Humans.Tech.Ethics

Humanizing technology is a priority for many of our artists. Our community of researchers, technologists, and artists invent around questions of how to engage with technology’s potentials in order to open up ways in which it can be of service to both people and all beings on the planet.

Indigenous Technology

Our community oriented artists connect to their heritage and identities as a point of reference. These artists look at the myths guiding technological progress including the stories that have been left out and need to be revisited and rescued, as well as previous stories civilizations told themselves about technology. See the latest below.

Decolonizing Digital

We invest in visionary artists who are addressing the impact of colonial systems and re-imagine technology made with new social values. See the latest below.

Hybrid Engagement

We have pivoted to a digital-first, hybrid format and are building robust, highly engaged online/offline programs widely distributed to diverse practitioners and audiences.

Exiting Surveillance Capitalism

An urgent conversation continues to unfold around big data and its misrepresentation of social realities. We support artists concerned with this dark frontier of power in order to exit, and replace, surveillance capitalism. Read more.

Latest

Slide with image of Eyebeam Artist Alum, Torkwase Dyson’s studio. The work on view: Photo of an installation of floating minimally-architectural abstract wooden constructs that are painted a cool dark grey-to-black, fastened against a white wall, spread out throughout the wall at an even level. On the white wall besides each of the constructors are half-formed circular marks in dark charcoal, reminiscent of circular lines formed by compass/technical drawing instrument.

With Torkwase Dyson

Feed Oral History

Edited: October 8, 2024

A photograph of Zeina Baltagi with pale brown skin, brown eyes and eyebrows standing in natural foliage. She is wearing blue Lee Can't Bust Em 1940s Union cover-alls, tan work boots, and a red and white patterned keffiyeh scarf around her neck which covers her nose and mouth. Her thumbs rest in her pockets.

With Zeina Baltagi

Feed Oral History

Edited: February 22, 2024

A white person with a black and yellow head scarf, blue eyeshadow and pink lipstick with a white square framing their face with red facial recognition dots.

Exiting Surveillance Capitalism

With Harris Kornstein

Feed Oral History

Edited: May 16, 2023

Program

A 4x3 tiled grid of the artist fellows - each photo is described in the artist's section below.

The Democracy Machine The Democracy Machine is our radical experiment created to unlock artist-led invention in the areas of self-governance, technology, and democracy. The fellowship takes place against an ongoing transformation at Eyebeam and builds on Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future, a fast moving initiative created early in the pandemic so that artists could come together and explore the dark frontier of power that commodifies personal information at the expense of democracy and freedom.