Hey!
It was great meeting you last week! Thanks for the tour, and coffee, it was great seeing the archive and talking for a while! I appreciated getting to hear about your goings on (especially your thoughts on teaching!) and I love the chai from those machines. I hope I can come and spend some more time with the archive someday!
Here's a copy of [the] talk [an overview of my portfolio and research].
It featured a couple videos, if you're curious:
Some semester programming announcements for GSAPP:
I wanted to supplement a bit below to explain what was being said off-screen. My presentations of late have been very basic and mostly textless, so:
There are a couple of farms pictured. I worked on a CSA (supplying nice restaurants and subscribers and run by someone who was more leaning in a techno-libertarian direction [I didn't mention this but I think it's interesting to note come to think of it now]) in the first year [studying at the Werkplaats Typografie 2022–2024] and a food forest/resource bank (located next to the power lines with sheep under them pictured in the PDF) (run by techno-luddite hippies who had me to build them a LAN with refurbished computers because they filled all of their internal storage with flat earth memes) in the second. That's not to say both weren't wonderful people with great intentions and rather effective goings-on in the pursuit of building resiliency of sorts in their communities.
Basically the whole presentation is trying to piece agriculture/food systems and ecology into a broader perspective on social perceptions on land, sense of place, as a response to the negative effects of digitalization and neoliberalism/globalism. Hence the heads typing into heads and tree robots hehe. And the big point was that I'm packaging all of that in solarpunk eco-sci-fi design and art that's kind of bewildering and grounded in the pain of right now to reflect, instead of trying to devise utopian stuff. With that intention some of the drawings and videos deal with confronting toxic masculinity, meritocracy and bad working culture, something that I felt had contributed to the loneliness of freelancing in NYC that I touch on in the early slides. Both of those tracks, the meritocracy stuff and the ecological misconception stuff, in my mind can spin out of control and unite into things like political polarity or paranoia, which fuel a lot of the bewilderment content.