In late April, I'll be presenting research that I've been collaborating on with Elizabeth Wissinger, on the possible futures of wearable technology, and the ways that tech-industry ideology intersects with and shapes the body, especially femme/gendered bodies. We'll be presenting in the morning on the first day of Theorizing the Web 2018, at the Museum of … Continue reading Theorizing the Web 2018
As I start my second year as a HASTAC Scholar, I'm really looking forward to connecting with the other scholars and hearing about the latest in Digital Humanities practice and research at HASTAC 2017. I'll be presenting on a panel about the challenges of producing multilingual DH projects and discussing my work on the No Place … Continue reading HASTAC 2017
The No Place Like Home project, for which I am the web project designer and developer, has been in the news a bunch lately, leading up to our launch of the second phase of the project on October 19. This year's event will highlight the results of a five-site survey of over 1,700 renters in … Continue reading No Place Like Home in the News
A lot of the "coincidences" Julie Beck imagines as meaningful in her recent Atlantic article about her quest to meet the "wildly different" other women with her name, just seem part of being a middle-class, college-educated white person in the US with a common moniker. As a "Kristin Miller," I have some basis for comparison.
On April 11–12, I'll be participating in Utopia After the Human, the fifth symposium organized by the research network Imaginaries of the Future: Historicizing the Present. I'll be presenting work from my ongoing research on the ways that ideas of the Anthropocene circulate in visual media, focusing on dystopian imagery and environmental documentary. The other papers cover … Continue reading Utopia After the Human
The 1973 show Women Choose Women was the first curated by and featuring exclusively women artists. The conversation between Mimi Poser, the Guggenheim's WYNC radio host, museum director Mario Amaya, and curator/gallerist Sylvia Sleigh is a particularly relevant time capsule for the current state of politics and art.
A new piece I wrote for the Guggenheim's Checklist blog on typography, layout, language, and storytelling in the design for their new exhibition Tales of Our Time.
Given the overt racism and misogyny, the sieg heils, the "are Jews people," anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the media, and most recently, the trumpet for flag-burning protestors to be stripped of their rights, I can't keep my mind away from July 19.
Science-Fiction L.A.: Words and World-Building in the City of Angels will take place on October 28–29 at USC's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. As the interplay between visions of the future and cities as we live in and build them is one of my very favorite subjects, I'm thrilled to have been invited to participate on a panel on LA's central role in visions of California and the future.
What does it mean to feel “at home” during an affordable-housing crisis? How does this crisis—leading to extreme rent burdens, precarious living situations, widespread displacement, and homelessness—impact people’s sense of belonging and community? And how are these personal impacts tied to broader social and ecological impacts—as families sacrifice basic needs to make rent, and as unaffordable housing drives sprawling, unsustainable urban development?
