About:

hannah is a PhD candidate in the School of Communications as well as a Mellon-SFU fellow to the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University—on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

hannah’s doctoral research probes the intersection of critical and creative data studies, decolonial or depth education, and embodied and imaginative methods. Their studies are oriented towards the development of (un)learning modalities that disorient designed cultural associations and habits, and turn us towards different forms of learning, inhabiting and relationality.

Their MA thesis—hosted on and emergent from the freewrite stream on this site—explored ‘interface’ as the worlding space between self and screen, or identity and being, through nonbinary and creative methods. The Research section of this site currently hosts an introductory text to this previous performative/creative writing project and provides some context for the freewrite stream and their personal creative practice.

At the Digital Democracies Institute they examine the interplay between socio-technic systems and complex cultural conflict, and support in the research and development of responsible experimental machine learning approaches for online publics. They currently operate as a fellow to the DDI’s Data Fluencies Project .

Contact:

email: hannah_holtzclaw@sfu.ca