Jonathan Thirkield (@jonthirkield) profile picture

digital/visual poetics, writer, teacher

Joined May 2012
I am very late on this--here are the opening 3 lines of my poem "Drop" in @_conjunctions amazing and horrowing Earth Elegies issue. Deeply grateful to have my voice among this concert of voices. Please find a copy and read everything in it. Our minds are all part of the Earth.
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A stark governmental example of #codingtheself / coding subjugated identities based on the idea/possibility of engineering your visual identity through DNA. "Called DNA phenotyping. Scientists use it to analyze genes for traits like skin color, eye color and ancestry."
In Xinjiang, Chinese police are using the blood and faces of an oppressed minority to craft dystopian technologies that may not even work. For years, they’ve been publishing their findings in respected international journals. W/ @suilee nytimes.com/2019/12/03/busin…
Here is another, actually quite visually beautiful (like quartz), story attesting to the Internet's opposition to nature. bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-…
This is what the Internet actually looks like to nature. bbc.com/future/article/20191…
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There are no flowers on the Internet. @nytimes Nature isn't a metaphor. Internet is the opposite of nature.
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Agnes Denes again, because, so amazing.
Yes, from 1970!! #dataviz people (et all) please take a look at Agnes Denes "Absolutes and Intermediates" at @TheShedNY and read this Washington Post thing too: washingtonpost.com/entertain…
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Taught W. E. B. Du Bios's Data Portraits in my Transforming Data class yesterday. This is one of the best and most necessary books on data visualization that I have seen. Amazing work by @brittrusert et all and @PAPress!
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Replying to @99piorg
@99piorg Great podcast/article on the connections between kindergarten and modern art/abstract visual language. 99percentinvisible.org/episo…