Jessica Barness
@jbarness.bsky.social
Design Scholar / Scholarly Designer ✨
"We’re all out here trying to make something, fix something, figure it out, and sometimes the best support we can offer each other is simply showing up to do our work in the presence of others doing theirs."
#designwriting #writingfellowship
#designwriting #writingfellowship
Fellowing
Parallel work becomes unexpected community
jessicabarness.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"We’re all out here trying to make something, fix something, figure it out, and sometimes the best support we can offer each other is simply showing up to do our work in the presence of others doing theirs."
#designwriting #writingfellowship
#designwriting #writingfellowship
Though my work, Letters to X, has been on the ELO site for some time, today I was happy to see a new entry for the project in the Electronic Literature Directory (thank you, Elayna!)
Letters to X | Electronic Literature Directory
directory.eliterature.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Though my work, Letters to X, has been on the ELO site for some time, today I was happy to see a new entry for the project in the Electronic Literature Directory (thank you, Elayna!)
Reposted by Jessica Barness
The Wayback Machine is a vital resource for preserving the cultural record, ensuring history remains accessible to all.
Read more in the recent NPR profile ➡️ www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
#SaveTheWeb #DigitalPreservation #MemoryHole #WaybackMachine
Read more in the recent NPR profile ➡️ www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
#SaveTheWeb #DigitalPreservation #MemoryHole #WaybackMachine
March 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Wayback Machine is a vital resource for preserving the cultural record, ensuring history remains accessible to all.
Read more in the recent NPR profile ➡️ www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
#SaveTheWeb #DigitalPreservation #MemoryHole #WaybackMachine
Read more in the recent NPR profile ➡️ www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
#SaveTheWeb #DigitalPreservation #MemoryHole #WaybackMachine
When Pluto was a planet...
What Counts as a Planet?
by Patricia Fara
The scientific disagreement about whether Pluto is a planet is just the latest war in the classifications of planets.
www.historytoday.com/archive/grea...
#science #astronomy
by Patricia Fara
The scientific disagreement about whether Pluto is a planet is just the latest war in the classifications of planets.
www.historytoday.com/archive/grea...
#science #astronomy
March 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
When Pluto was a planet...
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‘Time, motion, symbol, line’ by Jonathan Burrows in #Eye37.
Choreographers have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record their work. Technology provides new means, but scoring a dancing body in four dimensions remains elusive, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
#Eyearchive
Choreographers have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record their work. Technology provides new means, but scoring a dancing body in four dimensions remains elusive, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
#Eyearchive
March 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
‘Time, motion, symbol, line’ by Jonathan Burrows in #Eye37.
Choreographers have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record their work. Technology provides new means, but scoring a dancing body in four dimensions remains elusive, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
#Eyearchive
Choreographers have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record their work. Technology provides new means, but scoring a dancing body in four dimensions remains elusive, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
#Eyearchive
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A podcast episode and a book cover walk into a bar — or, writing design vignettes that have an unexpected future... New post at The Quiet Design Scholar ✨
#designwriting #scifi #exhibitions
#designwriting #scifi #exhibitions
Futures Sorts of Things
A podcast episode and a book cover walk into a bar...
jessicabarness.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A podcast episode and a book cover walk into a bar — or, writing design vignettes that have an unexpected future... New post at The Quiet Design Scholar ✨
#designwriting #scifi #exhibitions
#designwriting #scifi #exhibitions
📚 👉 Thinking Through Graphic Design History is officially available for purchase, congratulations to Aggie Toppins! 🎉 The Historiography section includes my work on visualizing and analyzing design conversations.
#designhistory #designresearch
#designhistory #designresearch
February 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📚 👉 Thinking Through Graphic Design History is officially available for purchase, congratulations to Aggie Toppins! 🎉 The Historiography section includes my work on visualizing and analyzing design conversations.
#designhistory #designresearch
#designhistory #designresearch
"Telling students that they must get along with the 'assistance' of AI or can’t be writers or designers or illustrators is a usurpation of the freedom of the individual to go through the pain of their own time and craft and art, and fight it through, and reap the reward of individual accomplishment"
“Just a Tool” and Other Stories — Natalia Ilyin
Ever one to hope for the best, last semester I suggested that students use ChatGPT as a “research partner” in the big bibliographic project they do in the Fall term of Parallel Narratives , their Jun...
www.nataliailyin.net
February 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Telling students that they must get along with the 'assistance' of AI or can’t be writers or designers or illustrators is a usurpation of the freedom of the individual to go through the pain of their own time and craft and art, and fight it through, and reap the reward of individual accomplishment"
Need help writing abstracts for your design research project? Join us for a workshop this Friday Feb 14 — FREE! — as part of CAA 2025.
designincubation.com/design-event...
designincubation.com/design-event...
Workshop on Writing an Academic Abstract
An Affiliated Society Meeting at the CAA 113th Annual Conference
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February 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Need help writing abstracts for your design research project? Join us for a workshop this Friday Feb 14 — FREE! — as part of CAA 2025.
designincubation.com/design-event...
designincubation.com/design-event...
Excellent advice from @katelynknox.bsky.social — good reminders in this list, and some ideas that are new to me too
dissertationtobook.com/sustain-mome...
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How I Sustain Momentum on Writing Projects - Academic Book Central
Writing an academic book typically takes years. Complicating matters, you often have to work on other projects (like journal articles) while working on the book. Sustaining momentum on any writing pro...
dissertationtobook.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Excellent advice from @katelynknox.bsky.social — good reminders in this list, and some ideas that are new to me too
dissertationtobook.com/sustain-mome...
dissertationtobook.com/sustain-mome...
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Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals
Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.
By Ashley Belanger
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#DataProtection #internet
Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.
By Ashley Belanger
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#DataProtection #internet
Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals
Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.
arstechnica.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals
Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.
By Ashley Belanger
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#DataProtection #internet
Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.
By Ashley Belanger
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#DataProtection #internet
Today I've been down the early 2000s research rabbit hole of design forums — here are a few screenshots from the AIGA Design Forum, circa 2002 💬 #aiga #designresearch #graphicdesign
February 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Today I've been down the early 2000s research rabbit hole of design forums — here are a few screenshots from the AIGA Design Forum, circa 2002 💬 #aiga #designresearch #graphicdesign
Tools are not neutral and cake tastes better with frosting! Part 3 of my short essays series about my Emigre Magazine Index project.
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jessicabarness.substack.com/p/constructi...
Constructing the Emigre Magazine Index (Part 3)
Tools are not neutral. And, cake tastes better with frosting.
jessicabarness.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Tools are not neutral and cake tastes better with frosting! Part 3 of my short essays series about my Emigre Magazine Index project.
jessicabarness.substack.com/p/constructi...
jessicabarness.substack.com/p/constructi...
New Designers on Film episode, this time we discuss Nosferatu (2024)! I was honored to be a returning guest on the podcast...
#nosferatu #podcast #design
#nosferatu #podcast #design
Nosferatu (2024) with Jessica Barness — DESIGNERS ON FILM
Jessica Barness, design scholar and scholarly designer, recently began exploring a new design sci-fi writing project that deals with blacklisted visual tools and biopreferences. When Jessica was last ...
www.designersonfilm.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New Designers on Film episode, this time we discuss Nosferatu (2024)! I was honored to be a returning guest on the podcast...
#nosferatu #podcast #design
#nosferatu #podcast #design
Glimpse of my fictionalized book cover for a project with Matriarchal Design Futures #graphicdesign #designfutures
January 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Glimpse of my fictionalized book cover for a project with Matriarchal Design Futures #graphicdesign #designfutures
Recently, I was a guest on the Designers on Film podcast and we discussed the film "Until the End of the World" (1991) directed by Wim Wenders. Link to listen below... #film #designersonfilm
Until the End of the World (1991) with Jessica Barness — DESIGNERS ON FILM
Director Wim Wenders has inspired the likes of Beyonce and Kevin Smith, among others, and while he’s known for Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas , his lesser-known epic Until the End of the Wo...
www.designersonfilm.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Recently, I was a guest on the Designers on Film podcast and we discussed the film "Until the End of the World" (1991) directed by Wim Wenders. Link to listen below... #film #designersonfilm
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"Glitchy Vision is an instructive analysis of the ways social photography can be necessarily broken and remade via a radical feminist lens." —Legacy Russell https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550826/glitchy-vision/
December 20, 2024 at 8:28 PM
"Glitchy Vision is an instructive analysis of the ways social photography can be necessarily broken and remade via a radical feminist lens." —Legacy Russell https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550826/glitchy-vision/
Inspiration for writers -- academic and beyond... substack.com/home/post/p-...
Evergreen #AcWriMoments
Plus, a delicious new resource is heading your way!
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December 20, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Inspiration for writers -- academic and beyond... substack.com/home/post/p-...
hello, Bluesky! Rather than contemplating the perfect first post (ha!) let's begin with some recent writing...
#graphicdesign #designwriting #Emigremagazine #designhistory
#graphicdesign #designwriting #Emigremagazine #designhistory
Determining the Emigre Magazine Index (Part 2)
People, hierarchies, contributions, and a designer-authored magazine
jessicabarness.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:53 PM
hello, Bluesky! Rather than contemplating the perfect first post (ha!) let's begin with some recent writing...
#graphicdesign #designwriting #Emigremagazine #designhistory
#graphicdesign #designwriting #Emigremagazine #designhistory