Hello there! Thank you for your interest in contacting me. 🙂
If you want to collaborate with me on a project, commission art or designs, hire me or inquire about full-time, part-time, contract, consultation, mentoring or freelance opportunities, sponsor or gift me money, material or immaterial goods, commodities, services, experiences, housing, stipends or honorary academic titles, please feel free to reach out to me through any of the platforms listed below.
You can also reach me at my personal e-mail address: erin.list@outlook.com
(as long as it hasn’t been clogged by spam and other malicious forms of information)
💰 Want to support me and/or my projects financially? You can do so here on ko-fi, or buy some of my art via my fourthwall shop.
The type of projects I can see myself doing and getting involved with include, but aren’t limited to:
- 🎨 Drawings, paintings, illustrations, 3D Models such as:
- Scientific illustrations and visualizations (e.g. of a newly discovered dinosaur or other extinct animal species)
- Visual instructions and information graphics
- Painting murals or graffiti in the real, tangible world
- 🎨 Concept art and visual development (for e.g. games, movies, film or animation, etc.)
- 🎮 Game development (digital or video games, or analog games like board and card games)
- Software development
- Maps & cartography (for e.g. role-playing games and books, fantasy novels, etc.)
- Book and album covers
- Worldbuilding (creating lore and other elements of a fictional world)
- Books (e.g. illustrating children’s books)
- Character designs
- Icon, emojis, and pictogram sets
- Comics [full or parts of it, like layout, inks, colors, lettering, cover art]
- Invention and design of products, tools and gadgets that help marginalized and/or disabled people
- e.g. designs that can be used by both sighted people and people who are blind or visually impaired
- Getting rid of hostile architecture (before I start doing it myself gu)
- Holding a workshop (on e.g. something art & design related)
- 🥁 Joining a band or be part of a live performance or studio recording (as e.g. drummer or percussionist)
- Minimum requirements: Queer-feminist, LGBTQIA+ and autism friendly, anti-racist
- Acting/starring in a stage play, movie, historical re-enactment, advertisement, etc. or some other similar form of media
- Translating and/or localizing an existing work of literature or other type of media (German -> English, or vice versa)
- Projects where I get to systemize all day long (look for if-and-then patterns, search for good form [as Papanek put it])
- Lots of things no stupid aritifical intelligence agent can do, like creating or inventing something completely original from scratch. (as original as it can get anyway in a world with so many things created an invented already)
- 🌍 Make products, processes and buildings more energy efficient
See something in my portfolio that you think would already fit nicely for a project of yours? (e.g. an illustration that would make for a nice album cover, or a character design that would fit in your game or story)
Feel free to ask if I’d let you use it for such a purpose, and we can talk about it.
Asking is free and doesn’t cost you a cent. If you expect me to do any actual work or labour for free though, as for instance, unpaid “art tests”, well, no, I won’t. Similar things goes for unpaid internships or any kind of exploitation of my time and resources. My portfolio should suffice to show you what I’m capable off. Shame on you by the way if you engage in such practices and exploit other people and their labour this way. Please change your ways of thinking, acting, and how you conduct business, or leave whatever industry you’re in and do something else with your life.
I also generally expect to be properly credited for my work. (Which means at the very least including my name in the credits of the respective project (which so far hasn’t always been the case), even if it is “just” a poster or an infographic. In the case of scientific illustrations for any publications, I expect to be named as the artist in the paper or as co-author [This is from my experience not common practice in either just some scientific fields, or academia in general, which to me is a sad display and reminder of how the sciences and the arts have at some point in the past lost connection with each other, and overspecialized too much into disparate fields])
🛑 As a general disclaimer, I refuse to collaborate or work with (and particularly for) companies, institutions or people that sell or produce products that are harmful to human health and well-being, promote discrimination, or disregard the (natural) planetary environment . This also includes:
- (neo-)fascists and their supporters
- (neo-)nazis and their supporters
- (neo-)imperialists and their supporters
- totalitarians
- kleptocrats
- (br)oligarchs
- autocrats
- absolutists
- (neo-)colonialists
- (violent) right-wing extremists
- centrists who think that being “unpolitical” or supporting the status quo is the way to go (it is impossible to be human and simultaneously unpolitical)
- (violent) left-wing extremists
- terrorists
- dictators and/or their followers
- warmongers
- genocide and ethnic cleansing deniers (Holocaust, Holodomor, Armenian genocide, just to name a few)
- (human made) climate change deniers
- Ridiculous conspiracy theorists
- capitalists
- the gambling industry (unless it is to get rid of it; I don’t like it and I think it sucks. Mostly just money being shuffled around)
- the tobacco industry (unless it is to get rid of it)
- monopolists
- corrupt politicians
- upholders of the patriarchy (in general)
- sexists (whether against women, men, or other genders)
- mysoginists
- rapists
- racists
- antisemites
- islamophobes
- racial supremacists
- zionists
- social darwinists
- eugenicists
- homophobes
- transphobes
- xenophobes
- ableists
- ageists
- TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists)
- anti-feminists
- male supremacists
- female supremacists
- narcissists
- pathological liars
- bullies
- hypocrites
- chauvinists (whether male, female, non-binary, or any other gender)
- Steve Jobs worshipers
- Elon Musk worshipers
- patriots
- nationalists
- intentional plagiarists
- any studio, company, collective, or institution that engages in workplace practices like crunch
- any studio, company, collective, or institution that doesn’t pay its interns or employees fair and adequate wages
- any studio, company, collective, or instituion that posts ghost jobs
- companies or institutions that engage in greenwashing, pinkwashing, rainbowwashing, and/or fake diversity and inclusion
- people who are nice and friendly in front of the camera or other public facing media, but dishonest and mean behind the scenes
- people who are incapable of admitting that they made a mistake just to “save face”
- people who are “too proud” to genuinely say sry for having treated another person like shit
- people who are, without very good reason, unfriendly to service personnel
- people who are too arrogant to say “I don’t know” when being asked a question that they genuinely don’t know the answer to (in particular those that instead concoct a plethora of lies and/or misinformation)
- people who don’t credit others’ work or the work and contributions of their team
- people who make money off of the misfortune of other people
- people who deliberately spread misinformation, disinformation or hateful propaganda
- people who keep confusing opinion and fact
- people who are “only in it for the money” and completely disregard other factors
- people who are in it to exert power and control over others
- people who are completely oblivious to their own privileges and don’t check those every now and then
- teachers, professors, or other so-called “educators” who talk derogatorily to or about their own students (generally speaking) [have you forgotten that you too were once a student?]
- any person who systematically, knowingly, and/or intentionally abuses their power to oppress, exploit, or mistreat a person, persons, people or animals
- people who deliberately build dark patterns into their games or products
If you are such a person, please only contact me if you want to give me money, material or immaterial goods or services without expecting anything in return. I promise I’ll put them to good use. I don’t care how many academic titles you have either (this is in particular relevant in title-fetishistic Austria, my home country), or who your parents are or were (in regards to their societal status), or what “grand projects” you have accomplished in the past, or any other such reasons that make you think you’re something “better” than anyone else (what a narrow, limited, binary and hierarchical way of thinking is that anyway?). Also, take some time to think and reflect about the consequences of your actions and your position of power inside a complex human social hierarchy network that has developed over centuries, millenia, or just a couple years. Perhaps there is still some hope left for your soul.
I also have (or have had) an online presence on the platforms listed below, but currently don’t use them much in an active manner, for various reasons. In general, you can thank the broligarchs and technocrats for that, the malignant or reckless (mis)use of technologies like computer algorithms (such as bots), greed for ever more monetary profit, the overall way that people have conversations on these platforms, and other abuses of power in connection to digital social media platforms.
While it’s technically possible to reach out to me there, you will likely not get a response anytime soon, as I’m not checking those platforms very often.