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Incredibly excited and honored to be one of the Scholar-Artist Residents for the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at University of Maryland (UMD)! To learn more about the digital project I will be working on throughout this residency period, titled {unhurried} [witness], click here. To learn more about all of the resident scholars, click here. To learn more about the AADHum program, click here. {unhurried} [witness] will explore Black American play as a form of healing and collective cultural witness through interactive text and audiovisual elements. Can’t wait to get started! 

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#repost @jmjafrx Third cohort. AadHum Scholars 2019-2020. Honored to be part of this ridiculously smart cohort. Can't wait to incubate the next book/digital projects with them all. #DarkCodex #BlackDH https://ift.tt/38JMfy7 Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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2019-2020 AADHum Scholars

Honored to be part of this ridiculously smart cohort. Can’t wait to incubate the next book/digital projects with you all. #DarkCodex, #electricmaroonage #xroadspraxis

AADHum Welcomes Third Cohort of Black Digital Humanities Scholars

The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative at the University of Maryland is proud to announce the 2019–2020 cohort of AADHum scholars. Started in 2017, this community of practice centers Black life and theory in their extensive engagement with digital tools. Most importantly, this program offers AADHum scholars space and support to incubate their own Black Digital Humanities (DH) work. This marks the third and most competitive year of AADHum’s premier program.

AADHum is delighted to welcome a cohort that is actively working to make significant interventions in Black DH through American Studies, History, English, Geography and Sociology. The cohort is furthered enriched by a broad range of career stages and trajectories, as well as institutional affiliations among the scholars.

The AADHum Scholars program is generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as by the College of Arts & Humanities and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland….

Johnson’s second book project, Dark Codex: History, Blackness and the Digital��explores how images and texts created in difficult pasts resonate across digital and social media. In Dark Codex, she explores the ways research, teaching, and theories generated from the study of Atlantic African diaspora history and les damnes de terre—the dispossessed, the fugitives, queer folk, immigrants and femmes of color—function as the unforeseen and oft-ignored heart of the field of Digital Humanities. Johnson’s AADHum project involves the creation of what she calls “speculative censuses,” or datasets that surface the uncounted and unaccounted for in eighteenth-century Louisiana archives of slavery as a route into Black fugitivity beyond dispossession.

Click here: https://aadhum.umd.edu/scholars/2019-2020/?fbclid=IwAR3rjbGjLPFs3Ew0W569JxRIRobLNI7BJ8QOTG0iE12KF-nOwy-cJ2ypDls

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#http://dh.jmjafrx.com/2019/12/17/2019-2020-aadhum-scholars/; DH Research #Atlantic New Orleans #Bla

[sssseren]

So excited to announce the launch of my project [unhurried] {witness}!

A curation of digital memories, this piece was created under my mentor, Marisa Parham, during the 2022-2023 Scholar-Artist Residency Program of the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland (UMD).

[unhurried] {witness} was conceived during lockdown to explore Black play as a form of healing and collective witness of Black American culture, and was envisioned as MySpace meets Tumblr meets your Grandma’s house; ASMR for the soul; community memory exercise; interfacing intimacy; an archive of play; and, ultimately, an ephemeral object of cultural witness. 

✨slow play as ritual/alchemization of emotions + analog experiences in a digital space✨

More inspirations included:

-web 1.0 

-Covid play 

-inside/outside 

-adulthood/childhood 

-play/work 

To experience and explore the project, click here: https://unhurried-witness.aadhum.org.

Designed to be interactive, a series of questions on your memories of the digital experience can be found here and here. All answers will be recorded anonymously and displayed in the guestbook here.

Statement from the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative at University of Maryland on the project:

Welcome [unhurried] {witness}!

Seren Sensei’s #BlackDH project creates a “a digital exploration and a visual representation of analog games such as card games, dice, dominoes, paper crafts, and rhyming hand games/hand motions, as healing cultural process among Black Americans.”

✨ You can learn more about [unhurried] {witness} at https://aadhum-news.umd.edu/unhurried-witness/

✨ You can visit the site at https://unhurried-witness.aadhum.org

#black american #culture #university of maryland #African American History #digital humanities #my work #digital #analog #memories

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At AADHum, we’ve been thinking a lot about what we’ve learned over the past year or so, running both a large fellowship and developing more than a few dozen #BlackDH events and projects during the panny. In our conversations re what’s next, we found ourselves compulsively avoiding framing our ideas as “we’ve gained insight into x” while adjusting to these times. But at the same time, things have indeed changed and it is our job to know that, as well as we can. As well as we can: In balance against our hesitation to lemonade the pandemic, this year we’re doubling down on developing programs and activities that respond to / learn from the complexities of scheduling, hybrid-work, and distant collaboration that characterized last year. Last year we were all moved by the breadth, depth, and sincerity of audience participation at our events, generating so much community-feeling, sparking so much new #BlackDH thinking, inspired by the intellectual energy of the @aadhum.umd scholars and their interlocutors. So we’ve been thinking about the smart + generous generativity of those gatherings—the relative success of our virtual event formats, & how to bring the insights of those experiences over to how we plan new programs, workshops, and project ideation/creation structures. How do we honor and support artists & scholars in relation to digital work? In other places I and others have argued for the numerous ways DH properly shares roots with and must always learn from the hard lessons survived and negotiated by ethnic and women and gender studies. Yes. But how do we move from critical DH insights around labor, sustainability, community-build, and project accountability (for instance), to new or improved configurations for funding, developing and supporting digital scholarship? So that is the nut we’ve been trying to crack in our moment of pause and evaluation. There are a lot of good models out there, and we have thus been thinking about how to grow our work, given what we continually learn from our own and others’ experiences. Now we must begin! . #tweetphoto (at University of Maryland, College Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcnKCisu8GP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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