What is your primary role in the Digital Tattoo project?
At the moment, my main focus is to start a new series of video interviews with local Artists whose work related to Digital Tattoo’s themes of surveillance and Digital Identity.
When did you start working with the Digital Tattoo Team (semester/year)?
I started working on the project this Winter semester, February 2017.
How did you get involved in Digital Tattoo?
I learned about Digital Tattoo through a job posting. I was applying to work at the Faculty of Information Library as Kathleen Scheaffer’s assistant, who is one of the strategic co-leads of the Digital Tattoo project. Coincidentally, I had recently taken a course relating to surveillance practices which explored potential avenues for intervention. The major themes that run through Digital Tattoo are very much aligned with my current research interests.
Why do you believe Digital Tattoo is an important initiative?
Before beginning graduate school in Information studies, I hadn’t thought critically about my online tools that I use daily, often for many hours. I value that Digital Tattoo gives attention to our rights and responsibilities as “digital citizens.” It is often difficult to see what is at stake when it comes to our online activities because our habits have become so naturalized, and the mechanisms of control are for the most part invisible. Digital Tattoo raises a variety of issues by sharing fascinating stories and generating accessible content that offers students the tools to more consciously manage their online presence.
What do you hope that readers will get out of Digital Tattoo?
I hope that readers will find a range of compelling information that will help generate more critical conversation around digital issues.
What are you most passionate about?
Painting! Alongside my studies, I’ve been working on preparing for my second solo exhibition which is going to be this fall. I have about 15 unresolved paintings in the studio at the moment. I work with oil paint and collage and am starting to build an image archive that I use as reference material.
What is one thing you can’t recommend enough?
The films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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