Projects
Taller Electric Marronage
It all started when:
A group of black, brown, queer, writers, artists decided to plot points across their escape matrix.
Inspired by the petit marronage of our ancestors we steal away on this electric platform, share our journeys + offer what we find along the way…
Winner of the 2020 Garfinkel Prize from the Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association
Co-Kin Curators: Jessica Marie Johnson and Yomaira C. Figueroa
Image: Fractals by Jose Arturo Ballester
Digital Portals into the History of Africans and People of African Descent in Gulf Coast Louisiana
Principal Investigator: Jessica Marie Johnson
Image: French Market and Red Store, Louis Dominique Grandjean Develle, c. 1840
Keywords for Black Louisiana
In celebration of Metropolitan United Methodist Church’s 195th Anniversary, this project examines this historic Black church’s vast past through film. Located on 1121 West Lanvale Street in West Baltimore, Metropolitan United Methodist Church was founded by Truman Pratt (1775-1877), a formerly enslaved man from Anne Arundel County, Maryland. With a nearly two century history in the city of Baltimore, this project documents the history of this church from its antebellum roots, its involvement in the Baltimore Civil Rights Movements, to its history today.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Christina Thomas
Metropolitan United Methodist Church History Project
The Creation of a Food Apartheid in Baltimore
“The Creation of a Food Apartheid in Baltimore” incorporates zoning maps, interviews, ethnographic work with the Black Yield Institute, and Johns Hopkins University’s interventions in the city of Baltimore. The final project will be in the form of a podcast with visual elements that will have a home on a website.
A 2021 Center for Africana Studies Honors Thesis
Principal Investigator: Georgia McFarland
Image Credit: Super Jet Advertisement, Baltimore Afro-American, 1968
salt.codes
Where digital studies comes to bloom ⇢ art, life, design, videogames, digital technologies, and *so* much more. Thrive with us | vibe with us
An irlhumanities + life_x_code 🌱 collaboration
Bytes of Black Flesh
Speculative censuses and datasets surfacing the “impossible story” (Hartman) in eighteenth-century Louisiana's archive of slavery.
Designer/Director: Jessica Marie Johnson
An AADHum Scholars 2019-2020 Project (more here)
Image Credit: 1731 Louisiana Census, Jessica Marie Johnson
An archive of print material and data on Puerto Rico’s Carolina community at the turn of the century, as collected by Fernando Pico.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sarah Bruno
Now part of the DSL microlab Taller Entre Aguas (dslprojects.org)
Image Credit: "Casa Alcaldia - Carolina Puerto Rico" by Ian Poellet is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
