Expanding our references for classes in New Media Art and Technology
Hi! Have suggestions? Feel free to fork the source and send a pull request, post an issue, tweet at me, or email via me (details on my website). This resource should not be considered definitive nor authoritative but instead a starting point and limited in-progress document! Thanks
UPDATE! Please note: There has been criticism of academia and non-BIPOC for sloppy attempts to ‘decolonize’ a syllabus or a program without any real structural changes. I want to acknowledge this criticism and note some alternative suggested terms.
- Diversify your syllabus and curriculum
- Digress from the cannon
- Decentre knowledge and knowledge production
- Devalue hierarchies
- Disinvest from citational power structures
- Diminish some voices and opinions in meetings, while magnifying others
This section contains resources from Daniel Shiffman
Working on a reading list for curriculum related to how technology perpetuates racism.
- Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way. by Charlton McIlwain
- African American Inequality in the United States by Janice H. Hammond, A. Kamau Massey and Mayra G. Garza
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
- Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain
- Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
- A brief history of how racism manifests itself in design and how we can learn from it by Amrutha Pal
- Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children
- Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks., by Julia Angwin, by Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica
- WYFY (WITH YOU FOR YOU) - video by BUFU, at Eyeo2019
- MOTHER CYBORG IS HERE TO ESCORT YOU INTO THE FUTURE WITH LOVE. - video from Eyeo2019
- Residual Black Data - video by Ron Morrison, Eyeo2019
- AI, Small Data and Oral Histories - video by Stephanie Dinkins at Eyeo2019
Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey, by Kavita Philip, Lilly Irani and Paul Dourish
- requires free registration with JSTOR
Gender HCI, Feminist HCI, Post-Colonial Computing, Anti-Oppressive Design, and Design Justice
Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development - PDF, by Lilly Irani, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita Philip and Rebecca E. Grinter
Gender-Inclusive HCI Research and Design
Are you sure your software is gender-neutral? Feminist Data, Feminist Futures - video by Catherine D'ignazio at Eyeo2019
The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online, edited by Safiya Umoja Noble and Brendesha M. Tynes
Safe Spaces and Safe Places: Unpacking Technology-Mediated Experiences of Safety and Harm with Transgender People - PDF, by Morgan Scheuerman, Stacy Branham, Foad Hamidi
The Urgency of Intersectionality - video, by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- list of resources and videos
Intersectionalities 101: A Reading List, by Blackfeminisms
What is Design Justice? - video by Sasha Costanza-Clark at Eyeo2019
Male/Female/Othered: Implementing Gender-Inclusiveness in User Data Collection
Imagining Radical Queer Futures: video, by Morgen Bromell at AlterConf San Francisco 2016
The main list focuses on readings related to the internet, computation, and algorithms. Here are some other resources for related readings outside of that scope.
- 15+ Books by Black Scholars the Tech Industry Needs to Read Now by Safiya Umoja Noble and Dr. Sarah T. Roberts
To be continued...
- this list begun by UCLA Game Lab
Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Justice, Edited by Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard
Queer Game Studies, edited by Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw
Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture, by Adrienne Shaw
The Queer Games Avant Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games, by Bonnie Ruberg
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form, by Anna Anthropy
From Barbie to Mortal Combat: Gender and Computer Games, edited by Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins
- all chapters available as downloadable PDFs
The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Videogame Culture, edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson
Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
- downloadable articles
Decolonising the Games Curriculum: Interventions in an Introductory Game Design Course
قلب programming language by Ramsey Nasser
Mukurtu CMS - An innovative set of Traditional Knowledge Labels that work with traditional copyright and Creative Commons licenses to better serve Indigenous needs
Where Did Our Utopia About the Net Go? - video by Shireen Mitchell for INBOUND Bold Talks
*This is not a Comprehensive list, only inspiration for further research for academics seeking to increase representation in New Media Curricula. The list is based on a spreadsheet, the Mini Atlas of Black New Media Arts & Scholarship. That list is specifically focused on Black, defined as African-American or of African descent. which is initially based on a list by Anandkumar, A., Moline, A., Guiton, P. S. (2020) , Atlas of Black Scholarship for Inclusive and Racially Diverse STEM Curricula – Volume I. QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/CEM2-HH58. I've added to their list but I'd consider this section to still be quite limited at this time. This section is the most in flux, should not be considered a definitive list of the most important artists, and should be reorganized! Many of these artists fit among many categories.
- Auriea Harvey, 1/2 of production studio Tale of Tales - AR, 3d, Games, World Building, Storytelling - see Sunset and The Graveyard, was one of the earliest net artists - see skinonskinonskin
- Jacolby Satterwhite - Video Art Installation, Video Art, Animation, World Building, Storytelling
- Huntrezz - Late at Tate Stream 1: Artist Talk
- Mimi Ọnụọha - Data and Surveillance - link to The Library of Missing Data Sets
- Jasmine McNealy - Ecological Data, Data Relations, Data Governance - link
- Ruha Benjamin - Technosculture, Technoscience, Critical Code, Critical Race Studies, Critical Algorithimic Studies
- W.E.B Dubois 1900s - Original Inventor of Infographic and Data Visualization techniques, Sociologist - article
- Joy Buolamwini - Founder of Algorithmic Justice League
- Fox Harrel - Artifical Intelligence, Video Games, Comparative Media, StoryTelling Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory
- Stephanie Dinkins - Robotics, Humanoids, Data Soverignty, Performace, Video Art
- Laneya Billingsley - glossy, Video Art, 3D Animation
- LaJuné McMillian - Black Movement Project - "New Media Artist, Maker, and Creative Technologist"
- Auriea Harvey, 1/2 of Tale of Tales studio - sculpture, simulations, videogames, net archaeology
- Chrisina Phazero Curley - game artist, designer
- A.M. Darke - Open Source Afro Hair Library, In Passing, Objectif
- Jacolby Satterwhite - Video Art Installation, Video Art, Animation, World Building, Storytelling
- Derrick Adams Performance Art, Video Art, Painting - link
- Coco Fusco - link
- Martine Syms - "video and performance to examine representations of blackness" - e.g. EverythingIveEverWantedToKnow
- Camae Ayewa / Moor Mother - Multimedia, Music, Video Performance Lectures
- Rasheedah Phillips - Black Quantum Futurism, Science Fiction - link
- shawné michaelain holloway - sound, video, performance - "shapes the rhetorics of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power."
- Mendi + Keith Obadike - Black Net.Art Actions, 2001 - 2003
- William pope.L - The Black Factory - Web, Performance, Installation, Intervention, 2001 - 2008
- Electronic Disturbance Theater - FloodNet
- netart latino database, 1999 - 2004
- Jayson Musson - Art Thoughtz, 2010 - 2012
- Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde - The Rift: An Afronaut's Journey, Ayapo Repository, with Salome Asega
- Salome Asega
- Fred Eversley - 1960s-current - parabolic sculpture, light motion, NASA scientist - link
These resources are collected from a number of lists and sources online. They are run the gamut from articles and websites to books and syllabi. Pull requests welcome, or start an issue to leave suggestion.
Resources in this section collected from UCLA Conditional Arts
- Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List
- Black Anarchism: A Reader
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
- Understanding racism and inequality in America Washington Post
- We Need an Academic New Deal The Nation
- How White Supremacy turned Asian and Black Communities Against Each Other Next Shark
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
- 13th | by Ava DuVernay (1:40:02)
- Difficult Knowledge, Trauma Informed Pedagogy and Safe-ish Spaces (UC Berkeley)
- Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma (Teaching Tolerance)
- Zinn Education Project Teaching Materials (Zinn Education Project)