april vendetta (they/them) explores themes of control, labor, and sexual play through D.I.Y. surveillance to question the human body's physicality and resilience. They are co-founder of HUMAN TRASH DUMP. HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participant’s stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a c...
april vendetta (they/them) explores themes of control, labor, and sexual play through D.I.Y. surveillance to question the human body's physicality and resilience. They are co-founder of HUMAN TRASH DUMP. HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participant’s stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud.
Contact: humantrashdump@gmail.com
Resources
HUMAN TRASH DUMP on archive.org (an imperfect solution due to some censorship issues*)
HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participants stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud.
Fragmented-Body / Fragmented Archive (this presentation took place during New York Archives Week Symposium hosted by The Archivists Round Table (A.R.T.) of Metropolitan New York on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 at 3:45 PM EST.)
- vendetta: the fragmented archive
Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase (presentation took place as part in the Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase Hosted by the Queens College Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists & the Archival Technologies Lab. AERI 2021 virtual conference.
Conditions & Possibilities - Organized by Noah Ortega (Artist talk back after a collective/individual public action(s) outside the New York Stock Exchange, 2021)
Action In The Street: A Guide to Performing & Archiving Public Exchange
21s thesis Griess archive copy
thesis part II
*http://www.albatross.website/albatrossartfair (scroll down for human trash dump/april vendetta. Artwork created about being censored and having my personal account locked on the internet archive)
Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software
NYU dean sends R.E.M. dance video as part of response to students' call for tuition refund
Additional Links
INSTITUTION IS A VERB : A PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LAB COMPILATION (FREE PDF)
Fugitivision TV - One Man: The Liberation Project
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz
The Black Trans Archive - Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
The Black Trans Archive Is Revolutionizing How We Tell Queer History
One Black Woman’s Path to Librarianship (and Some Advice) - Interview with Gina Murrell
I’m Leaving the Archival Profession: It’s Better This Way by Jarrett M. Drake
Archiving Series: Archiving Through People
We Still Can't Eat Prestige: Lessons from Arts and Cultural Worker Organizing
Artists Against Displacement
Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the Lower East Side
PETITION: Stop Displacement in Lower Manhattan
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
January Week of Action to Demand: #CancelStudentDebt https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-to-join-our-cancel-student-debt-week-of-action/
https://debtcollective.org
Resources for Artists, Activists, and Archivists (compiled by April in their thesis)
- Joan Mitchell Foundation Professional Development & Resources for Artists
joanmitchellfoundation.org/professional-development
filmpreservation.org/nfpf-grants
- SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) Family Album – Getting Started: Preservation Guide for your Personal Archive
saada.org/familyalbum/resources
- Smithsonian Institution Archives – How to Do Oral History Guide
siarchives.si.edu/history/how-do-oral-history
- Starting an Artist Interview Program: Hard-Earned Lessons on Best Practices by Tim Lillis and Erica Gangsei
sfmoma.org/read/starting-artist-interview-program
- Volunteer Lawyers for The Arts - New York
vlany.org
- Witness – Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video
archiving.witness.org/archive-guide
xfrcollective.wordpress.com/resources
EAI - Electronic Arts Intermix
VDB - Video Data Bank
