Explore the journey of Digital Knowledge Center fellows through their personal reflections and documentation of their fellowship projects.
Most Recent Fellows Posts
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BCR-ABL Part 2: 3D Molecular Representations
In my last post I went over how I edited my BCR-ABL model in Fusion360 but here I will discuss the printing process. I have now returned to using the multi-extruder with some new tools and settings which I will discuss later on. Spoiler alert, IT WORKED! New Filament… One of the things that I was unable to do at the start of this project was use soluble filament for support structures. I had originally used a PVA filament from Polymaker which has a printing temperature of 215-225°C and costed around 60$ for a 0.75kg wheel. We have since upgraded…
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Andrew’s Video Essay Wrapped
Well, here we are. This project stared in May on a whim and prayer thanks to this one show I saw in D.C., and now I am putting together an actual project that has my face and voice behind it! I want to start this by saying a big thank you to everyone who inspired this project, funded this project, and took time to help me throughout the process of writing and filming. The statistics are here! A whole script is here with some reflection editing to follow in January, plus a special surprise that I will later talking about.…
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BCR-ABL: 3D Molecular Representations
Hey everyone, this will be a short post today with another planned to go live by the end of the week. I left off giving a sneak peek into the next modeling project I planned with BCR-ABL. This post will go over the process I went through to edit this structure in Fusion360. Firstly, the STL files for BCR-ABL and Gleevec (Imatinib) were obtained from the link provided. Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a cancer of white blood cells. In CML, white blood cells divide uncontrollably due to an overactive tyrosine kinase protein called BCR-ABL, which results from a chromosomal…
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Andrew’s Video Essay (The Lost Post)
Over the shuffle of my birthday, Thanksgiving, and the whole world, I forgot to update with one important post. The State of the Video will be the next post directly after this. Thanks! I just did an interview with the DKC podcast about my inspiration coming into this project, what made me nervous about this project, and what I want people to learn out of this project. I talk a lot about the past, the vanishing act of documentation about queer art, and if we should eat candy if the candy represents someone else’s lover. I have a horrible memory,…
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Andrew’s Video Essay: A New Turn
Sadly, I do have to start this post differently than the other ones. This project is an inherently political project. This project stems from both love and hatred for the theatre community that built me up since age eight to ultimately reject me for who I was at twenty-three. There was a rejection for who I was in the context of politics. Donald Trump ran a campaign based on policies to get rid of trans* people in the public eye (banning trans women from sports, stripping our history from school curriculums and libraries across the United States) and getting rid…