I printed a creative statement for the digital humanities conference ACH 2026’s #DHmakes special interest group / mail art packet:

Print text

Craft is DH method & technology

TECHNOLOGIES aren’t only digital

A TECHNOLOGY is just a human attempt to solve a need. Telegraph, loom, wheelchair, PUNCHCARD, printing press: tech has always been about practice, access, making different worlds, for better & worse.

What knowledge (whose?) does your tech value?

Digital Humanities forms change (apps! CD-ROMs!) What holds: critical, creative, ethical community knowledge-making experimental for social good

“Is this DH?” Does it get us closer to our values & goals?…Does Al?

#DHMAKES*

(As with most of my prints, you can purchase a copy at my store if you’d like one: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/craft-digital-humanities.)

More about the print

*Digital humanities (DH) is an academic field that takes tech approaches to studying & building for the humanities & the arts, and humanities & arts approaches to understanding & making technology. The field’s values include real-time research sharing, transparency, credit, access, and social justice advocacy. #DHmakes is a years-long movement of non-digital and mixed analog-digital craft, making, and art by DH practitioners (often toward DH research and teaching, and with DH methods like data weaving and embodiment).

Some people question #DHMakes’ place in the field but not corporate AI/LMs. They are wrong.

See this post for an overview of what #DHmakes activity has looked like, and how to get involved.

Photo of the print
Photo of inking the press for this print
Photo of inked press & type for this print
Photo of the acrylic retro Mac printing block I lasercut and used in this print
Photo of the print held up in front of the light coming through a frosted door