Amanda Wyatt Visconti

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It's... @Literature_Geek from Twitter! (Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti, they/them). Mostly on Bluesky (how=tinyurl.com/DHBluesky).

🐶💻Director of Scholars' Lab (@scholarslab)
Runs DH Slack (tinyurl.com/DHSlack), officer in DH scholarly org @achdotorg/@hcommons.social

🌈Just and joyful social, interface, infrastructure design for communal research!
🍞Experimental DH/DS in your library!
‼️Exclamation marks as feminist praxis!
📚 Zines, research webdev
🏳️‍⚧️Trans non-binary they/them

WebsiteAmandaVisconti.com
Research blogLiteratureGeek.com
Bluesky @LiteratureGeekhttps://bsky.app/profile/literaturegeek.bsky.social
Culture/tech/justice zineszinebakery.com
Amanda Wyatt ViscontiFeb 17, 2025
Saturday, @josefbeery.bsky.social +collaborators gave a lovely gift to the Alphabuzzzz cohort (folks learning how to teach letterpress history+creativity to public/K-12/library community): a day of book history learning w/ @rarebookschool.bsky.social @rareuva.bsky.social @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace visits, & printing on a big replica Franklin Common Press. Will share photos this week as time allows+
Show threadAmanda Wyatt ViscontiFeb 17, 2025
If you're near Charlottesville & have kids (low minimum age: old enough to use safety scissors) join the Alphabuzzzz teachers at the VA Humanities Book Arts printshop on 3/15 for free hands-on history learning & creativity w/letterpress. No experience needed. Learn to make cool colorful prints to take home: https://www.vabook.org/events/2025/03/alphabuzz-wkshops/
ALPHABUZZ: Exploring the Alphabet, the Book, and Literacy with a Printing Press - Virginia Center for the Book

A free drop-in open house for the community will be held on Saturday, January 25 from 1:00 until 4:00 at the Virginia Center for the Book at the Jefferson School City Center in downtown Charlottesville. This free-form workshop will introduce visitors to the BookBeetle Press and many of the educational activities that have been developed for use with students of any age.

Virginia Center for the Book
Show threadAmanda Wyatt ViscontiFeb 14, 2025
More lasercutting letterpress wood blocks design, 2/3:

* Historical Luddite image +“Critical Tech Forever! no ‘innovations’ serving profit over people”
* Historical manicule/pointing hand w/the historically accurate word “oof” on it
* “glitch” in an outlined serif antiquey font +
Amanda Wyatt ViscontiFeb 14, 2025
More lasercutter letterpress wood block design (all horizontally flipped for social media legibility), 1/3:

* Annotate your prints w/“printed by a [trans/ally] printer!”+color-in-able 🏳️‍⚧️ outline
*“ We are older than your laws & we will outlive them” (quote by https://etsy.com/shop/coyotesnout) w/same 🏳️‍⚧️ outline
* “glitch their systems” w/pixely old English font +
Amanda Wyatt ViscontiFeb 14, 2025
Show threadAmanda Wyatt ViscontiFeb 14, 2025
@chrisamaphone Hi! The authors didn't create that GIF so can't edit it, but here's a "DIY Web Archiving Zine" link https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving with a non-flashing cover image for sharing instead. Thanks for asking!
DIY Web Archiving | Zine Bakery

Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2, by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti

Zine Bakery
Amanda Wyatt ViscontiFeb 2, 2025
jonathan w. y. gray 🐨Jan 28, 2025
how to save stuff on the internet? short, sweet & useful zine on diy web archiving by @bitarchivist @webrecorder @quinnanya @annakijas @Literature_Geek ✨💾🐢 https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving #webarchiving
DIY Web Archiving | Zine Bakery

Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2, by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti

Zine Bakery
Amanda Wyatt ViscontiMay 29, 2024
Also this week, I made a light-up resin TTRPG dice necklace for a friend! (Still haven't achieved rollable dice yet, but having LED wires come out of one die face gets around the challenge of getting the top of the mold to closely match the other die faces) #DHmakes
Amanda Wyatt ViscontiMay 29, 2024
Tried to include embedded large googly eyes, but they migrated from where they should be during curing, unfortunately, so not visible. I'm not sure if I should add to the exterior or keep as-is—what do yall think? #DHmakes
Amanda Wyatt ViscontiMay 29, 2024
I finished making a silly resin memento mori. Brain is a dry ramen noodle block, teeth are novelty chatter teeth, and it took ~ a week of daily pours/sets and curing time. It's full-size (just the front half of a skull). #DHmakes
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Amanda Wyatt ViscontiMay 1, 2024

My article discusses:
* citing & shelving many knowledge formats as a justice issue;
* benefits of building you a lil db of stuff you dig;
* using datasets to design & build book-adjacent electronics, fabrication, coding, art, etc. prototypes
* includes a bonus making tutorial!

https://dhandlib.org/2024/04/29/book-adjacent-database-makerspace-prototypes-repairing-book-centric-citation-bias-in-dh-working-libraries/

#DHmakes