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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy

@amplify285.bsky.social
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Here we go! @rudyfraser.com is describing matters of representing/supporting Black communities on social media. Turns to technical infrastructure: open source, user support, & other considerations. Thinking about systems that are sustainable, and that can operate well into the future.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
From scholars working on independent projects to gatherings of #BlackDH centers and initiatives, it's been a great week at the Africana Digital Humanities @ HBCU's Convening! Keynote convo'ing w/ Kenton Rambsy & the GOAT Maryemma Graham; amazing panels for days + basking in Colored Conventions-isms
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Now take quantum sims & make them accessible— NLP that anyone can play with. Two turntables & a pocket of qubits? Also, thinking @ curation, a lá @lillianyvonne.bsky.social. Not merely machine generation, but working in relationship w/ computation to *see*, or maybe feel, differently. Entangling.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Our first example follows mimicking Markov chains and blackout poetry refracted thru quantum processing. Thinking about entanglement, the introduction of dynamism — the power of context-driven generation — to remix hip-hop, meaning music and poetry.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Apparently I am live-skying my heart. Now we are bathed in Patricia Hill Collins’ deep intelligence, pointing us toward thinking @ AI & social relations. It feels good to be brought to attention by a person of such immense capacity to focus us in witness of her critical gaze.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Today? Advising projs, teaching my Black Digitalities grad course, & sitting @ this talk by @safiyanoble.bsky.social (How’s that for burying the lede?🌟) Moving constantly btw headlines & actually getting my job done. It’s a devilish both/and. Talks like this remind us why we must also do what we do
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In this conversation with @umd-arhu.bsky.social, Jayson Porter, Hackett reminds us of Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean philosopher’s idea of opacity— the right to not always taking responsibility for translating cultural knowledge. Much at stake in thinking about where we locate archival material.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I should note that this Graphic History of Hip-Hop talk features live sketching by Tim Fielder! Illustrated notes, audience portraits. I am suspended between wholesomeness and innovation. Let us stay here forever in these times 😍
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Near and dear: @walterdgreason.bsky.social talking about his transition from working as a software engineer/game dev to PhD to using his critical media & computational skills to dev texts like the Wakanda Syllabus and this graphic history, as well as rocking #blackdigitalhumanities in general
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Today at Maryland-College Park? Walter Greason and Tim Fielder talking about The Graphic History of Hip-Hop!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Afrotechtopia’s Ari Melenciano & Jeremy Kamal w/ audience talkback, thinking about introspective practice, multimedia, the work of the artist in imagining human/tech futures, the work of revelation and encoding in Black Metal
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We are getting our future hopes and dinner on!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What better way to slink back onto the socials than to say how happy @aadhum-umd.bsky.social is to host members of the Afrotechtopia @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville! We are joining Ari Melenciano and Jeremy Kamal in celebrating Black Metal, an art book based in Black speculative design!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ask me about listening to Dana Williams talk about the uses of data in examining Toni Morrison’s editorial legacy, because… swoon. Here at #NMAAHC for the Black Literary Network/Future of #BlackDH gathering.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This Wed. @ 12p — Join UMD English on the Zooms for an authors' conversation about OUTPUT ⇢ "An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT." english.umd.edu/events/book-...
Cover for the book, OUTPUT, which features a collage of computer geared text and images, masked behind the title.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
So pleased to share good good news... ✨ Comments (thoughts? feelings?) ⇢ www.instagram.com/p/C0QRIVFOrsi/
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
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AADHum offers up to $250 to support digital and/or experimental projects grounded in humanities-based approaches to the study or expression of Black life.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Thank you 🥰. I just saw your grocery cat! Here is a cat catting on a cat backdrop. A cat-drop?
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