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Week 08

March 6         Arduinos Lab continued (this week we will use the following light readings as inspiration points for a series of challenges that emphasize fabrication–how one reframes the LCD screen specifically—for different effect)

Debbie Chachra “Why I am not a Maker,” in The Atlantic (it is also Chapter 36 in Making Things and Drawing Boundaries)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/why-i-am-not-a-maker/384767/

Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities, ed Jentery Sayers. Minnesota Press, 2017.-updated:

Chapter 12 “The Making of a Digital Humanities Neo-Luddite” 116-127

Chapter 14 “Reifying the Maker as Humanist” 130-138

Chapter 18 “Doing History by Reverse Engineering Electronic Devices” 163-176

Chapter 27 Melissa Rogers, “Making Queer Feminisms Matter” 234-248

Chapter 28 “Movable Party” 249

Chapter 30 “Designs for Foraging: Fruit are Heavy, 2015-16” (257-270)

Chapter 32 “AIDS Quit Touch: Virtual Quilt Browser” (271-287)

Over spring break, for your project, work with sketchup using a text such as: “Goblin Market”,“The Street of Crocodiles,” “Love Songs to Joannes,” Mansfield Park, Middlemarch,10:04, The Great Gatsby, a sonnet, Nella Larsen Passing.