Tactical Media and Critical Design Panel - October 7, 2020

Tactical Media and Critical Design: Rap, Robots, Games, and Poetic Gestures
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 12:40 to 1:45 EST/18:40 to 19:45 GMT
Zoom panel: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/96501025299?pwd=N0p0dzFDTUh3OUFzUkVmdEZGajFOUT09

This panel features artists, activists, and researchers working the borders of practice/theory, technology/society, Black/White, Mexico/US, and Palestine/Israel:

Critical race rap, robots for protestors, apps and games, and poetic gestures of electronic civil disobedience have all emerged as activist media practices over the past 20 years. These media complement new alliances and modes of organizing, including ACT-UP, BLM, #metoo, and Climate School Strike, as well as the emergence of critical design.

This public event is part of Human-Centered Design and Engaged Media (ENGL 4705/INFO 4940/COML 4231), whose four critical design teams work with Black Farmers Fund and Labor Ready (serving Latinx farmers) through Cornell’s Small Farms Program and, through the Cornell Law Clinic, Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre and The Alice Project on Gender and Extreme Sentencing.

The course is part of a multi-year Civic Storytelling project funded by the Society for the Humanities’ Mellon Rural Humanities Initiative, a Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, and an Engaged Cornell Opportunity Grant, with support from the Department of English and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.

For more information, contact Jon McKenzie, Professor of Practice, Department of English, Cornell University at jvm62@cornell.edu