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Still I Rise: Remix - JavaScript Interactive Poetry

Still I Rise: ReMix ✊🏾

“Still I Rise: Remix” is a visual, lyrical, digital interactive fight song for civic action for the #BlackLivesMatter social justice and social change movement. Created during and by the stressors intensified from the global pandemic, this JavaScript interactive poetry remix embraces the digital activism made exponential during the pandemic through the platformization of counternarratives. The remix blends multiple digital mediums with cultural artifacts of the past and present to weave together a rhetorical and semiotic interactive experience that enlightens society and uplifts the human spirit. Through multimodality and intertextuality, “Still I Rise: Remix” exploits the aesthetics of the digital interactive experience through multiple artistic forms of expression, including code, video, audio, and hypertext. This COVID E-Lit interactive exhibition is a multimodal expression and declarative statement for the #BlackLivesMatter movement which embodies the spirit of change, inclusion, and social justice. “The medium is the message.” Experience “Still I Rise: Remix.”

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The Narrative of the Image 📱 ACM Hypertext and Social Media 2020

The Narrative of the Image 📱 ACM Hypertext and Social Media 2020 – This poster paper explores semiotics and rhetoric as narrative in social media visual culture, specifically with issues of identity and social change on social media platforms such as YouTube. Under the umbrella of semiotics, postmodernism, and poststructuralism, the paper builds upon the work of Roland Barthes, Stuart Hall, and Safiya Umoja Noble by expanding the concepts of visual semiotics, visual rhetoric, postcolonialism, critical race theory, and algorithms to examine the narrative of the image.

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The Narrative of the Image

This poster paper explores semiotics and rhetoric as narrative in social media visual culture, specifically with issues of identity and social change on social media platforms such as YouTube. Under the umbrella of semiotics, postmodernism, and poststructuralism, the paper builds upon the work of Roland Barthes, Stuart Hall, and Safiya Umoja Noble by expanding the concepts of visual semiotics, visual rhetoric, postcolonialism, critical race theory, and algorithms to examine the narrative of the image.

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Billionaires [The #Forbes400], and now possibly a trillionaire [#JeffBezos / #Amazon] 💰💵 🏦, are the byproduct of a system designed for those at the top to survive and thrive, while those at the bottom are relegated to some movement within their socioeconomic lane. Before I address Jeff Bezos / Amazon directly, let’s set the stage.

The Forbes 400 Conversation: Reshaping and Reforming Society into One that Prioritizes People over Profit

Billionaires [The #Forbes400], and now possibly a trillionaire [#JeffBezos / #Amazon] 💰💵 🏦, are the byproduct of a system designed for those at the top to survive and thrive, while those at the bottom are relegated to some movement within their socioeconomic lane. Before I address Jeff Bezos / Amazon directly, let’s set the stage.

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Yours or Mine – Extensions of the Body – Participatory Art 🎭

For Creative Project Three: Extensions of the Body, I focused upon the theme of internal and external influences. We are continually influenced by the words thoughts and emotions of others. We continually strive to thrive, coexist and survive in this Rat Race known, as the Human Experience. However, we sometimes act and react to the words, thoughts and emotions of others instead of our own. To address this theme, I created a participatory, interactive performance piece.

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