Hi! I’m an experience designer, strategist, curator, and internet researcher.
I love connecting internet-driven insights to real-world phenomena, facilitating workshops and events, designing user tests, and solving problems related to spatial/systems design.
CURRENT: A little of everything for Rhizome.org of New Museum + Researching the rhythmic patterns of group chats for a trust.support grant
PAST CLIENTS:
Nike, Chanel, Brookfield Properties. Tiffany & Co, Petco, Rogers/FIDO, Caesar’s Entertainment & Casinos, JDS Development Group, MLB, Modelorama, Chick-fil-a, Triple Five Group, Citi Bank
This section features curation, writing, and research related to the “post-internet” era and beyond. Interests typically relate to social and community structures and digital art.
LIFE IN 256KB: A WORKSHOP ABOUT DATA FOOTPRINTS AND THE SOLAR WEB, 2024
'Life in 256KB' is a lecture/workshop/website that guides participants through an ecological overview of the internet. It was originally created for Gray Area Festival in San Francisco with support from the Teiger Foundation, it been expanded/updated for ITERATIONS 2024 festival hosted at The Design Museum Bosch in the Netherlands, this workshop was mentioned by The Brooklyn Rail and discussed for a talk with Onassis ONX.
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'Life in 256KB' is a lecture/workshop/website that guides participants through an ecological overview of the internet. It was originally created for Gray Area Festival in San Francisco with support from the Teiger Foundation, it been expanded/updated for ITERATIONS 2024 festival hosted at The Design Museum Bosch in the Netherlands, this workshop was mentioned by The Brooklyn Rail and discussed for a talk with Onassis ONX.
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LURKERS ON LURKING WITHIN KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ECOSYSTEMS
FALL, 2023
This event was a combination of research and audience participation in order to explore the role of the lurker within online communities.
“As motivations and needs change, lurkers shift between different forms of lurking. Varying from pure consumption to periphery learning, lurkers tend to follow a more-than-average amount of content from a diverse range of potential sources. When considering who might hold the knowledge and memory of the internet—maybe it could be lurkers?“
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FALL, 2023
This event was a combination of research and audience participation in order to explore the role of the lurker within online communities.
“As motivations and needs change, lurkers shift between different forms of lurking. Varying from pure consumption to periphery learning, lurkers tend to follow a more-than-average amount of content from a diverse range of potential sources. When considering who might hold the knowledge and memory of the internet—maybe it could be lurkers?“
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CINEMA OF TRANSMISSION
SUMMER, 2023
A screening series, organized as a part of the 2023 FWB Festival, an event described by the festival's manifesto as "a destination gathering of new-internet communities, and a temporary network city for creating culture and exploring new ideas." This collection of works seeks to explore artists' varying relationships to an evolving internet.
“The past and futures of transmission technologies will always reflect our humanity back at us. From playful, gesture-based performances of the computer mouse to the pseudo-anonymous assemblage of collective cognitive labor, each screening is a conversation between our material realities and the internet.“
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SUMMER, 2023
A screening series, organized as a part of the 2023 FWB Festival, an event described by the festival's manifesto as "a destination gathering of new-internet communities, and a temporary network city for creating culture and exploring new ideas." This collection of works seeks to explore artists' varying relationships to an evolving internet.
“The past and futures of transmission technologies will always reflect our humanity back at us. From playful, gesture-based performances of the computer mouse to the pseudo-anonymous assemblage of collective cognitive labor, each screening is a conversation between our material realities and the internet.“
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WEB ART JAM
SUMMER, 2020
The Web Art Jam was an international weeklong series of talks and workshops, leading up to a 2-day website creation jam!
The event was run through discord with about 300 participants ! In the discord group, structures were provided to encourage collaboration, exploration, and learning - including a 24/7 group of volunteer HTML/CSS instructors.
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SUMMER, 2020
The Web Art Jam was an international weeklong series of talks and workshops, leading up to a 2-day website creation jam!
The event was run through discord with about 300 participants ! In the discord group, structures were provided to encourage collaboration, exploration, and learning - including a 24/7 group of volunteer HTML/CSS instructors.
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LIGHTSHINE CHAMBER
EARLY 2020 - 2023
Lightshine chamber was a discord community for the creation, discovery, and discussion of open knowledge. It was created in 2020 by Briana Griffin + Sofia Pujol.
The culture found within the discord was extremely fluid - members shifting between frequent posters and lurkers, becoming the occasional organizer, and using the discord itself as an indexed reference library.
Despite interest in complex subjects - the group collectively practices translation, patiently making sure every person who is interested is able to learn something - no matter their background or experience.
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EARLY 2020 - 2023
Lightshine chamber was a discord community for the creation, discovery, and discussion of open knowledge. It was created in 2020 by Briana Griffin + Sofia Pujol.
The culture found within the discord was extremely fluid - members shifting between frequent posters and lurkers, becoming the occasional organizer, and using the discord itself as an indexed reference library.
Despite interest in complex subjects - the group collectively practices translation, patiently making sure every person who is interested is able to learn something - no matter their background or experience.
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