Dorothy R. Santos & Adrian Jones
KST Presents
Docu-poetics and Creative (Flash) Non-Fiction Writing
Co-Presented with The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Saturday, March 11, 2023
3:00pm – 7:00pm
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $0 – $25
KST partners with The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry to present writer, artist and educator Dorothy R. Santos in collaboration with artist, historian, community organizer, and technologist Adrian Jones, for a workshop that explores writing creative non-fiction through the lens of the documentarian and archivist. The workshop is rooted in docu-poetics, a way of writing that honors oral traditions through poetry and experimental prose. Jones and Santos will work through various approaches of recording, documenting, and archiving stories for participants interested in contributing to a community-centered archive. Participants will enjoy a hot meal, and are welcome to bring laptops, tablets or other digital devices to use in the workshop. (Laptops are not necessary for participation!)
Image Credit: Courtesy of the artists
This workshop is made possible with support from Duolingo.
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Dorothy R. Santos
Steiner Spring Visiting Artist Residency Lecture @ the STUDIO!
Thursday, March 2
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry | 4919 Frew Street
College of Fine Arts, Room 111
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*Post Performance Discussion with Alisha Wormsley
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- ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dorothy R. Santos is a Ph.D. candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellow. She received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Rewire Festival, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the GLBT Historical Society. Her writing appears in art21, Art in America, Ars Technica, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, Slate, and Vice Motherboard. Her essay “Materiality to Machines: Manufacturing the Organic and Hypotheses for Future Imaginings,” was published in The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture. She is a co-founder of REFRESH, a politically-engaged art and curatorial collective and serves as the Executive Director for the Processing Foundation. In 2022, she received the mozilla Creative Media Award for her interactive, docu-poetics work The Cyborg’s Prosody (2022). She serves as an advisory board member for POWRPLNT, slash arts, and House of Alegria.
Adrian Jones is a Pittsburgh-based artist, historian, community organizer, and creative technologist. His practice is shaped by a commitment to those living in society’s margins. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Harvard University, his work in software development led him towards exploring the power of speculative imagination and intergenerational storytelling within digital spaces. Currently he is developing Looking Glass, an app-based archive of Black life in Pittsburgh. In January 2023, he was named Logic School’s inaugural Community Technologist.