AADHum = Black Digital and Experimental Humanities at UMD

06/14/2024

In many ways our open labs are at the heart of AADHum, and nothing’s better than taking our show on the road! 🤸🏾‍♀️

Microprocessors, some coding, some painting— We can’t wait to tell you all about workshopping with high schoolers at the Hyattsville public library this week!

In the meantime check out this week’s team. We come prepared 👾💅🏾

06/03/2024

Applications Open ⇢ Social Media Corps fellowship! Due June 14, 2024 -

Applications are open for the 2024 AADHum Social Media Corps short-term fellowship program!

04/22/2024

We are so so SO looking forward to welcoming these folk to MITH & AADHum this week.

Join Jessica Marie Johnson and the Keywords for Black Louisiana team for a meeting of big minds n' big hearts, doing the scholarship our souls need today more than ever.

In person on Tues. 4/23 @ 5:15pm | Hornbake 0301 (MITH)

01/04/2024

Welcome [unhurried] {witness}!

Seren Sensei's project creates a "a digital exploration and a visual representation of analog games such as card games, dice, dominoes, paper crafts, and rhyming hand games/hand motions, as healing cultural process among Black Americans."

✨ Come play!

seren sensei's {unhurried} [witness] is a digital exploration and visual representation of analog games such as card games, dice, dominoes, paper crafts, and rhyming hand games/hand motions, as healing cultural process among Black Americans. This digital experience explores how the observation, even...

01/03/2024

Over the past year the 2022-23 AADHum fellows have been working on a range of innovative digital projects. In the next quarter we will be sharing those projects with you!

Next up? We're launching into the new year with Seren Sensei's [unhurried] {witness}! The beta for this project will be released on January 3. Stay tuned...

Over the past year the 2022-23 AADHum fellows have been working on a range of innovative digital projects. In the next quarter we will be sharing those projects with you.

12/05/2023

📚✍💥Join us Wed., Dec. 6 at 7pm in the Ulrich Recital Hall for the *Writers Here & Now faculty reading* featuring MFA Program Director Lillian-Yvonne Bertram & their latest poetry collection, NEGATIVE MONEY (Soft Skull Press, 2023)!📚✍💥Dr. Bertram will be introduced by Distinguished University Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum. Jiménez-Porter Writers' House University of Maryland Department of English University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities University of Maryland Alumni Association AADHum = Black Digital and Experimental Humanities at UMD

12/04/2023

History buffs can now peruse over 100 years of Maryland birth, marriage, death and other records online at the Internet Archive.

12/01/2023

Monthly microgrant apps due first day of every month... like TODAY!

Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible, from all University System of Maryland schools + Morgan State University.

https://bit.ly/aadhum_microgrants

12/01/2023

We have so much more to say: about our awesome staff, our *amazing* fellows projects, student microgrant recipients, and all the things.

But right now it feels important to register this. 💌

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So wow, this happened.

Needless to say, continuing our vision for seeding and cultivating joyful, creative, and incisive scholarship has us over the moon here at AADHum. We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to steward resources committed to research in Black Study.

So many thanks of course to the , especially in their support for boundary-crossing humanistic inquiry. Thank you also to Dean Shonekan, , & : it feels good to work with people who support big ideas and all the myriad ways we help them land well.

So many people have supported this work, from the colleagues who listen to our wild ideas, to the families patient with the late nights and weekends of grant writing and ex*****on, to the participants at our workshops, talks, and *all the things.*

I am sure there is more to say, but for now I am just thinking thank you thank you thank you. Because in times when grief and uncertainty are increasingly met with abrogation, with the pulling back of resources and the structural denial of arts and humanities experiences that sustain our souls and help us parse our worldly relations... Thank you...

If you want to learn more about — what we've been up to and where we are heading — you can follow us on the bird, face, or picture socials (.umd), visit our website at https://aadhum.umd.edu, or just take a moment to peruse and signup updates at our news site at https://aadhum.umd.edu/news

(thank you 🌱)

11/29/2023

Looking for more? 👀

We’ve added a news, information, and updates page to our website!

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Visit aadhum.umd.edu/news (or link in bio) for aadhum news and writing!

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11/13/2023

Woo! — The last few weeks have been busy busy...

We are so pleased to have had Dorothy Berry in the house on 11/1, hosted at MITH and organized by the lovely folks at the Center for Archival Futures (CAFe)!

Then, a week later, our own Liz Alexander, giving a theory and practice talk for the AfAm department, on data analytics, refracted through Audre Lorde's poetics.

Dr. Alexander moved us from thinking about P*alantir contracts with the Chicago PD, to some data possibilities in Janelle Monaé 's oeuvre, to Alexander's own experimentation in physical computing. 🔥

Find some tweets for both events, and links to Dr. Alexander's work in our link in bio. And keep an eye out for her Spring talk / workshop! 🌱

10/31/2023

Join us for an afternoon w/ Dorothy Berry, Digital Curator extraordinaire — The National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Wed. 11/1 @ 4pm

MITH | Hornbake 0301 (ground floor), with snacks at 3!

This talk is hosted by CAFe, with support fr BCaT_DISCO, AADHum, & MITH

Register to join us in-person or join virtually. https://buff.ly/3Pso6Ua

10/31/2023

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We are now accepting applications to be a 2024 DSL community fellow! 🎊 Community Fellows are non-academic/non-institutionally affiliated community organizers, artists, farmers, or cultural workers/groups who collaborate on projects with other participants and innovate DSL-sponsored projects of their own. Chosen applicants will receive $5000. To learn more and apply, click the link in our bio!
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10/12/2023

TODAY! 4pm

Register below or with link in bio! 💫

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The African American Public Humanities Institute at is hosting two .umd faculty members as part of Future/Now, an event exploring the use of data to tell humanities stories.

Andrew W. Smith will discuss LiteraryDJ, a digital remixing engine, and BlackCovidCare, a sonic exploration project.
Elizabeth Murice Alexander will discuss a measure between, a digital literary studies project.

Visit http://bit.ly/future-now-udel23 to register for this event!
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09/21/2023

Ooh la la, AADHum microgrants have launched 💸

Students can apply for up to $250 to support digital and/ or experimental projects that are grounded in humanities-based approaches to the study or expression of Black life!

We accept applications on a rolling basis throughout the year, with deadlines on the first of each month. We welcome projects across a wide range of scopes and durations, from single-day sprints to projects spanning up to 3 months.

The AADHum microgrant program is open to undergrad and grad students at UMD, across the University System of Maryland, and Morgan State University.

🔆 Click our link in bio for more information, or go to https://bit.ly/aadhum_microgrants

We encourage applications from students across all majors and programs, but note that we are looking for projects that center humanities approaches to Black life, expressed either through or in relation to digital or experimental technologies. Check our application page (link in bio) if you're looking to get a handle on what that means! 😉

04/29/2023

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Mark your calendars and join us for our biggest event of the year! Code: Black will be hosting the 2nd annual BLACKFEST 🎡We are collaborating with some of your favorite black orgs including, ASA, BSU, BES and more!

Come out to enjoy live music, free food, raffles, and a great time! Don’t miss out on the event of the year 🎟️
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04/20/2023

Guest speaker Dr. Van Tran Nguyen will lead a hands-on video editing workshop showcasing green screen as a digital narrative form. She will also discuss her own video practice, highlighting her use of green screen as a medium for diasporic folklore. This workshop will be offered in-person and also streamed online.

Come learn to use a simple green screen to explore notions of home, place, and diasporic experience....

Greenscreening Diaspora :: Friday, April 28 at 12pm EST
https://mailchi.mp/1718e3ef2c22/greenscreening

03/15/2023

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Calling all Caribbean digital artists! 🎨🌴 Don't miss your chance to apply for the Caribbean Digital Virtual Artist's Residency program, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. This virtual residency will provide you with a cash stipend of US$5,000, curatorial mentorship, virtual studio visits, and more. You'll have six months to develop new artworks in digital media that investigate ideas and practices in Caribbean Digital Humanities and engage with scholars in the TCD network and community. To apply, complete the online form and upload your application package by April 15, 2023. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to take your digital art to the next level! All relevant links are available in our link tree.
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03/12/2023

Is "Treats of AADHum" a thing?

Yes. Yes it is.

When people are still asking you about your food weeks or even months later, you know you did good!🍴

Across AADHum's recent events 🥘 jollof, stew, efo riro, nopales, memeles, tabbouleh, plantains, eggplant, shawarma, suya... popcorn

Not pictured — our amazing DIY flavored seltzer bar! 🧪

03/02/2023

Good chats, good folks, and a whole lot of Jollof... so grateful for all the many, many, *many* peeps who came thru to visit our new humanities design studio launch last week! 💗

AADHum's small but mighty prototyping and gathering space is designed toward Black Study, intellectual kinship, introspection, and creation in digital and experimental humanities.

It's been a long and intensive journey developing this next vision for AADHum. Thanks to African American Studies, helping us figure out deliveries, generously allowing us to expand our larger gatherings into their (gorgeous) conference room, and all the things™. And thanks of course to the dean's office, for their ongoing support for the campus' initiatives, and also for making space for us to rethink what "the humanities" can do.

Also thanks to umd facilities, hanging pegboards, installing new doors and security, swapping out ceiling tiles, securing lockers, and whole lot of paint— We did it! 💅🏾 🔨

02/21/2023

**Updated Event Time** 1pm-2pm on Wed 2/15 - Filmmaker, photographer, author, and public speaker St. Clair Detrick-Jules discusses what she's learned through her almost four-year-long journey photographing & interviewing 101 Black women with natural hair.

02/21/2023

And ooh la la. Our livestream is working... we think...

Come take a glimpse of AR with Snap Lens Studio, a SnapAR workshop led by AADHum and MITH's Andrew Smith!

AR with Snap Lens Studio

02/21/2023

Join us TODAY to learn dev using Snap Lens Studio! Register for virtual (link in bio), or just come thru—

Tues., 2/21 @ 1pm
at MITH (bottom level, Hornbake Library)

This hands-on workshop is led by
AADHum's Andrew Smith () & takes place at MITH

⌘ Learn more at https://bit.ly/snap-ar-page

12/10/2022

AADHum is so very excited to be here celebrating the launch of the ‘Black COVID Care’ website at Stable Arts DC.

Created by Dr. Allie Martin & the Black Sound Lab, the site is powered by data sonifications performed by **t, resisting the binary thrust of data collection.

12/07/2022

This Saturday at 5pm, head to DC's STABLE Arts to catch Allie Martin's *Black Covid Care*, a performance and opening in honor of her digital project collaboration with DC's own BOOMs**t!

Built out of Martin's .sound.lab, with programming and development support from Andrew Smith of AADHum and Nikki Stevens, Black Covid Care is a web-based experience that allows users to interactively explore sound and care in . In the project, BOOMs**t voices the sonic register that powers the Black Covid Care project's virtual exploration of Black community care in the ongoing covid-19 crisis.

In person on Saturday 12/10, come listen to a *live performance* of this digital collaboration, ahead of the website's launch later this weekend.

✨ Dr. Allie Martin is an AADHum Residency Program fellow, based out of Dartmouth College's Department of Music + the DHSE research cluster.

✨ Click our link in bio to learn more about Allie Martin's AADHum residency and the *Black Covid Care* project!

✨ "The Peace & Body Roll Duo BOOMs**t, Washington, DC based, consists of keyboardist/drummer/producer, Asha Santee (BOOM), and vocalist/songwriter Jennifer Patience Rowe (s**t). Together, they create a sound that ignites vulnerability, elevation and self-reflection." ⇢ Learn more about **t at https://buff.ly/3Y4pCOr

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