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Materiality of Language final: Laban-ese Gibberish (asemic dance notation pt. 2)

Gabriella Garcia

May 6, 20202 min read

Materiality of Language final: Laban-ese Gibberish (asemic dance notation pt. 2)

My final is fairly simple, especially in consideration of all the very detailed work delivered by my incredible classmates last week. I...

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Material of Language assign 4: Rhinestone Tears

Gabriella Garcia

Apr 8, 20201 min read

Material of Language assign 4: Rhinestone Tears

This week was really trying to grasp the notebook provided by Allison, with little success revising the code with my own input. I took a...

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Material of Language assignment 3: Asemic Dance Notation

Gabriella Garcia

Apr 1, 20201 min read

Material of Language assignment 3: Asemic Dance Notation

Git repo: https://github.com/stabriella/MOL2020/blob/master/Assign3_AsemicDanceNotation.ipynb I'm grateful for the extra week & tutorial...

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Materiality of Language assignment 2: Owning Lonely Onliness

Gabriella Garcia

Mar 13, 20202 min read

Materiality of Language assignment 2: Owning Lonely Onliness

Reference: Eartheater's Claustra This post is coming in way late (publish date is manipulated to chronologize my blog), as it's really...

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Feminist Technoscience response 1: A Stigma Problem through "Standpoint Epistemology" pt. 1

Gabriella Garcia

Mar 1, 20204 min read

Feminist Technoscience response 1: A Stigma Problem through "Standpoint Epistemology" pt. 1

"Standpoint theories argue for 'starting off thought' from the lives of marginalized peoples, that beginning in those determinate,...

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Material of Language assignment 1: deconstructing a thesis

Gabriella Garcia

Feb 12, 20203 min read

Material of Language assignment 1: deconstructing a thesis

My thesis has quite a bit to do with language, and also quite a bit to do with codified binaries in society—about what or who is/not...

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Postnatural Design: Arts of Noticing at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Gabriella Garcia

Nov 30, 20194 min read

Postnatural Design: Arts of Noticing at Brooklyn Bridge Park

At the beginning of the semester we were assigned to choose a local ecosystem for regular observation. I haven't posted regular updates...

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Computing in Context week 3-4: Hero Worship

Gabriella Garcia

Nov 26, 20194 min read

Computing in Context week 3-4: Hero Worship

My first reaction to Carlyle's Great Man Theory was that I couldn't help but wonder if it was satire. With phrases of extraordinary...

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Live Web final project proposal: Heart to Heart

Gabriella Garcia

Nov 13, 20193 min read

Live Web final project proposal: Heart to Heart

My midterm project was inspired by the idea of sharing whispered "sweet little nothings" and those memories that seem to manifest in...

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Gabriella Garcia

Nov 12, 20195 min read

Computing in Context week 2: Sticky Web

I have no trouble critiquing Zuckerberg's assertion that "there is huge a need... to get everyone in the world connected," and that "the...

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Computing in Context week 1: Hippie's Internet

Gabriella Garcia

Nov 4, 20192 min read

Computing in Context week 1: Hippie's Internet

There was a time in my life when Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace would have excited me; my final rationale defense...

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Gabriella Garcia

Nov 2, 20192 min read

Live Web weeks 4-5: Sharing Poetry

After struggling the first few weeks of class, I sort of flipped the table over on the chatroom-focused iterative process and basically...

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Gabriella Garcia

Nov 2, 20194 min read

Live Web weeks 2-3: Socket to me

The beginning few weeks of this class were extraordinarily challenging, and I was fairly unmotivated to document my homework as I really...

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Postnatural Design project 3: Unconventional Timepiece

Gabriella Garcia

Oct 26, 20194 min read

Postnatural Design project 3: Unconventional Timepiece

Growing up oppositionally defiant toward authority, I've intuited clocks and watches as tools of the oppressor. I suppose it's fairly...

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Gabriella Garcia

Oct 20, 20193 min read

Liv Web midterm: Asymmetrical Poetry

I've been once again inspired by the somewhat isolating experience of connecting via screen, which has somehow distanced us while...

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Postnatural Design project 2: Measuring Device

Gabriella Garcia

Oct 11, 20194 min read

Postnatural Design project 2: Measuring Device

In my current status of data overload (data overlord perhaps) I was very primed to question the current structure of “ ‘what’ ‘counts’ .”...

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Gabriella Garcia

Sep 11, 20194 min read

Live Web week 1: Herd Mentality

I'm starting the semester by noting that I'm absolutely terrified by the challenges I face in this second and final year at ITP. This...

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Gabriella Garcia

May 10, 20195 min read

RWET final: ApoliPology

The public apology is a complex phenomenon: though regularly demanded, it is rarely believed. Used as a political tool the public apology...

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Gabriella Garcia

Apr 29, 20195 min read

QuantHumanists update 2: life decisions

Mapping this project out started around spring break, with a lot of conversation and critique along the way. When I first brought it to...

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Soft Robotics week 5: silicone prototyping and daydreaming spaces

Gabriella Garcia

Apr 29, 20193 min read

Soft Robotics week 5: silicone prototyping and daydreaming spaces

Things are truly gearing up toward finals, and this week I was afforded the space to use my soft robotics time to both play with relevant...

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