Kelli Anderson's Blog

(from my tinyletter)

I just finished the stop-motion opening title sequence (and social media branding) for New_ Public, a conference about the future of online public spaces happening this week.

How can we make open public space on the internet impervious to being coopted by white hate groups? Can these spaces be assembled in a way that facilitates safety/shared cultural values as a foundational value? How can we build digital worlds that resist replicating the world’s racist/sexist/ableist ...

C, M, Y (no K!) lightbulbs plus a magnifying glass equals this.

Striped light plus a rounded piece of plexiglass equals this.

Adrienne Rich’s poetry is best known for its impassioned critique of oppressive systems (typically: capitalism or the patriarchy.) Her poem, Hubble Photographs: After Sappho, showcases conflicted feelings regarding scientific enlightenment vs. technology’s destructive potential. It begins as a celebration of the sheer ecstasy experienced when gazing upon a photo...

It’s been almost five years since we completed work on Russ & Daughters Cafe—the beloved 105-year-old appetizing shop’s sit-down complement—in 2014. Since then, people have thrown parties there, John Zorn programs a monthly music series with downtown musicians there, and last week’s “Broad City” episode was an all-out love-letter to the cafe (and the brunch bedlam it inspires).

Lightbox shelving with glass jars of candy.

As a de...

“Modern industry saves us endless drudgery, but… it also bars us from taking part in the forming of material and leaves idle our sense of touch, and with it, those formative faculties that are stimulated by it.”
—Anni Albers

Two things:
1.) I am organizing a new, experimental course at the School for Poetic Computation on the topic of folding-as-tech (rather than just a craft.)
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2.) I’ve made these ^^ foldable RISO prints, which you can buy!. They introduce the topic through super...

“…Order comes from chaos and chaos from order, and this harnessed just right…creates art.”
—Jerry Saltz on Fiscli & Weiss’s entropic 1987 chain-reaction film, The Way Things Go

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This stop motion animation was developed for The Universe in Verse, an evening of poetry and science created by Maria Popova on April 28, 2018 at Pioneer Works. Read her wonderful post about it—which provides the full context of the event.

Poem by Jane Hirshfield | Music by Zoë Keating

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Posters for sale (and free download for DIY printing) here!! We now have Spanish and Chinese language versions as well. So excited that NY Magazine interviewed us too!

In an Eater article published late last year, freelance food journalist Tove Danovich wrote this about the stark disconnect between the laws protecting against sexual harassment in restaurants… and the reality of sexual harassment in restaurants:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employers to provide a workplace ...

“Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge – and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.”

—Thomas Aquinas

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In the futuristic-sounding year of 2017, I published a pop-up book of mechanical paper tech.

Expanding out of This Book is a Planetarium’s pages, you’ll find: a stringed instrument, a perpetual calendar, a decoder ring, a spiralgraph drawing generator, a smartphone speaker...

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A quick note to say: a new site is coming really soon by my friends at Oak (pardon the dust and non-responsiveness in the meantime…)

I devised the branding for SVA’s Visual Narrative students’ final show—And Then….

I’ve attended in previous years and have been consistently impressed by the remarkably wide (and intrepid) variety of work that the students create—from narrative video games to sequential art to immersive storytelling installations. It is really exciting to see the new generation o...

In light of current circumstances, 75% of proceeds (more if I can swing it) from the show and online sales will go to organizations. (Split between the Southern Poverty Law Center, 350.org, and CIEL climate science defense.)

Through December 23, 2016: Around & Around at Mule Gallery, SF
Wednesday–Friday • 1–6pm
Saturday • 12-6pm

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My first gallery show opened! …four days before the election. (So, basically: by day five, the whole experience felt like it lived in a surreal time-capsule.)

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A big client project got delayed and some paper-engineering work is stuck in feedback-tennis with the manufacturer.

And so: I got to spend much of June and July playing with new-toys-and-techniques-of-interest—to see what they could do. Experimentation and summer are natural allies: no to pre-determined plans, yes to bonding with the physical world, time= “10 more minutes…”, etc… I made some short animations things and some websites too.

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The above is an animation style ...