The below film is in the spirit of and in response to Jacqueline Rhodes\u2019 \u201cthink-practice\u201d in \u201cBecoming Utopias: Toward a Queer Rhetoric of Instantiation<\/a>\u201d as well as Rick Wysocki\u2019s \u201cThe World Outside the (Web)Text<\/a>\u201d think-practice on his editorial work for the Making Future Matters<\/i><\/a> keynote webtext. Wysocki\u2019s think-practice was prompted by questioning \u201cwhat other ways the body could be made visible in digital rhetorical production or, in my case, digital editorial labor.\u201d He settled on \u201ca snapshot of a becoming\u201d through screenshots and video of his digital editing and composing process even as he recognized the incompleteness of the documentation\u2014a method we adopt here.<\/p>\n

Our project, \u201cA Watson Think-Practice on Digital Embodiment,\u201d attempts to document our experiences at the Watson Conference and our editorial labor as we worked to curate and publish reviews of the conference sessions. The think-practice film, created using Adobe Spark, purposely combines our individual footage into a single, linear product to represent the highly collaborative nature of conferencing, in general, and our digital editorial labor, in particular. Ultimately, though this film provides only a small glimpse into such experiences, it is a call for more transparency in labor and in production.<\/p>\n

Both this think-practice film and Wysocki\u2019s response essay speak to the question of how can we convey to outside audiences the value of, logic behind, and labor of digital texts? For us, answering this question is not just an attention to embodiment when creating the digital artifact, but attention to embodiment in the gathering of content for the digital artifact. It is both creation and curation.<\/p>\n