Panelist for #p5AccessDay ‘Access & Community Building’: Zainab Aliyu
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Join us on May 21, 1:00-2:00 pm PST via Zoom to learn more!
Zainab "Zai" Aliyu is an artist and cultural worker whose work is about the material effect of the "immaterial."
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Panelist for #p5AccessDay ‘Access & Community Building’: @closeisnthome
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May 21, 1:00-2:00 pm PST via Zoom
@closeisnthome (Co-founders Samantha Vassor & Grace Kwon) is a multidisciplinary collective & 3D resource platform by and for BIPOC identities
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ALT Square Infographic with a tan background and soft glows of red and yellows. In the center is round bold text, “Projects:” with a rectangular photo underneath: The image is divided into four sections. The background is a dark green. Different 3D modeled objects are dramatically lit. In the top left, there is an aerial view of an hotpot meal set up including a metal pot with two different soups, raw meat, leafy greens, mushrooms, dried noodles, lotus root, tofu, and meatballs. In the top right corner, there is a brown soda bottle with orange and yellow labels that reads 'COURONNE: FRUIT CHAMPAGNE'. In the bottom left, there is a brown wooden barrel that is converted to a drum like musical. instrument at the top.In the bottom right corner, there is a wooden mancala board that appears as a long cylindrical board with 16 spherical pits. Each pit contains a handful of white puka shells. The infographic has scattered graphics of stars and circles.
TTZ is organized by Rachel Simanjuntak (she/he/they), Tristan Espinoza (he/they), Tyler Yin (he/they) and Jules Kris (they/them). We organize as guests in Tovaangar (so-called Los Angeles). Together we feel for the nuances of digital tech's presence in our worlds.
Panelist for #p5AccessDay ‘Access & Community Building’: @tinytechzines
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Join us on May 21, 1-2 pm PST via Zoom!
@tinytechzines is a tech zine fair & collective, with emphasis on care & centers relationships between marginalized communities + tech
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Dorothy has an interest in feminist media histories, critical medical anthropology, computational media, technology, race, and ethics. She is the co-founder of REFRESH, a politically-engaged art and curatorial collective & Ph.D. candidate in @FilmDigMedUCSC.
Moderator for #p5AccessDay ‘Access & Community Building’: @deedottiedot
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Join us on May 21, 1:00-2:00 pm PST via Zoom to learn more!
Dorothy is a Filipino American writer, artist, educator & Executive Director for @ProcessingOrg.
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They currently serve as Organizer in the disability arts collective Kinetic Light. They help steward the Critical Design Lab & the REMOTE ACCESS party collective. They received their Ph.D. from the @Penn in 2018 and were Visiting Assistant Professor of @mccNYU until 2021.
Panelist for #p5AccessDay ‘Disability Arts’: @kgotkin
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Join us on May 21, 11:30am-12:30pm PST via Zoom!
Kevin is an access ecologist. They have been organizing in the disability arts worlds of Lenapehoking, so-called New York City, since 2016
ALT Square Infographic with a tan background and soft glows of blue and yellows. In round bold text is the panelist name “Kevin Gotkin” in the center with thinner text under reading “Disability Arts.” Above the text is a photo of Kevin Gotkin:Kevin is in two places at once. They are on their couch, buoyed by pillows, looking past the camera the way presidents often do in portraits. They are a scruffy white person with short brown hair, asymmetrical gold hoop earrings, and a gold chain necklace. On a shelf behind their couch at home in Lenapehoking, there are plants. But they are at home only on the screen of a laptop that is elsewhere, in London, on the kitchen counter of the photographer, Louise Hickman, who is a very small square in the top right of the Zoom window where she is remotely joined to Kevin for this portrait.The infographic has scattered graphics of circles and stars with the event title “p5.js Access Day 2022” in the top left corner. The bottom of the infographic includes “M
ALT Square Infographic with a tan background and soft glows of blue and yellow. In the center is round bold text, “Projects:” with a rectangular photo underneath: it’s the header of Kevin’s newsletter, crip news. the lines the stretch out from a single point on the horizon and the lines shooting off are pink. There’s text at the vanishing point: meet you right here. The infographic has scattered graphics of stars and circles.
Kemi’s work centers around creative technology management, digital accessibility, as well as propagating African makers and their work. She was a Teaching Fellow at @processingorg, researching digital accessibility and building a syllabus on her website a11ysyllabus.site.
Panelist for #p5AccessDay ‘Disability Arts’: Kemi Sijuwade-Ukadike
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Join us on May 21, 11:30am-12:30pm PST via Zoom to learn more!
Kemi is interested in creating tools and content for marginalized communities.
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Panelist for #p5AccessDay ‘Disability Arts’: Natalee Decker
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Join us on May 21, 11:30am-12:30pm PST via Zoom to learn more!
Natalee is a Chicago born Los Angeles based artist. In June 2022 they will graduate from the @UCLA_DMA & @DisStdUCLA.
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Xiaowei works across new media and social practice at the intersection of environmental justice and data driven technologies. They are the author of the book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech In China's Countryside, & one of the lead facilitators of Logic School.
Moderator for #p5AccessDay ‘Disability Arts’: @xrw
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Join us on May 21, 11:30am-12:30pm PT via Zoom
Xiaowei is a new media artist, writer, coder and organizer who centers on community driven tech & the importance of care for a more just future.
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Outside of tech Jes is an advocate for kids & families affected by autism, with the goal to create the most inclusive environment for all learners in the classroom. She has a passion for inclusive technology & using technology to challenge the bias & stigma surrounding disability
Panelist for #p5AccessDay ‘Critical Web Accessibility’: @techandautism
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Join us on May 21, 10:15-11:15am PT via Zoom to learn more!
Jes has been in the tech industry for nearly 20 years, always striving to build impactful software and teams.
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@luismn0_0 current research focuses on youth’s computational empowerment and studies novice programmer experiences. Since 2017, Luis has been contributing to the p5.js open source project, working on accessibility and the friendly error system.
Panelist for #p5AccessDay ‘Critical Web Accessibility’: @luismn0_0
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Join us on May 21, 10:15-11:15am PT via Zoom to learn more!
Luis is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences and Technologies program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Cassie’s work centers around creating accessible and inclusive tools for making art. They currently work at the Processing Foundation as the creator and project lead of the p5.js Web Editor, an open-source in-browser code editor for creative coding in p5.js.