Alex Nathanson
@alexnathanson.bsky.social
Designer, artist, educator, technologist, author of A History of Solar Power Art and Design
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https://www.alexnathanson.com
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Working on some new merch ideas (when I should be doing real work)... Another remixed Pettibon album cover... #merch #solarpunk #sonicyouth #solarpower #solarpostpunk
October 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Working on some new merch ideas (when I should be doing real work)... Another remixed Pettibon album cover... #merch #solarpunk #sonicyouth #solarpower #solarpostpunk
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Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.
Fact checking is not going to do shit.
Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.
We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.
Fact checking is not going to do shit.
Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.
We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.
October 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.
Fact checking is not going to do shit.
Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.
We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.
Fact checking is not going to do shit.
Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.
We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.
Today I was told to censor some text about my research because the department is appealing a funding cut and didn't want evidence of anti-trump activity on anything public facing... We're cooked and we're surrounded by cowards.
October 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Today I was told to censor some text about my research because the department is appealing a funding cut and didn't want evidence of anti-trump activity on anything public facing... We're cooked and we're surrounded by cowards.
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I've been reworking my #solar record player project to include in my upcoming book. It's getting close! Really distorted, but still musical enough to easily know what it should sound like. The circuit and mechanism isn't too bad either! #solarart #solarpunk #solarpower
September 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I've been reworking my #solar record player project to include in my upcoming book. It's getting close! Really distorted, but still musical enough to easily know what it should sound like. The circuit and mechanism isn't too bad either! #solarart #solarpunk #solarpower
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I've been finalizing the projects for my new book of #solarpower art tutorials. This is an optical disc sequencer, included in the #soundart chapter. (The book should be available sometime in 2026)
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I've been finalizing the projects for my new book of #solarpower art tutorials. This is an optical disc sequencer, included in the #soundart chapter. (The book should be available sometime in 2026)
I spent most of August finalizing projects for the sound art chapter of my new #solarpower art tutorials book. This is an optical sequencer - basically a light based drum machine. (Being published by Make, expected sometime in 2026)
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I spent most of August finalizing projects for the sound art chapter of my new #solarpower art tutorials book. This is an optical sequencer - basically a light based drum machine. (Being published by Make, expected sometime in 2026)
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It's up! Rachel Webb Jekanowski @alexnathanson.bsky.social and I muse on what the public humanities might look like if we focused less on bringing high culture to the people & more on helping publics make culture we can study--in this instance, solar-powered art! academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
Solar-Powered Community Art Workshops for Energy Justice: New Directions for the Public Humanities
Abstract. As the energy and environmental humanities stress, the low-carbon transition will require cultural change as well as technological solutions. Yet
academic.oup.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It's up! Rachel Webb Jekanowski @alexnathanson.bsky.social and I muse on what the public humanities might look like if we focused less on bringing high culture to the people & more on helping publics make culture we can study--in this instance, solar-powered art! academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
The Energy Department's closure of the Solar for All program is anti-poor and part of a larger draconian policy agenda rooted in racism. www.dezeen.com/2025/08/14/e...
EPA cancels solar energy program for low-income individuals
The EPA has cancelled the Solar For All program, a $7 billion Biden-era initiative that supported nationwide programs to provide access to solar energy for low and middle-income homeowners
www.dezeen.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Energy Department's closure of the Solar for All program is anti-poor and part of a larger draconian policy agenda rooted in racism. www.dezeen.com/2025/08/14/e...
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I'm recruiting participants for a paid demand response user experience study in NYC! A demand response event is a 4-hour period of time in the summer where electricity usage is high and the utility offers to pay energy consumers to turn off appliances. More info at
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
July 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I'm recruiting participants for a paid demand response user experience study in NYC! A demand response event is a 4-hour period of time in the summer where electricity usage is high and the utility offers to pay energy consumers to turn off appliances. More info at
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I'm teaching 4 #solar power art workshops in NYC this July! More info and tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/solar-powe...
June 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm teaching 4 #solar power art workshops in NYC this July! More info and tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/solar-powe...
👏 Make 👏 Nathan 👏 Fielder 👏 Transportation 👏 Secretary
May 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
👏 Make 👏 Nathan 👏 Fielder 👏 Transportation 👏 Secretary
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Across the five boroughs, our volunteers knocked on more than 86,000 doors... just in the past week.
We've now knocked 430,000+ doors at 1,006 different neighborhood canvasses since we launched our field program in January.
This is truly unprecedented.
We've now knocked 430,000+ doors at 1,006 different neighborhood canvasses since we launched our field program in January.
This is truly unprecedented.
May 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Across the five boroughs, our volunteers knocked on more than 86,000 doors... just in the past week.
We've now knocked 430,000+ doors at 1,006 different neighborhood canvasses since we launched our field program in January.
This is truly unprecedented.
We've now knocked 430,000+ doors at 1,006 different neighborhood canvasses since we launched our field program in January.
This is truly unprecedented.
In Trump 1, my go-to mantra was the Brecht quote "As crimes pile up they become invisible." For Trump 2, this Adorno quote about Brecht is a strong contender
April 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
In Trump 1, my go-to mantra was the Brecht quote "As crimes pile up they become invisible." For Trump 2, this Adorno quote about Brecht is a strong contender
I don't agree with everything Fain says, but we desperately need a worker-centered justice-oriented political machine in this country. As a UAW member I'm glad to hear him defend Mahmoud. If youre looking for a different perspective on tariffs, it's worth a listen. www.youtube.com/live/6xVVzvR...
Our Economy, Our Country, Our Union
YouTube video by UAW
www.youtube.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I don't agree with everything Fain says, but we desperately need a worker-centered justice-oriented political machine in this country. As a UAW member I'm glad to hear him defend Mahmoud. If youre looking for a different perspective on tariffs, it's worth a listen. www.youtube.com/live/6xVVzvR...
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More than 1,800 academics, including art historians and art professors, have committed to boycotting Columbia University in an open letter denouncing the school’s compliance with Trump administration crackdowns on pro-Palestinian dissent.
Art Scholars Pledge to Boycott Columbia University
Art historians and professors are among the hundreds who signed an open letter denouncing the school’s capitulation to Trump’s demands.
hyperallergic.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
More than 1,800 academics, including art historians and art professors, have committed to boycotting Columbia University in an open letter denouncing the school’s compliance with Trump administration crackdowns on pro-Palestinian dissent.
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"Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, '...Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability.' [We are compelled] to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university."
Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
lithub.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, '...Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability.' [We are compelled] to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university."
I made this functioning solar panel mosaic in 2017 and barely exhibited it, so I'm particularly happy for it to be in this year's Solar Biennale at Mudac.
Every time I return to it my feelings about it change. Unfortunately, it feels more relevant than ever.
Every time I return to it my feelings about it change. Unfortunately, it feels more relevant than ever.
March 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I made this functioning solar panel mosaic in 2017 and barely exhibited it, so I'm particularly happy for it to be in this year's Solar Biennale at Mudac.
Every time I return to it my feelings about it change. Unfortunately, it feels more relevant than ever.
Every time I return to it my feelings about it change. Unfortunately, it feels more relevant than ever.
Grab a copy of my book A History of Solar Power Art and Design! Student, educator, and activist discounts available!
Book sale!!! Are you a student, educator, or climate activist? We're offering a 30% discount on paper back copies of A History of Solar Power Art and Design by @alexnathanson.bsky.social Email or DM us to request a code
#solar #solarpunk #solarart #climate #ecoart #soundart #mediaart #wearables #diy
#solar #solarpunk #solarart #climate #ecoart #soundart #mediaart #wearables #diy
March 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Grab a copy of my book A History of Solar Power Art and Design! Student, educator, and activist discounts available!
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
NY State should take Trump Tower by eminent domain and turn it into refugee housing.
February 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
NY State should take Trump Tower by eminent domain and turn it into refugee housing.
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That's an expensive game so they really hate this car
all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood
February 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
That's an expensive game so they really hate this car
Guest lecturing at Wash U today!
February 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Guest lecturing at Wash U today!
In a hotel in St Louis and just learned they broadcast protests on CSPAN?! Biomedical grad students researching diseases in disadvantaged communities who had their funding cut are out in these streets fighting Elon Musk.
February 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
In a hotel in St Louis and just learned they broadcast protests on CSPAN?! Biomedical grad students researching diseases in disadvantaged communities who had their funding cut are out in these streets fighting Elon Musk.