036 - HUMAN TRASH DUMP

april vendetta (they/them) explores themes of control, labor, and sexual play through D.I.Y. surveillance to question the human body's physicality and resilience. They are co-founder of HUMAN TRASH DUMP. HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participant’s stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud. Contact: [email protected]   Resources HUMAN TRASH DUMP on archive.org (an imperfect solution due to some censorship issues*) HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participants stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud. Fragmented-Body / Fragmented Archive (this presentation took place during New York Archives Week Symposium hosted by The Archivists Round Table (A.R.T.) of Metropolitan New York on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 at 3:45 PM EST.)   vendetta: the fragmented archive Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase (presentation took place as part in the Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase Hosted by the Queens College Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists & the Archival Technologies Lab. AERI 2021 virtual conference. Conditions & Possibilities - Organized by Noah Ortega (Artist talk back after a collective/individual public action(s) outside the New York Stock Exchange, 2021) Action In The Street: A Guide to Performing & Archiving Public Exchange 21s thesis Griess archive copy thesis part II *http://www.albatross.website/albatrossartfair (scroll down for human trash dump/april vendetta. Artwork created about being censored and having my personal account locked on the internet archive) Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software NYU dean sends R.E.M. dance video as part of response to students' call for tuition refund Additional Links INSTITUTION IS A VERB : A PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LAB COMPILATION (FREE PDF) Fugitivision TV - One Man: The Liberation Project Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz The Black Trans Archive - Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley The Black Trans Archive Is Revolutionizing How We Tell Queer History One Black Woman’s Path to Librarianship (and Some Advice) - Interview with Gina Murrell I’m Leaving the Archival Profession: It’s Better This Way by Jarrett M. Drake Archiving Series: Archiving Through People We Still Can't Eat Prestige: Lessons from Arts and Cultural Worker Organizing Artists Against Displacement Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the Lower East Side PETITION: Stop Displacement in Lower Manhattan National Mobilization Against Sweatshops January Week of Action to Demand: #CancelStudentDebt https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-to-join-our-cancel-student-debt-week-of-action/ https://debtcollective.org Resources for Artists, Activists, and Archivists (compiled by April in their thesis) Joan Mitchell Foundation Professional Development & Resources for Artists joanmitchellfoundation.org/professional-development NFPF Grants filmpreservation.org/nfpf-grants SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) Family Album – Getting Started: Preservation Guide for your Personal Archive saada.org/familyalbum/resources Smithsonian Institution Archives – How to Do Oral History Guide siarchives.si.edu/history/how-do-oral-history Starting an Artist Interview Program: Hard-Earned Lessons on Best Practices by Tim Lillis and Erica Gangsei sfmoma.org/read/starting-artist-interview-program Volunteer Lawyers for The Arts - New York vlany.org Witness – Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video archiving.witness.org/archive-guide XFR Collective xfrcollect