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Intro to Computational Practice Year 0

Week 11 – Computers, Arts and Activism

My projects required a lot of data gathering and archiving and in the case for project 1, this is data that could not have been gotten from anywhere else, and can only really exist online. I believe the implications my website show a bigger problem offline in the form of transgender people not having access to societal resources and offline support so people like myself and other must make databases of information because there simply isn’t currently a body that cares enough about us to do it for us. We must create and share and document things for ourselves and build websites by our individual programming skills, and looking through my own masterpost dataset shows how homemade every single website is. They are not computationally complex. The code is simply the paper of which the means of survival is contained inside.

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