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It’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. So remember:

- We have always existed.
- We don’t owe you our stories.
- The value of our lives is not determined by how well we align with “cis” norms.
- We demand bodily autonomy and the right to gender self-determination.
- We deserve equal access to healthcare.
- We are not a wedge issue.

If non-trans people remembered these things then perhaps we would have fewer trans people to remember and more to remember with.

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It’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. So remember:

- We have always existed.
- We don’t owe you our stories.
- The value of our lives is not determined by how well we align with “cis” norms.
- We demand bodily autonomy and the right to gender self-determination.
- We deserve equal access to healthcare.
- We are not a wedge issue.

If non-trans people remembered these things then perhaps we would have fewer trans people to remember and more to remember with.

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I am not on here terribly often and mostly lurk. But in light of the recent election and the fact that I am a trans person living in the US. I wanted to share a poem I wrote a couple days ago:

—

The Fascist’s Boogeyman (she/her)

I am the fascist’s boogeyman
what goes bump in the night.

Destroying and corrupting
family, order, and what is right.

I am the fascist’s boogeyman
who steals gender on the sly.

Refusing to accept the roles
they’re hungry to apply.

I am the fascist’s boogeyman
when I laugh and laugh and laugh.

Mocking the cruel stories
they make on my behalf.

I am the fascist’s boogeyman
how do I make them shriek.

Being boldly in my body
my life a sharp critique.

—
#transartist #trans #transgender #FuckFascim #poetry

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I am not on here terribly often and mostly lurk. But in light of the recent election and the fact that I am a trans person living in the US. I wanted to share a poem I wrote a couple days ago:

—

The Fascist’s Boogeyman (she/her)

I am the fascist’s boogeyman
what goes bump in the night.

Destroying and corrupting
family, order, and what is right.

I am the fascist’s boogeyman
who steals gender on the sly.

Refusing to accept the roles
they’re hungry to apply.

I am the fascist’s boogeyman
when I laugh and laugh and laugh.

Mocking the cruel stories
they make on my behalf.

I am the fascist’s boogeyman
how do I make them shriek.

Being boldly in my body
my life a sharp critique.

—
#transartist #trans #transgender #FuckFascim #poetry

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@msbellows I am pretty sure it is bakelite. I purchased it from a thrift store and while the original box is included, it does not have the information. But, the sellers tag stated "from the 1950s made of bakelite".

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@msbellows I am pretty sure it is bakelite. I purchased it from a thrift store and while the original box is included, it does not have the information. But, the sellers tag stated "from the 1950s made of bakelite".

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@TheIdOfAlan thanks! And happy to share: I am using transparency film designed for inkjet and an epson 9000 series printer. Since I am going for a foggy look, I am less concerned with crisp lines which helps. In my tests though, it did a pretty good job with hard lines. I am also only doing black and white so I am not sure what color would look like. Overall it seems like a pretty solid alternative to developing actual film which I don't have access to at the moment. I am also using a tool that converts single images into stereo images so they end up with that classic "3D" look.

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@TheIdOfAlan thanks! And happy to share: I am using transparency film designed for inkjet and an epson 9000 series printer. Since I am going for a foggy look, I am less concerned with crisp lines which helps. In my tests though, it did a pretty good job with hard lines. I am also only doing black and white so I am not sure what color would look like. Overall it seems like a pretty solid alternative to developing actual film which I don't have access to at the moment. I am also using a tool that converts single images into stereo images so they end up with that classic "3D" look.

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Currently making View Master discs for a show in San Francisco. Made using transparency film and laser cut recycled paper, the work will be displayed on this vintage (1950s) View Master.

This work is about fog and trans visibility and is part of a larger body of work on the same subject.

Thinking about the potential of low/no power display technologies of the past and what their formal qualities (in this case 7 stereographic images in intimate proximity of the body) might offer.

#oldnewmedia #newmedia #creativetechnologies #viewmaster #nopower #lowtech #trans #transartist #newmediaart #contemporaryart #stereogram

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Currently making View Master discs for a show in San Francisco. Made using transparency film and laser cut recycled paper, the work will be displayed on this vintage (1950s) View Master.

This work is about fog and trans visibility and is part of a larger body of work on the same subject.

Thinking about the potential of low/no power display technologies of the past and what their formal qualities (in this case 7 stereographic images in intimate proximity of the body) might offer.

#oldnewmedia #newmedia #creativetechnologies #viewmaster #nopower #lowtech #trans #transartist #newmediaart #contemporaryart #stereogram

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A photo of a white paper View Master disc with the words “Fog as in…” printed in the center.

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A close up of a brown View Master showing the window displaying the disc title which reads “Fog as in…”.

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View inside the one side of a View Master showing the phase I may not change them directly but they surely change when seen in relation to me” in foggy text.

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Its been awhile since I have posted but I have a new net art piece up with e-flux journal! Its a hand coded art website that remixes and hacks the book "A Hacker Manifesto" by McKenzie Wark for its 20th anniversary. It can be viewed for free at:

https://www. e-flux.com/journal/146/613420/a-hacked-manifesto/

#netart #creativecoding #webdev #eflux #newmediaart

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Its been awhile since I have posted but I have a new net art piece up with e-flux journal! Its a hand coded art website that remixes and hacks the book "A Hacker Manifesto" by McKenzie Wark for its 20th anniversary. It can be viewed for free at:

https://www. e-flux.com/journal/146/613420/a-hacked-manifesto/

#netart #creativecoding #webdev #eflux #newmediaart

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Excited to be part of The Wrong Biennale as part of “Net art died but is doing well” with my piece “Landmarks” which explores the politics of visibility in relationship to trans bodies and facial recognition.

https://fabiofon.com/netart-is-doing-w ell/

#TheWrongBiennale #netart #newmediaart #transstudies #contemporaryart #creativecoding

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Excited to be part of The Wrong Biennale as part of “Net art died but is doing well” with my piece “Landmarks” which explores the politics of visibility in relationship to trans bodies and facial recognition.

https://fabiofon.com/netart-is-doing-w ell/

#TheWrongBiennale #netart #newmediaart #transstudies #contemporaryart #creativecoding

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@exquisitecorp I love this! Huge Borges fan and really enjoy the image/text combinations.

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@exquisitecorp I love this! Huge Borges fan and really enjoy the image/text combinations.

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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 🙂