ariel hahn
always many things

a rectangular photograph of a tan driveway, shadowed by a leafy plant with a the shadow of a hand holding a phone in the bottom left corner.

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I am an artist, archivist, and digital librarian interested in questions of time, history, power, technology, and the natural world. Currently, I work with the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA, or Metro) as a Data Librarian.

In 2019, I received an MLIS from the Department of Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles where I was an organizer with README, a student group that advocated for digital rights within libraries, archives, and information work. In 2018-2019, I was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for the UCLA Community Archives Lab and worked with multiple Los Angeles area community archives. From 2020-2023, I worked at the Cal Poly Pomona University Library as their Data Management Librarian.

My additional professional experience as an archival consultant and freelance producer ranges from film and audio production to grant writing, web development, research, and archival processing for artists, writers, publishers, and non-profits. And generally, I like to think about analog media, queer socialist futures, networks of plant decay, and the transformative possibilities of digital tools.

This website is an archive of sorts, a record of my work and experiences in graduate school. A majority of the content throughout is no longer edited or maintained. <3 AH 2023


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UCLA is a land grant institution. As a student of this university and local resident, I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands).

This territory acknowledgement and accompanying pronunciation has been adapted from and is attributed to the UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department.