A bedroom is more than just a room; it's a sanctuary to truly explore and understand oneself. It serves as a map for the journey into the personal, marking the first steps into a world of self-discovery. Just as the poster-covered walls of a teenager's room reflect their burgeoning identity, the virtual landscapes we build online provide a space to navigate our interests and beliefs, playing a crucial role in shaping who we are.
With the ethos of early 2000s homepages and personal sites such as Geocities in mind, this workshop aims to extend this concept in the form of a digital zine. Together we will explore the connections between zine culture and DIY online spaces. We’ll use Alienmelon’s virtual tool and Electric Zine Maker to create mini-zines housing our own digital sanctuaries.
For this workshop, you will need to bring:
- a laptop with Electric Zine Maker preinstalled (Find the software here: alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker)*
- images of your own interior spaces and/or personal belongings to help form the content of your zine
* There are a limited number of laptops available to borrow for the session on a first come, first served basis. Please contact: projects@tpg.org.uk if you would like to reserve one.
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Biography
Kendal Beynon is a Rotterdam-based artist and PhD researcher at CSNI in partnership with The Photographer’s Gallery. Her work is situated in the realm of experimental publishing and internet culture. She aims to rediscover an alternative online landscape through DIY ethos, computational publishing, and community building, while also examining the ruins of our digital past. Beynon completed a BA in Music Journalism in the UK (2013).
She received an MA degree in Experimental Publishing from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam with the thesis: Cyberhotels and Other Tales of Forgotten Virtual Worlds. She also is heavily engaged with the zine-making community by hosting workshops and co-organising the Rotterdam-based zine festival, Zine Camp, and creating a community of old web aficionados at Dead Web Club.
