Hi I’m Mark

Artist, Craftsman, Designer, Connectivist & Technologian Also a digital storytelling & storymapping facilitator

A lifelong learner, retired scientific glassblower, sociologist, and critical digital humanist: I glean meaning from experiences & tell stories.

Featured Work - double click to enlarge all images

After learning to blow glass and studying art and design, I worked thirty years as a professional craftsman, twenty in Santa Clara, California. I don’t call it “Silicon Valley”, I prefer the earlier “Valley of Heart’s Delight.”

I returned to college in 2010 (all designs and images by MCW).

After I graduated, I decided to study Digital Humanities & I began with ds106 to learn to use FOSS digital tools to make my own media.

More than a decade later a group of #ds106 enthusiasts gathered to participate in #ReclaimOpen25, www.reclaimopen.com. Here’s our live website that aggregates our blog posts and #WildDS106 Mastodon toots.

https://combobulating.net

I’m a designer and photographer.

I spent four educational summers in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and attended the Digital Pedagogy Lab twice at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA.

2020