” and is centered around the politics of knowledge making, data collection, and trans visibility through an exploration of fog as a common subject/trope of horror narratives as well as metaphor used in military strategy. It can be viewed here:
https://sjmusart.org/digital-projects/chelsea-thompto
#contemporaryart #newmedia #netart #creativecoding #threejs #transstudies #transgender #fog #ascii

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My digital project commission for the San José Museum of Art opens today! The work is titled “The Fog” and is centered around the politics of knowledge making, data collection, and trans visibility through an exploration of fog as a common subject/trope of horror narratives as well as metaphor used in military strategy. It can be viewed here:
https://sjmusart.org/digital-projects/chelsea-thompto
#contemporaryart #newmedia #netart #creativecoding #threejs #transstudies #transgender #fog #ascii

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A screenshot of the San Jose Museum of Art home page. The banner image is a large black and white image of fog that is from Chelsea Thompto’s artwork “The Fog”.

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As I am building my new net art piece, I have been thinking about this art series by Jaklin Romine: https://www. jaklinromine.com/work/access-d enied .

Her work confronts the inaccessible nature of many art galleries. I don't want to reproduce this kind of inaccessibility online and so I ave been learning new skills in order to make the project more accessible. This includes using a screen reader for the first time, wrapping my head around aria and the accessibility tree, and how to properly format/label ASCII art for accessibility purposes.

The process has been simultaneously: illuminating, challenging, and rewarding.

#webdev #webaccessibility #ascii #asciiart #contemporaryart #netart #newmediaart #creativecode

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As I am building my new net art piece, I have been thinking about this art series by Jaklin Romine: https://www. jaklinromine.com/work/access-d enied .

Her work confronts the inaccessible nature of many art galleries. I don't want to reproduce this kind of inaccessibility online and so I ave been learning new skills in order to make the project more accessible. This includes using a screen reader for the first time, wrapping my head around aria and the accessibility tree, and how to properly format/label ASCII art for accessibility purposes.

The process has been simultaneously: illuminating, challenging, and rewarding.

#webdev #webaccessibility #ascii #asciiart #contemporaryart #netart #newmediaart #creativecode

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Today, I had the wonderful pleasure of having #millerpuckette the original developer of the #max software come and speak to my #creativecoding students! I know nothing about max, #maxmsp , or #puredata / #pd (my avenue into code had nothing to do with music) but I followed along and made this little #patch. He was incredibly generous with his time and expertise and he rolled into the room rocking a laptop running Linux which impressed more than a few students. Seriously such an inspiring visit!

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Today, I had the wonderful pleasure of having #millerpuckette the original developer of the #max software come and speak to my #creativecoding students! I know nothing about max, #maxmsp , or #puredata / #pd (my avenue into code had nothing to do with music) but I followed along and made this little #patch. He was incredibly generous with his time and expertise and he rolled into the room rocking a laptop running Linux which impressed more than a few students. Seriously such an inspiring visit!

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A black and white image of a coding patch in the software Pure Data. The top features a network of lines and rectangles and there is a graph along the bottom.

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Lots of studio work this week for my digital project “The Fog” commissioned by the San Jose Museum of Art and opening online in November. The #screenshot here is of “Act 2” which focuses on fog in horror narratives. Working on foggy procedurally generated spaces in #threejs rendered in an #asciiart style and leveraging browser text-to-speech to deliver excerpts from horror narratives.

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Lots of studio work this week for my digital project “The Fog” commissioned by the San Jose Museum of Art and opening online in November. The #screenshot here is of “Act 2” which focuses on fog in horror narratives. Working on foggy procedurally generated spaces in #threejs rendered in an #asciiart style and leveraging browser text-to-speech to deliver excerpts from horror narratives.

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A 3D space with dark ground and light sky rendered in ASCII characters in black and white. The scene has buildings in the background and text in the foreground that reads “…in the fog.”

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One of the most frustrating and constant aspects of being a #transwoman in #highered is young cishet white (mostly male-identifying) students being openly dubious about my expertise and disrespectful at even the slightest hint of critical feedback. It is especially bad in the technical aspects of my teaching #webdev #creativecode .

This has been happening throughout my 4+ years as a full time faculty member and across all institutions at which I have taught.

#academicchatter #academia #trans

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One of the most frustrating and constant aspects of being a #transwoman in #highered is young cishet white (mostly male-identifying) students being openly dubious about my expertise and disrespectful at even the slightest hint of critical feedback. It is especially bad in the technical aspects of my teaching #webdev #creativecode .

This has been happening throughout my 4+ years as a full time faculty member and across all institutions at which I have taught.

#academicchatter #academia #trans

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This also not to say that I think retro computing is an inherently bad or immoral term but only to say that I appreciate the specificity of language the wiki provides. I think we need more labor and attention turned to older systems and digital/technological #stewardship in general. Big Tech's infinite growth mentality is a lie, #degrowth and #reuse are our only paths forward.

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This also not to say that I think retro computing is an inherently bad or immoral term but only to say that I appreciate the specificity of language the wiki provides. I think we need more labor and attention turned to older systems and digital/technological #stewardship in general. Big Tech's infinite growth mentality is a lie, #degrowth and #reuse are our only paths forward.

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After reading the excellent #wiki at https://permacomputing.net/ by @320x200 and @viznut I changed the hashtag in my intro from #retrocomputing to #permacomputing as it really attends to my interest in older tech in a more accurate way. I am not interested in nostalgia or considering systems dead due to a lack of perceived economic value.

I so appreciate the care and attention to detail in this wiki, if you have an interest in this stuff and haven't taken a look you should!

Hoping to be able to teach a class on ecologically informed new media practices in the coming year or two and this will be so valuable!

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After reading the excellent #wiki at https://permacomputing.net/ by @320x200 and @viznut I changed the hashtag in my intro from #retrocomputing to #permacomputing as it really attends to my interest in older tech in a more accurate way. I am not interested in nostalgia or considering systems dead due to a lack of perceived economic value.

I so appreciate the care and attention to detail in this wiki, if you have an interest in this stuff and haven't taken a look you should!

Hoping to be able to teach a class on ecologically informed new media practices in the coming year or two and this will be so valuable!

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@palomakop hey thanks! So happy to hear it resonates with people and that it might help/inspire/support other people's teaching 🙂

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@palomakop hey thanks! So happy to hear it resonates with people and that it might help/inspire/support other people's teaching 🙂

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Work continues on my fog commission. Exploring #fog as both a figure/trope in horror and as a positive role model for #trans embodiment. Creating 3D environments with #threejs that contain foggy objects, texts, and environments that are rendered in #ASCII characters. Learning more about #shaders, animation, object manipulation, and #proceduralgeneration in the process.

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Work continues on my fog commission. Exploring #fog as both a figure/trope in horror and as a positive role model for #trans embodiment. Creating 3D environments with #threejs that contain foggy objects, texts, and environments that are rendered in #ASCII characters. Learning more about #shaders, animation, object manipulation, and #proceduralgeneration in the process.

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A screenshot of a web browser with the developer panel open. The webpage is a 3D space with fog textures and text rendered in white ASCII characters on a black background. The developer panel shows the console which is displaying text generated from console.log commands.

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@srfirehorseart Thanks! I would say it's mostly home computers right now but I do have a project in mind that involves refurnishing and/or recreating computing devices from the 1930s-1950s as part of an art installation. This is very much just a seed of an idea right now though.

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@srfirehorseart Thanks! I would say it's mostly home computers right now but I do have a project in mind that involves refurnishing and/or recreating computing devices from the 1930s-1950s as part of an art installation. This is very much just a seed of an idea right now though.

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@Impossible_PhD yeah wow, that would be a lot to process.

HRT is such an interesting process, so many big changes in the first few years but looking back, I can see that things also changed between years 5-10. Being on it for over a decade now has me curious what non-HRT me would look like at this age.

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@Impossible_PhD yeah wow, that would be a lot to process.

HRT is such an interesting process, so many big changes in the first few years but looking back, I can see that things also changed between years 5-10. Being on it for over a decade now has me curious what non-HRT me would look like at this age.

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@Impossible_PhD this is all so true. I started transitioning roughly 13 years ago (I am in my mid thirties now) and it was over 5 years of being out before I met a trans person who was over 30. It does real and ongoing damage to us as a community.

I have also been referred to as a “trans elder” recently and it is so telling that someone would consider a person in their mid-thirties an elder.

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@Impossible_PhD this is all so true. I started transitioning roughly 13 years ago (I am in my mid thirties now) and it was over 5 years of being out before I met a trans person who was over 30. It does real and ongoing damage to us as a community.

I have also been referred to as a “trans elder” recently and it is so telling that someone would consider a person in their mid-thirties an elder.

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@kayserifserif I wrote a little blog about this in relation to my own art/code work in 2021, maybe be of interest?

https://chelsea.technology/writing/blo g/posts/10_5_21.html

I totally agree with your sentiments, love how reading code can conjure a version of its writer in your mind.

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@kayserifserif I wrote a little blog about this in relation to my own art/code work in 2021, maybe be of interest?

https://chelsea.technology/writing/blo g/posts/10_5_21.html

I totally agree with your sentiments, love how reading code can conjure a version of its writer in your mind.

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A quick preview of my current #workinprogress. Using #threejs with #ascii filtering and mouse interaction to create an scene where viewers click and drag planes of acsii symbols to reveal the overlayed text. The text is separate from the scene and uses #css to overlay while remaining non-interactive thereby allowing the three.js scene to interacted with uninterrupted.

This is my first museum commissioned work and it explores #fog as an aspirational figure for #trans embodiment.

#newmedia

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A quick preview of my current #workinprogress. Using #threejs with #ascii filtering and mouse interaction to create an scene where viewers click and drag planes of acsii symbols to reveal the overlayed text. The text is separate from the scene and uses #css to overlay while remaining non-interactive thereby allowing the three.js scene to interacted with uninterrupted.

This is my first museum commissioned work and it explores #fog as an aspirational figure for #trans embodiment.

#newmedia

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A website with a black background and white ascii characters creating an interactive 3D environment.

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@artistsandhackers Thanks! 🙂

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@artistsandhackers Thanks! 🙂

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Hello!

I am an artist and professor of Creative Technologies at Virginia Tech. In my work, I focus on the ways technologies of visualization and control intersect with and threaten #trans lives.

I work in #creativecode, #sculpture, #writing, #artistbooks, and more. Lately I have been doing a lot of #webdev for my projects and in my teaching.

Earlier this year, I combined my #HTML / #CSS / #JavaScript teaching resources into a single (free and open) site that I am really proud of:

https://byhand.website

I am also interested in #horror, #scifi, #solarpunk, #permacomputing, #historyoftechnology, #transstudies, #maps, #archives, #zines, and #ttrpgs.

#introductions

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Hello!

I am an artist and professor of Creative Technologies at Virginia Tech. In my work, I focus on the ways technologies of visualization and control intersect with and threaten #trans lives.

I work in #creativecode, #sculpture, #writing, #artistbooks, and more. Lately I have been doing a lot of #webdev for my projects and in my teaching.

Earlier this year, I combined my #HTML / #CSS / #JavaScript teaching resources into a single (free and open) site that I am really proud of:

https://byhand.website

I am also interested in #horror, #scifi, #solarpunk, #permacomputing, #historyoftechnology, #transstudies, #maps, #archives, #zines, and #ttrpgs.

#introductions