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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 1d

‪I have always so deeply admired Dr. Jennifer Jacobs and the amazing, critical work the Expressive Computation Lab is doing @UCSB's Media Arts & Technology Dept.… what an honor & a dream come true to share my work with them! 😭❣️‬

Dr. Jennifer Jacobs and Shm Almeda in front of a projector that reads The Design of Technology by and for Artistic Worlds in the Expressive Computation Lab space at UC Santa Barbara.

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Canvas of Kings @mightofmerchants.bsky.social · 3d

In my spare time, I am working on a mapmaking tool #dnd

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 4d

my biggest personal takeaways:
1. feeling affirmed in my decision to shift my research towards quality data work *before* AI model work, and centering quality community work *before* that
2. feeling more empowered to call out AI-accelerated societal ills

really so valuable 😭❤️

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 4d

my notes on Terry Winograd & Lucy Suchman's conversation @stanfordhai.bsky.social yesterday! such an honor and a privilege to hear them speak on AI, data, our roles in the world as computer professionals, technology designers, humans…

tysm Nava & Stanford HCI for organizing!

Nava Haghighi, Terry Winograd and Lucy Suchman sitting at a table with notes on their conversation around them. Theres a lot more text here than I can put into an image description; please let me know if you want all the content as a text document!

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 6d

uc santa cruz is very beautiful ✨🌲🌳🌊

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 7d

I'm at Stanford & UC Santa Cruz this week, UC Santa Barbara & UC San Diego next week, UCLA & Pomona the week following! friends (present & future) please feel invited to reach out if you want to meet up with me or my rabbits. 🐇🐇 😋

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 7d

I'm on an hci research / personal mesearch tour — road-tripping, giving talks, and making friends across southern california! Thank you soooo much to Stanford HCI for having me today!

shm in front of a green and orange dlide that says the design of technology by and for artistic worlds

Shm in front of a slide that says 2 wicked artistic support problems- 1. The banality of creative labor- artmaking requires a great deal of not so artistic tasks

Shm in front of some iconically stanford esque architecture

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 14d

so much exciting work to be done!

shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 15d

we got korean bbq to heal our fomo
" #uist2025 "

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 17d

‪omg artkrit zine !! 🐛🎨🖌️✨‬
‪https://jingyi.me/static/artkrit-zine.pdf‬ #UIST2025

shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 17d

the entire Creative Design with GenAI session on Wed @ 11AM looks amazing — as a digital artist myself I'm so excited to see how this work ft. ArtKrit deeply engages with our processes & needs, + to see that recognized with a well-deserved Best Paper award!
programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr...

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 17d

the entire Creative Design with GenAI session on Wed @ 11AM looks amazing — as a digital artist myself I'm so excited to see how this work ft. ArtKrit deeply engages with our processes & needs, + to see that recognized with a well-deserved Best Paper award!
programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr...

shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 17d

everyone's talking @ how LLMs are changing programming — what programs can get written, who will be writing them.

nobody has taught me more about this than Tim Aveni in his work on Ply.

try the demo 2nite; see the talk in the Programming session tomorrow @ 9AM! programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr...

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 17d

visit the Midjourney Storytelling Lab at the #UIST2025 demo session & try Dramamancer, a delightfully novel interactive narrative system!
I had a blast using it to craft a dynamic story experience, wherein you can roleplay my dream… of being at the UIST demo session... 😝

A visual novel like display where a fox in conference outfit talks on the phone to a shiba inu. In the text box, a Hedgehog researcher says hurriedly adjusting fheir tiny glasses, oh sorry, can't chat! Im rushing to try the Midjourney Storytelling Lab demos before the line gets too long-- have you seen Dr. Wendy Macaw's interface work? Amazing!

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 17d

I am not in Korea at #UIST2025 (😭) but some of the most brilliant people I know are! ✨🇰🇷
here's a few things I'm bummed to miss, and that YOU do NOT want to miss...! 🧵

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 20d

new hair new profile pic! 💚🧡

its shm with green and orange hair and their colorful painted blazer!

Shm's baybayin necklace (it says "walang suko" meaning no surrender in tagalog") and their I 🧡 HCI bracelet!

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 20d

I'm so so grateful and lucky to have undergraduate research mentees who end up teaching and inspiring me so much! 😭

shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 20d

so incredibly proud of sophia liu (sophiawliu.com) for leading this piece, and giving an awesome presentation (that you can watch!) at ACM Hypertext -- Friction & (user) Agency are values we feel are really needed as we design for a future inundated by (AI) Agents 🩵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIqj...

36th acm conference on hypertext and social media, blue sky award, to agency among agents designing with hypetextual friction in the algorithmic web !

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 21d

1/ Exciting paper by @sh1m.bsky.social & Sophia Liu 🔥
“hypertext systems emphasize provenance, associative thinking, and user-driven meaning-making, while algorithmic systems tend to obscure process and flatten participation” arxiv.org/abs/2507.235...

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 21d

OH.... IT WAS COMMON CRAWL....
I promise I have learned my lesson about adding robots.txt to my website this time I promise

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 21d

so whoever internet archived my art portfolio site in april, before it got nuked by Adobe irrecoverably revoking my student license… i owe you a big one! thank you SO much. I promise I have learned my lesson about proprietary software this time I promise
web.archive.org/web/20250422...

Shm Garanganao Almeda

fine artist. fan artist. computer scientist.

web.archive.org

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 25d

disgusting, horrific, beyond shameful
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/09/12/u...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names of students, staff with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

The feds are investigating alleged antisemitism on college campuses. Judith Butler, a well-known Jewish professor whose name was given, called it a ‘McCarthy era’ move.

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 26d

nodus tollens

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Sep 9

AI Nüshu has been nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica Digital Humanity Award 🥰 #arselectronica
One last item ticked off my art wishlist before 30.
This project lets AI learn from Chinese women — and invent their own secret language.
calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi... #arselectronica

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 27d

while moving I found my very first motivational miku, drawn under the to-do list for my first full paper as a PhD student!

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