Iz Paehr

designer-researcher ° working on access ° MELT as @unstablematters ° they/them ° ∞ °

[MELT @unstablematters]

Visit our exhibition 'Counting Feelings' at @kunst_uni_koeln until May 11th. Our Pop Up Disabled Data Center offers room to rest, stim, and dream towards lovingly engaging the knowledges of Trans* and disabled people as data... ✨.

[MELT @unstablematters]

We had an amazing time sharing our work on the Imagining Backwards Computer at @control___shift's Feeling Machines weekender 💜⏰ in Bristol.

[MELT @unstablematters]

Publication news 💬: Our entry "The Meltionary" is out in the "More Posthuman Glossary". The Meltionary is a growing experimental directory that investigates different materials, modes and metaphors of melting. DM us your email address for a copy of our text.

[Crystal Lee (@crystaljjlee on all platforms) @crystaljjlee]

After releasing the CFP a year ago (!), @gracenbrilz and I are very pleased to announce that the special issue of @first_monday, “This Feature Has Been Disabled: Critical Intersections of Disability and Information Studies,” is now out!

https://t.co/mBELK14HVG

[Sonic Acts @SonicActs]

‘How then do we imagine? How do we stay with the grief of the current present and still continue to imagine and move toward less violent moments?’ @unstablematters

Explore the meltionary → https://t.co/tZkFGYig95

#SAB22 #LeavingTraces

[MELT @unstablematters]

Every person's presence on the website unravels a paragraph from the meditation for everyone who is online at the same time. Shapeshifting blobs indicate presences in various colors. These colors simultaneously light up a lamp in the exhibition at W139.

[MELT @unstablematters]

Our work PRESENCE-PAST PRESENCE-PRESENT PRESENCE-FUTURE connects online visitors and visitors at @SonicActs exhibition. Join via https://t.co/hu0YltIILm 💜.

[The video shows the words "grounding without the certainty of meeting grounds" as they appear on the website.]

[MELT @unstablematters]

Join us for the @SonicActs biennial opening tomorrow eve at W139 in Amsterdam ~ we are showing a meditation for Trans* and disabled futures 🔮. Link to the exhibition: https://t.co/RP2teJSfkD.

[Iz Paehr @isipaehr]

@cladinrad @maxgotjokes 🐦💞 beautiful.

[Sam Tsao @sam___tsao]

I think everyone, including people who don't code, can benefit from using the command line.

Here are 6 command line tools that can help you do simple tasks that are otherwise annoying to do:

[MELT @unstablematters]

Some impressions from our Zeitgeber (time-giver) SUN TEA, performed at Training for the Future in Turino at @fondsrr ☀️ in late June ~ posted with wishes for a restful week.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

What does a barrier to access look like?

It looks like being told "If you want to see change you need to donate your time to this uni/org/board/conference/committee"

So you give your time to that group, and you do the work required, and you go a step beyond. 1/7

[Topicbird 🤖🐦 @thetopicbird]

First glimpse into our narrative thriller
🔥🌊🛢️PARADIGM SHELL 🛢️🌊🔥
set on an abandoned oil rig ...

⚠️ we are currently looking for a Publisher
📢 RTs super appreciated
#pitchyagame

[The Institute for Endotic Research @endotic]

June 2–3 (Workshop) & June 4–18 (Spatial Setting). MELT @unstablematters (Loren Britton @lorenslug & Isabel Paehr @isipaehr): Conspiring Timelines: Shimmering Temporalities https://t.co/sySFD51piv

[Iz Paehr @isipaehr]

Happy to share this new MELT newsletter. Please join to keep up-to-date with @lorenslug and my work - some exciting workshops are upcoming :).

[MELT @unstablematters]

To stay up to date with our work & events & exhibitions we'd be thrilled to add you to our informal newsletter (~ 1 email per month). Please DM with your email address to be added ✨💜.

[Shintaro Miyazaki @algorhythmics]

Honored to release together with @EylulIscen the first counter-n articles, https://t.co/HpCslVKE41 > insurgent computing @Engelhardt_dcc, unstable computing @unstablematters, decolonial computing @stefaniewu, weird futuring @BaharNoorizadeh and counter futuring @juspar.

[MELT @unstablematters]

Last day to sign up for Rest Assured, our reading group on non-normative ways of experiencing, theorising, materialising, subverting and being in time 🔄🔮: https://t.co/tfXe4Rla84 hosted by @SonicActs.

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

I built a new tool where you can experiment with DNS called Mess With DNS! It's at https://t.co/LKicvZcOkx.

I made this with @omarieclaire, and there's a blog post about how we built it here: https://t.co/dmkI4d4Hnq. Here's a gif: