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J.R. Carpenter Craft Talk on a Handmade Web—January 17, 2025 @12PM ET

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We will send out the Zoom link for the event and all relevant materials to the email addresses provided below. I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as a forms of resistance. In this craft talk, J.R. Carpenter will share a philosophy and practice of handmaking in digital spaces, that we hope can inform our own creative practices. They write: "In today's highly commercialised web of multinational corporations, proprietary applications, read-only devices, search algorithms, Content Management Systems, WYSIWYG editors, and digital publishers it becomes an increasingly radical act to hand-code and self-publish experimental web art and writing projects. The more proprietary, predatory, and puerile a place the web becomes, the more committed I am to using it in poetic and intransigent ways." At the beginning of a new year, may we all take time to make and to slow down. Header detail from Fishes & Flying Things J. R. Carpenter 1995 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This event is part of If, Then: Technology and Poetics, a collaborative, public, and interdisciplinary virtual working group and workshop series promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation. Check out our website here and get in touch with Carly Schnitzler (cschnit1@jh.edu) or Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (lyb@umd.edu) with any questions or suggestions.

We will send out the Zoom link for the event and all relevant materials to the email addresses provided below. I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as a forms of resistance. In this craft talk, J.R. Carpenter will share a philosophy and practice of handmaking in digital spaces, that we hope can inform our own creative practices. They write: "In today's highly commercialised web of multinational corporations, proprietary applications, read-only devices, search algorithms, Content Management Systems, WYSIWYG editors, and digital publishers it becomes an…

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