ABOUT
Lizz Thabet is an artist and programmer excited about homemade internets and technology skill-share. Her work touches interactive software, open-source tools, skill-share workshops, wearable costumes, and strange drawings. Tinkering with digital networks is a way for her to build personal and social practices of computing, as well as invest in alternative infrastructures that are both material and ideological.
Over the past few years, Lizz has given workshops and written guides for creative communities on self-hosting websites using privacy-centric tools. They approach teaching as a way to do ideas out loud with others and orient their work towards investing in forms of collective power rather then individual ethical choice.
In their day job, Lizz builds tools for other programmers with an eye towards open-source projects and accessible websites.
Lizz Thabet holds a BFA in photography and visual culture from Rochester Institute of Technology. They have studied with Triple Canopy, Tech Learning Collective, the School for Poetic Computation, and Collective Action School. From 2017 to 2021, Lizz served on Women's Studio Workshop's board of directors. Most recently, Lizz has published work with The HTML Review, Summer of Protocols, Welcome to My Homepage residency, and Plexus Projects, as well as taught workshops at NYU's ITP Camp and Hackers On Planet Earth.