Wednesday, January 29, 10:00am\u20131:00pm
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Neema Githere<\/a> is a curator and guerrilla educator\/performance artist based in the #digitaldiaspora. She is part of the collective Data Healing<\/a> which seeks to illuminate + activate the intersections between nature, spirituality, and technology. Her new site Presentism2020 is a manifestation of her ongoing theories, projects and relationships: afropresentism, #healingimagery, radical love, #divestfrominstagram, and data healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It may feel as if the internet is up in the clouds, but in actual \nfact it’s at the bottom of the ocean, in the form of 880,000 kilometers \nof fiber-optic cables. These cables make up the essential infrastructure\n for sending all our emails, websites, photos, films and of course \nemoticons. Beneath the waves, our wireless life is very bound up with \nphysical wires\u2014it’s the virtual made physical. Among the submerged \ncities, drowned sailors and hidden histories, the ocean is home to a \ncomplex communications network. Here, the technologies controlled by the\n West expand along the old colonial routes, so in a way the cables are \nthe hardware of a new, electronic imperialism. Deep Down Tidal is a \nvideo essay in typical net.art style, weaving together cosmological, \nspiritual, political and technological narratives about water and its \nrole in communication, then and now. It’s about how this cable network \ncan facilitate the retention and expansion of power. It also reminds us \nthat water doesn\u2019t forget.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n This session will be a reflection-based workshop around the concept \nof data healing. Terms of interest: data trauma, data healing, cyber \ndoula. As students read the assigned text, I encourage them to reflect \nupon & attempt to self-define the above terms, which will frame our \nconversation in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n http:\/\/spring2020-seminar.designforthe.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday, January 29, 10:00am\u20131:00pmCSB 218C Neema Githere is a curator and guerrilla educator\/performance artist based in the #digitaldiaspora. She is part of the collective Data Healing which seeks to illuminate + activate the intersections between nature, spirituality, and technology. Her new site Presentism2020 is a manifestation of her ongoing theories, projects and relationships: afropresentism, #healingimagery, … Read moreRutgers Design Lecture Series: Neema Githere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7240,"featured_media":2238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4124,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/4124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n