Come participate in a short collective writing workshop on the topic of nomenclatures and naming; we will draw from personal experience as well as think through how nomenclatures have been used throughout histories of science and technology. This will be followed by a multimedia poetry reading by kathy wu.

kathy wu (she/they) is a cross-disciplinary artist, poet, and educator based in Providence, RI, Narragansett land. Her parents immigrated from post-Cultural Revolution China to Arizona to develop circuitry in the US. kathy works across textiles, code, book arts, and language. Her work is interested in grief, geology, nomenclatures, and histories of technology. She has been published via The New School, MoMA, Dialogist, the Syllabus Project, and Fonograf. She has been a resident at Blue Mountain Center, Pao Arts Center in Boston, and Black Mountain College Museum. She is an assistant professor of Graphic Design at RISD, and a graduate of Brown University’s Literary Arts MFA.