Our @skeuomorphpress.org tent & students are all set for live printing at Homecoming with our new Book Beetle press!
It’s the Beetle’s first real event
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Skeuomorph Press & BookLab
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An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
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@ryancordell.orgReposted by @skeuomorphpress.orgWe’re going to be talking about everything from psychedelic data to blank pages in our “Media Necromancy” series @skeuomorphpress.org this fall. Check out skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research... for more about both!
@drtlwagner.bsky.socialReposted by @skeuomorphpress.orgIf you haven’t had the fortune of seeing @jameshodges.net talk about his work it is always a good time and it is incredible to see him talk through the deeply social realities of engaging with technology in a historic way. Put simply, this talk is gonna rip!
@skeuomorphpress.orgOn Dec. 4th, Bonnie Mak & Julia Pollack will join to us for “If these pages were blank, it would have been intentional.”
No flyer for that one yet, but there’s more info at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research...
We are excited for talks that bridge information science & the humanities!
@skeuomorphpress.orgWe have great talks coming up in our “Media Necromancy” speaker series this fall!
On Oct. 30th @jameshodges.net will help us launch the Undead Media Lab with “Converting Consciousness into Digital Data: A Haunting History of Information Technologies” skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research...
@ryancordell.orgReposted by @skeuomorphpress.orgFor those wondering, Nadja was an executors of Michael Hart’s estate & has been working to place items with relevant groups—she’s coming back to school @ischoolui.bsky.social for her MSLIS & is working @skeuomorphpress.org this semester, so the timing was perfect—there will be a plaque of some kind!
@ryancordell.orgReposted by @skeuomorphpress.orgBut this one connects also to the long history of computing AND digital humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—Project Gutenberg, which gets used for so many classes in the humanities and in fields like text mining—& also for so much DH research—started on this machine in 1971
@ryancordell.orgReposted by @skeuomorphpress.orgI was already excited about a teletype, which perfectly bridges the press & the UML—it’s a typewriter with a carbon-copy roll of paper for printouts, originally designed to send messages by telegraph & then adapted into an early computer interface—it even connects to BBSes using a rotary-phone dial
@ryancordell.orgReposted by @skeuomorphpress.orgOk I can share—today MSLIS student Nadja Robot donated a teletype machine to @skeuomorphpress.org’s Undead Media Lab But this is not just any teletype—it’s the one Michael S. Hart used to digitize the Declaration of Independence & Alice in Wonderland—the 1st texts in what became Project Gutenberg
