roopa vasudevan

@rouxpz.bsky.social

new media artist and researcher based between NYC and western massachusetts. faculty @ UMass Amherst art department. views my own. ✨ roopavasudevan.com

So proud to finally announce a project I have been organizing for the past 3 years. An enormous and endless thank you to the artists, galleries, and researchers who have collaborated with me on this ambitious effort. Save the date(s), and see you in Boston, Vancouver, and Lexington this spring. ✨

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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

Jumping right in here with a collab opportunity: 📣 Looking for a print and web designer to collaborate this spring on a catalog project for a series of three exhibitions I am organizing across the US and Canada. This may also extend to helping devise the graphic identity for these shows. (cont'd)

passed my proposal defense this morning - I'm officially ABD now. endlessly grateful to my committee: @johnljacksonjr, @bzelizer, @whkchun, @cshirky and jessa lingel (not on twitter). so excited about moving forward on this project!

taking a social media break while I finish up some projects this month. I’m reachable on email, by text/phone, and messenger (not FB itself tho). see you on the other side ✌🏽

.@gmail can update my ads from a single email I send but can't be bothered to change a contact's preferred name in the autofill settings, even though I've been emailing this person with the correct one for literal YEARS.

rejection season is always difficult for artists, but i have been having a particularly rough one this year, to the point where i have flirted on occasion with the idea of giving up my art career. (1/)

in minneapolis for @eyeofestival and doing some last-minute prep for my ignite talk tomorrow night! i'll be discussing dataDouble, identity, visibility and protest. can't wait for this!

the me in my anxiety dreams has transitioned from a teacher (students staging a mutiny during a lecture) back into a student (tanking a class i wasn’t enrolled in), so i’m taking this as a sign my brain has finally caught up to my life as it is now.

special thanks to everyone who has supported this project so far, including @haverfordhcah and PACC, @whkchun, students and faculty at @AnnenbergPenn and everyone who has participated to date!

.@laurakurgan discussing the @c4sr_columbia analysis of Weibo users in China who use images as a way of subverting censorship -- a trend that is continuing on WeChat today through the use of stickers (hi to all my shanghai ppl!). #digidemsfu