Democracy Machine Public Programming

Phase III: Meet The 2024 Democracy Machine Fellows

Democracy Machine Public Programming — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 21:16:36 GMT

As Eyebeam Staff, we are tremendously excited to welcome the third cohort of The Democracy Machine, our multi-year anti-disciplinary art & activism program shaped and led by artists. This new group of visionary artists—five New York City-based fellows and five others currently based in California, India, Iran, and Taiwan–have recently started their six-month digital fellowship, and through this period, the artists will focus on building alternatives to the abusive technologies that propel harm in oppressed communities. Eyebeam will support the fellows in realizing projects prioritizing human well-being and agency, developing tech focused on decolonization, care, and healing the digital divide.

Eyebeam introduced these artists with a panel on March 15th, 2024, archived here for the future.

This group arrives at Eyebeam with clear-hearted and daring visions of self-determination and interdependence. Their projects counter, bypass, and create fissures in dominant power’s oppressive infrastructures of bias, surveillance, and censorship. Through evocative archives and memory work, through counter-mythologies and community-owned digital networks, Eyebeam’s Democracy Machine Fellows expand the possibilities of contemporary life alongside and against technology and its uses.

Eyebeam is excited to share with you our enthusiasm for this group of artists, and they are thrilled to share their work with you all.

Transcript: https://desk.undersco.re/s/nTLDZaGsfMreCPq
Resources and links shared in chat: https://desk.undersco.re/s/Yz4cx79weQXqjfZ

Phase III: 2024 Democracy Machine Open Call Info Session, 09 27 2023

Democracy Machine Public Programming — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:13:44 GMT

Please find the audio-only recording, chat log, closed captions, and FAQ Sheet from today’s information session hyperlinked below. Feel free to share this video with friends and colleagues who were not able to attend today.

Audio-only recording: https://cloud.undersco.re/s/fn6ZnrL7FD6Y3RT
Chat log: https://cloud.undersco.re/s/7nwESBrriDQX96J
Closed captions: https://cloud.undersco.re/s/PJfxegjZfcit7Hq
FAQ Sheet: https://cloud.undersco.re/s/cPGfaKNDxiBfM6S

Here’s another sharable link to the recording, in case you have any difficulties opening the links above:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/WojSfodrDSDYoa-h2ShnnVWEphIO19KWlRtlkenBOaZcVS9i9-EWOAL2DHRuGvkZ.EUDTDsGbllt6VOhm?startTime=1695837660000

Passcode: uZ1Q=MYd

The deadline is October 1 @ 11:59 PM EDT.

Apply here: https://bit.ly/2024OpenCall

Phase II, Radical Experiments: Zeina Baltagi in conversation with Chris Christion & Jessica Wimbley

Democracy Machine Public Programming — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:23:30 GMT

The artist spotlights their work addressing their experiences within the intersection of access, decolonization of the self and identity. Zeina Baltagi in discussion with artists and curators Jessica Wimbley and Chris Christion. As a curatorial team, Wimbley/Christion developed a series of curatorial projects contextualizing the visual arts within “biomythography” @biomythart.

Phase II: Meet The Democracy Machine Fellows Day 1 - Shawn Reilly, Yogesh Maitreya, and Astrid Gonzalez

Democracy Machine Public Programming — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:57:41 GMT

Monday, March 27: 10:00 – 11:00 am EDT

For the full experience, visit https://open.eyebeam.org
Transcript: https://desk.undersco.re/s/rEekAW46DKZGjrT

Themes: Storytelling, Language, Decolonization, Rethinking History, Care

Moderator: Adela Licona

Artists: Shawn Reilly, Yogesh Maitreya, Astrid González

Join the free online conversation with educator, designer, and cultural organizer Shawn Reilly; poet, translator, essayist, and publisher Yogesh Maitreya; and multidisciplinary artist Astrid González; moderated by Dr. Adela C. Licona on the new Open Eyebeam platform. The artists and moderator will discuss storytelling activism, language as an identity tool, the impact of colonial systems, care as decolonial practice, and examining history as a tool of domination.

Phase II: Meet The Democracy Machine Fellows Day 4 - Zeina Baltagi, Elizabeth Pérez, and Daniela Ortiz

Democracy Machine Public Programming — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:56:58 GMT

For the full experience, visit https://open.eyebeam.org

Wednesday, March 29: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Themes: Storytelling, Language, Decolonization, Rethinking History

Moderator: Xin Xin

Artists: Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Subash Thebe Limbu, Ryan Christopher Clarke

Tune into the free online conversation with Mapuche artist and a member of the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü and Yene Revista, Paula Baeza Pailamilla; Yakthung (Limbu) artist from eastern Nepal “quantumly” based in Newa Nation (Kathmandu) and London, Subash Thebe Limbu; tonal geologist from the Northern Gulf Coast who “notices the passage of time” as both a trained sedimentologist and artist-researcher Ryan Christopher Clarke as they discuss storytelling, language, decolonization, rethinking History with moderator and interdisciplinary artist Xin Xin.

Phase II: Meet The Democracy Machine Fellows Day 2 - Cy X, Nushin Yazdani, and Peter Wu+

Democracy Machine Public Programming — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:43:28 GMT

Tuesday, March 28: 4:00 – 5:00 pm EDT

Themes: Future Tech, Solidarity, Decolonization, Rethinking History, Care

For the full experience, visit https://open.eyebeam.org

Live caption backup stream here: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=Eyebeam

Moderator: Sruti Suryanarayanan
Artists: Cy X, Nushin Yazdani, Peter Wu+
How does the future of technology, solidarity action, decolonial practices, care, and history-making intersect? Join the free online conversation with queer agender love influencer, earth tender, and cyber witch cy x; transformation designer, artist, and AI design researcher Nushin Yazdani; LA-based technology artist Peter Wu+; moderated by Tamizh American craftsperson and writer Sruti Suryanarayanan.