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Poetry Projects & Collaborations
​(DH & Critical Making below)

Ten Thousand Haiku

27 Years of 17-syllable Days
Beth Johnston
Encaustic painting, 2018
India ink and 24k gold leaf on beeswax
5" x 7"

Selection of Haiku featured on the Haikubox website.

Text from haiku numbers 1516, 2622, and 2740 set to choir music for children
​by Australian composer Zoey Harr.

Poetry collaborations not (or no longer) online include a hand-made book of poetry illustrated by painter​ Adrienne Stein, haiku writing exercise published in Galli Creative's mini-workshop Friday Morning Haiku, and a group of haiku featured in the booklet 'Poetry, Grief and Healing' published by Dog Horn Publishing in the UK, among others.

Digital Humanities / Critical Making Projects

The Art of War:
MoMA Acquisitions 1940–1949

Class Project, Intro to DH

NC State University, 2020
antiBODY: An Anthology
of Poetry & Medicine

Master's Thesis Project

UNC-Chapel Hill, 2018
Frankenstein Touch

Stylized styrofoam head covered in conductive paint so it acts as a touch interface. Interface is connected to an arduino and a basic Python program that "reads" the voltage a human body pulls from it when touched and reacts with a "reading" of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Touch Interface for Frankenproject

Alongside Kelsey Dufresne and Dr. David Rieder at NC State University, Frankenproject is an expansion on the Frankenstein Touch interface. Currently under construction, it includes (among other things) 3D printing, glitch art, audio, natural language processing, and animated text.
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