Wolff Conference Room Wednesday, October 1, 7-8 pm EDT
Charles Broskoski is the CEO and co-founder of Are.na, a platform for sharing knowledge, connecting references, and channeling ideas over time. For the past 14 years, Are.na has provided an experience on the internet that is calm, thoughtful, and introspective. It is funded solely by the people who use it and it is entirely categorized and connected by humans, giving it a quality that is different from nearly every other place on the web.
http://www.are.na Instagram: @aredotna
Kellen Auditorium Thursday, October 23, 7–8pm EDT
Neta Bomani is a community organizer, educator, and zine maker. She is the co-director of programs at the School for Poetic Computation and co-director of Sojourners for Justice Press—an imprint of Haymarket Books. Neta is also the co-founder of the Black Zine Fair. Their work has been exhibited or collected by the Brooklyn Museum, the Barnard Zine Library, The Kitchen, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library. Neta received a graduate degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Her practice empowers people to critically engage with technology; embody abolitionist, Black feminist, and do-it-yourself philosophies; and co-create liberatory systems.
netabomani.com Instagram: @netazines
**Theresa Lang Student Center Friday, October 24, 9–10am EDT
Nina Stössinger** (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type, an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn, and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces (including Empirica and Conductor, both designed with Tobias Frere-Jones), Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for the New York City Football Club, the National Gallery of Art, Microsoft, SAS Institute, and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club, chairing the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, Nina studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. They enjoy the confluence of form and content, language, history, and technology in typeface design, and aim to never stop learning.
frerejones.com Instagram: @ninastoessinger
Kaplan Auditorium Wednesday, October 29, 7-8 pm EDT
Chia Amisola is an internet artist; a Product Designer at Figma, a creative tooling platform; and Executive Director of Developh, a nonprofit for art & code in Southeast Asia. They create websites, performances, games, and tools explore the identities, intimacies, and infrastructures of the web, particularly from the third world experience. Presently, they make hypertexts and software that examine technology's relationship with agency, ambience, and atmosphere. They are based between Manila and New York.
amiso.la Instagram: @hotemogf