Last week I participated in my first Humanities Hackathon called CODEX, organized by Jennifer 8. Lee from Plympton, a literary studio, and is now in its third installment. The hackathon took place on the 3rd floor of the prestigious MIT…

I discovered the CODEX Hackathon in a way that seems very fitting in hindsight: a girl I knew in high school (but was never friends with) posted about it on Twitter.

I am a playwright, an occasional poet, and a dabbler in other media. I applied for CODEX…

This past weekend, I attended the CODEX Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab. I love this hackathon because of its interdisciplinary nature — encouraging attendees to create tools around books, library data, or analysis on words. This time around, I joined a…