Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti (they/them)

Leadership in experimental & digital humanities research infrastructure & community-building.

Photo of the side of a large metal printing press, with a "this machine kills fascists" sticker on it. Visible above are the printer rollers and bed, which are both colored with a gradient of ink from red to pale orange to green.
Vandercook letterpress printer
Photo of metal printing press type, arranged into a poem
Letterpress printing with metal type
Photo of wooden type arranged into the words "Zine Bakery biscuits!", except backwards as that's how type looks.
Letterpress printing with wood type
Photo of the words "Zine Bakery biscuits!" letterpress-printed in crimson red, on a background of gradient-colored green-yellow-orange paper.
Letterpress print
Lasercut wood that says "queer bibliography " and explains font was made by Erin Moore from a 1971 handlettered publication
Laser woodburning
Photo of a full-size-skull (front half) made of translucent resin, with embedded ramen noodle block in the brain area, and chatter teeth in the teeth area, held up to the sun so the light shines through the translucent resin from the back.
Resin casting
Photo of several incongruous items arranged neatly on a cutting board: a large kitchen knife, a packet of ramen noodles, a round of dried ramen boodles that has been cut in two, a small screwdriver, 2 medium-size googly eyes, a life-size plastic chatter teeth with the chatter mechanism removed and laid next to it
Prep for resin casting
Photo of a hand-inked minizine about lasercutting, on white paper with black ink and several black-and-white collaged photos
Zine making
Photo of a person in a dark room, wearing a necklace of TTRPG transparent resin dice lit up from inside with LEDs in various colors
Resin casting & electronics
Photo of a necklace of TTRPG transparent resin dice lit up from inside with LEDs in various colors, laid out on a desk.
Resin casting & electronics
Photo of a transparent resin d20 die close up, with silver wires leading into it where an LED bulb is embedded inside the transparent resin
Resin casting & electronics
Photo of a string of multicolored LED fairy lights making 5 translucent-white resin dice molds glow in various colors
Resin casting & electronics
Photo of materials for the Ghost Books project artfully arranged on a floor, including a swirl of blue LEDs with silicone diffusion making them look like neon lights, superglue, acrylic and glass cut to size to be assembled into a rectangular-prism/book shape with smoothe or crenellated edges, and one of the books I'm basing the initial prototype on (10 PRINT) because of it's interesting blue and white patterned cover.
Electronics, acrylic, glass book-adjacent making
Example themed reading card deck, prepared for the ACH 2023 conference's #DHmakes (digital humanities making) session. An open plastic playing card case holds a playing-card-style card with information about the "#DHMakes at #ACH2023" project governing the readings chosen for inclusion in the deck; next to the case is a fanned-out pile of playing-card-style cards showing tech, GLAM, and social justice zine titles such as "Kult of the Cyber Witch #1" and "Handbook for the Activist Archivist"; on the top of the fanned pile you can see a whole card. The whole card is white with black text; the title "Design Justice for Action" is in large print at the top of the card, followed by a list of the zine's creators (Design Justice Network, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Una Lee, Victoria Barnett, Taylor Stewart), the hashtags "#DHMakes #ACH2023, and a black square QR code (which links to an online version of that zine).
Themed reading card decks
My sketches and notes planning the layout of the Mini Book List Printer's acrylic case. A photo of a spiral-bound sketchbook, white paper with black ink. The page is full of notes and drawings, including sketches of a simplified Mac Classic-style computer case, as well as the various pieces of acrylic that would need to be cut to assemble the case and their dimensions. The notes contain ideas about how to assemble the case (e.g. does it need air holes?), supplies I needed to procure for the project, and note working out how to cut and adhere various case piece edges to achieve the desired final case dimensions.
Sketching prototype Mac Classic acrylic case
Screenshot of a digital grid of photos of zine front covers; it's very colorful, and around 200 zine covers are shown
Zine cover quilt
Photo of Amanda Wyatt Visconti presenting virtually at the DH 2024 conference
Presenting maker work at the DH 2024 conference