thinking about the might of the pen
Projects
*Editor's open call: twitter.com/fieldednotes/s…
(& a shout out from Ken Liu! twitter.com/kyliu99/status…)
Solicited and selected fiction, poetry, visual art for a magazine examining technology's role in shaping our collective future
2020-2022
*Editorial themes: reading.supply/@mathemakitten…
Wrote and edited for an anthology of nonfiction written by and for the North American Sino diaspora
*More context: techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/msc…
2020, the year of post-irony & absurdist performance art
A remnant of a past life that I think a lot about, still: computer vision-based features for digital inventory & robotic safety
Second-largest digital space for the Asian diaspora
Press:
nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame…
vice.com/en/article/akz…
qz.com/2132340/how-to-…
slate.com/technology/201…
nytimes.com/2018/12/11/wor…
Edited and produced, on a M-F publication schedule, both web and print versions of the News section of the largest circulating print product serving the greater Palouse/Inland Northwest, a region that is a news desert
I wrote, edited, produced, or some combination of the three, for 130+ editions of the paper.
Edited and assigned 30 multimedia stories about community sports organizations working with underserved youth over the course of a summer
Mentored and edited 10 interns' summer enterprise reporting projects
Side Projects
Co-wrote and edited the manifesto/final statement of a performance art project on Twitter commenting on VC hype cycles, that raised donations for grassroots organizations serving Black communities
Executed on an emergent, collective social strategy with 59 other co-conspirators
On-going; recognized in the 2020 Arena Annual
Awards
Reporting package recognized as the best general news reporting at large schools across the nation by the SPJ for coverage of administrative budget cuts
Article here: dailyevergreen.com/22084/news/wsu…
*for the same year, the overall paper also ranked first nationally; this was the year I was one of the core news reporters, then assistant news editor (and what an incredible staff it was to be a part of)
Exhibitions
Poem selected for a juried video installation in tribute to the artist's life and work, on view June - December 2023
exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/in…
bernicebingopencallatasianartmuseum.artcall.org/
Project on alt-text ekphrastic selfies and data sovereignty, produced in collaboration with Claudia Larcher on AI, artistic agency, bias, through ZERO1's international exchange program
"Lossless compression is like time travel, the ideal of a clean, neat, return to a past cleaved and grafted back onto the present."
Exhibited "Southeastern Expansion," a collection of work on climate/natural disaster, the mythos of California, migration to Florida, Transcontinental Railroad laborers & the contemporary space race to Mars
Wrote the statement for the group show & zine
Work Experience
My container for consultancy / collaborative projects
Research outputs: are.na/jess-ica
Creative outputs: jyz.glitch.me/work.html
Past clients include Inverse Magazine, Living Room Light Exchange, Gray Area, ZERO1 (Impact Art AT), Usage AI, Chainlist, Antimatter Systems
Oversaw the @gitcoin Twitter, experimenting with and formalizing the account voice, social media strategies, cross-org collaborative writing processes
Grew the account from 118k to 125k followers over the course of my first month, doubling social media metrics between Grants Round 14 and Grants Round 15
Edit case studies, educational blog posts, social copy
Partner with product, grants, partnerships to craft social strategy and copy for respective launches, initiatives, and other events
Soft launched @gitcoinpassport
*See LinkedIn for Industry Experience (TM)
*An extended reflection: jessicazhou.github.io/ & jessicusp.wordpress.com/2021/09/29/tow…
Past stops: Twitter, Microsoft, MSCHF, OpenAI, Eternal, Bumblebee Spaces
Though I no longer work full-time as an engineer, my engineering career has informed my writing and research practice, and I'm excited to engage with engineering, programming, coding, et al, in more personal, tender, and creative forms
*SPJ national winner for general news reporting in 2017, regional finalist for breaking news in 2016
*Active contributor to staffs nationally recognized in SPJ's Mark of Excellence "Best All-Around Daily Newspaper" categories in 2017 (national winner) and 2016 (national runner up)
Print examples in link to archive & twitter.com/fieldednotes/s…
Directed, wrote and edited day-to-day campus, city and regional news
Designed news section layout for the largest circulating print product in the region
Mentored and helped retain new reporters, coordinated reporters in on-the-ground breaking news coverage
Speaking
Gave a talk to an upper-division / graduate art class with the Data/Network Sanctuary collective
That one time I presented to Jack Dorsey / presented on contributions to Twitter's anti-spam/abuse engine, Botmaker
Writing
Features
Spoke about internet ecosystems, my safety operations work at OpenAI, the labor of moderation for Subtle Asian Dating, platform hegemony feels, "landlord energy"
Spoke about MMORPGs, the difficulties of managing moderation at scale, hate speech amplification on social networks in an article about Second Life
Spoke about conservative student leaders at Washington State University, and one leader's involvement in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville (13:30 - 25:16)