roopa vasudevan
@rouxpz.bsky.social
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new media artist and researcher based between NYC and western massachusetts. faculty @ UMass Amherst art department. views my own. ✨ roopavasudevan.com
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Additionally featuring the Reclaim Project (led by @taramcpherson.bsky.social), The Intersectional Tech Lab, The Data Fluencies Theatre Project, The Night School for Data Fluencies, DATA/FFECT, and many more.

Huge thank you to all the artists, researchers, and galleries collaborating with me!
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Taking place in Boston (opens April 18 at Boston Cyberarts); Vancouver (opens May 29 at Or Gallery); and Lexington (opens June 6 at the Living Arts & Science Center).

Featuring Lai Yi Ohlsen, Lani Asunción, @jazsalyn.bsky.social, @oerum.org, @carolinesinders.bsky.social, and @rouxpz.bsky.social.
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Together, these artists and researchers offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that surrounds and drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.
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Each exhibition features work by six contemporary artists alongside experimental outputs from the broader Data Fluencies Project, an international research initiative based out of the Digital Democracies Institute (headed by @whkchun.bsky.social) at @simonfraseru.bsky.social.
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Encompassing three thematically connected shows on view across North America in mid-2025, the Data Fluencies exhibition series investigates art's potential for reimagining our often-narrow understandings of data and machine learning.
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So proud to finally announce a project I have been organizing for the past 3 years. An enormous and endless thank you to the artists, galleries, and researchers who have collaborated with me on this ambitious effort.

Save the date(s), and see you in Boston, Vancouver, and Lexington this spring. ✨
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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
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🔀 Passion for data, the Internet, and infrastructures a plus!

💌 Reach out to rvasudevan AT umass DOT edu with a portfolio/expression of interest (no DMs please!).

🗣️ Feel free to circulate widely among your networks, and reach out with any questions!
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Jumping right in here with a collab opportunity:

📣 Looking for a print and web designer to collaborate this spring on a catalog project for a series of three exhibitions I am organizing across the US and Canada. This may also extend to helping devise the graphic identity for these shows. (cont'd)
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I have done a decent job of that so far, but the constant pressure to move in other, faster ways has become much more noticeable to me as a result.
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A lasting consequence of the pandemic, for me, has been realizing that I want to build duration, discovery and reflection into my everyday life, not just when I have a moment to squeeze it in.
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I find myself getting overwhelmed much more easily these days than pre-March 2020. Things move too quickly for me now (including, sometimes, my own head).
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passed my proposal defense this morning - I'm officially ABD now. endlessly grateful to my committee: @johnljacksonjr, @bzelizer, @whkchun, @cshirky and jessa lingel (not on twitter). so excited about moving forward on this project!
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Thank you to everyone who has read drafts, offered feedback, and pushed me to make this piece stronger over the last year! I am super excited that this work is now out in the world.
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This article examines notions of reciprocity inherent in open source collaborative practices, and makes the case that corporations take advantage of trust and goodwill in these communities for their own financial gain.
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After years of hearing anecdotal and isolated incidents where big companies co-opt open source technologies or renege on collaborations only to release the product on their own, I analyzed this practice as indicative of a larger corporate strategy.
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Excited to share a timely article in the latest issue of Media-N:I discuss two of my political (and Trump-related!) art projects, and explore how the use of remix leads to a destabilizing of narratives surrounding political and cultural norms.

iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/media…
View of Proclamations and Paraphernalia: #Bellwether, Editor’s Notes, and the Art of Remixing the Political Document
iopn.library.illinois.edu
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Does anyone ever get to the point where they submit work NOT thinking it's complete trash? If so when does that happen? Asking for a friend #AcademicChatter #phdlife #phdstudent
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Been keeping quiet on social media throughout this whole ordeal, but on a personal level I am feeling like the choice to move to Philly 2+ years ago was fated somehow.
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both, simultaneously, all the time.

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