A video spotlighting the range and utility of the long-running Crying Jordan meme, which re-immortalizes one of the 20th century's most successful athletes into an avatar of failure; an Everyman for disappointment, angst, and sorrow; a tool for rapid responses to live events; and a demonstration of the increased power of (anonymous, decentralized) fan culture.| Astria Suparak
"The sports film genre—as it has come to be defined through its codes, scholarship, production and screening contexts, and broadcast platforms—is dominated by two typologies: fictive sports films, which often reinforce dominant attitudes and social and cultural stereotypes while distorting or whitewashing history for storytelling purposes; and commercial documentaries, which typically focus on exceptional players, coaches, or teams."| Astria Suparak
“A sly, sun-soaked detour into cat video territory, refracted through postcolonial critique and pop collage. This winking essay film uses the feline internet genre to unpack tropical aesthetics, exoticism, and identity politics, purring with layered audio, meme logic, and cultural dissection. As playful as it is pointed.”—Chicago Underground Film Festival| Astria Suparak
What may be broadly viewed as benign paintings from dusty art history books point to still-reverberating and repeating histories of colonialism, trade, and sources of European and American wealth through extraction.| Astria Suparak
Suparak is the guest curator for the 2024 Film Series, crafting programs around key ideas present in both the museum collection and her own practice, including science fiction and fantasy, architec…| Astria Suparak
Hey, just wanted to mention I’m basically doing okay. Working as a contractor for the ADCRR, the organization that runs Arizona’s prison system. That’s a little weird. I’m not writing code. I mean—I am writing code, but not for work. Work is commissary stuff: process inmate orders, make sure they get those orders. I finally get to do customer service again. The customers are nice, and so are the coworkers. Hobby code is mostly cycling through Ruby, Lisp-like languages, and Odin. I l...| HomeonRandom Geekery
an update about what I've been up to in August 2025, from things I wrote, to what I'm reading and new projects and goals| Elena Rossini
An update about what I have been up in June and July 2025: from the release of my Fediverse promo video in English, French, Italian and Czech, to speaking at #PubConf2025 in Amsterdam, and figuring out other ways to promote the Fediverse| Elena Rossini
What I've been up to this month? Work on a promotional film for the fediverse... and preparations to speak at a FOSS conference in Lyon| Elena Rossini
A post detailing the things I'm focusing on right now (February 2025)| Elena Rossini
The family grows| Derek Kedziora
“I spoke to Suparak about the counter-narratives from artists she’s found through her curation work, the Western fascination for utopian narratives, and how sports and the arts are not mutual…| Astria Suparak
Zeit has great documentation, but it took me a while to understand the difference between environment variables (secrets) on the serverless side vs how to get env vars exposed and available to the React code which runs client side, in the browser…| Leigh Halliday's RSS Feed
“A collage of Caucasian actors in roles as emotionally complex robots, AIs and cyborgs. [The installation] questions who is granted the privilege of humanity and emotional depth in these tech…| Astria Suparak
Whomp, there it is, 2018, or “awesome-nice” as the number 18 in Slovenian sounds like (osemnajst). With the new year and my adorned heart that I wear on the windowsill comes the end on …| The Mexi Movie II. (closed)
Not only doors today, also windows and walls, but freshly baked. LJ woman reports. Apart from the last door, which you saw in my previous post yet, all of these were taken yesterday after my dentis…| The Mexi Movie II. (closed)
Day one of days won over here. Only took eight photos today and posting five of them already. I like this percentage. I wonder if it will hold. Photo: © signature mmm| The Mexi Movie II. (closed)
A quick post to mark the date when I submitted my first anything to anything. To begin, begin. — William Wordsworth It has been on my mind for a while, to research all the millions of competi…| The Mexi Movie II. (closed)
“This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.”| Astria Suparak
“This issue of V ART records Thai-American artist Astria Suparak’s long-term research project ‘Asian futures, without Asians.’ She uses precise language like a scalpel cutting thr…| Astria Suparak
“Suparak’s media archaeology disrupts these racialized imaginaries of AI and identifies openings for building future imaginaries otherwise.”| Astria Suparak
An amalgamated skyline of Asian futures imagined by white filmmakers. Sourced from sci-fi movies and television shows that depict a vice-ridden, dangerous world overtly marked with elements of East…| Astria Suparak
This live cinema work, presented as a taxonomy of tropes, is illustrated with images and clips from futuristic movies and television shows. Accompanied by a live musical soundtrack, Suparak deliver…| Astria Suparak
A set of backdrops containing concepts central to present-day sci-fi and fantasy, highlighting a sliver of the brilliance and beauty of Asian imagination and artistry across six centuries.| Astria Suparak
“Suparak and the writer and artist Dorothy R. Santos discuss Suparak’s ongoing scholarship, which, in addition to researching historical Asian artifacts that presage contemporary concepts of …| Astria Suparak
A short video essay that takes one of the world-building tics of white science fiction — gratuitous signage in Asian languages — to consider its utopian potential and dystopian applications.| Astria Suparak
A whole year of notes from the, um, "Updates" page on my website, where I haphazardly write as I feel inspired to do so. This update includes notes about language learning, research updates, and think-alouds as I figure out academia.| Lara L. Schenck
