Kristin Arola will give a talk this Friday, October 3, in our ongoing colloquium series. Her reading will be held in the Bundy Reading Room of Avery Hall from noon to 1:00 p.m. Her presentation is entitled “Slow Composition: An Indigenous Approach to Digital Making.” Everyone is welcome to attend.
Abstract:
“Those of us who engage with digital production and multimodal pedagogies know the amount of work that goes into creating a website, video, poster, or sound project. These projects require detailed planning, drafting, and revising, all steps that take more time than we often like to devote during a semester-long course. During this talk, I suggest we make the time. By placing digital composing practices alongside indigenous making practices and epistemologies – specifically the Anishinaabe peoples of the upper Great Lakes region – I argue for a slow composition. Slowing down our pedagogies enables a mindfulness, thus encouraging a consideration of the materials with which we compose, the relations between these objects, and our role in the creation of texts.”
