Zines and Critical Making

Please join us on June 24 from 12 to 1:30 EST for a presentation and discussion of “Expressive Paper,” a pilot workshop series on using zines and expressive paper forms in a digital humanities context. These workshops used simple paper construction—zines, pamphlets, flexagons—to explore community information-sharing and ways of representing knowledge. The goal of the series was to prompt “critical making” questions about how information can take material form, and how shared practices of composition can provoke experimentation and improvisation. In this Office Hours session, we’ll share examples from the project library, including physical items, metadata examples, and documentation, and we’ll invite discussion of questions including how to use zine-making in different project and teaching contexts, and how to represent complex objects like zines in digital form. We’ll also invite participants to assemble and bind their own tiny zine collection. RSVP here.