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Valencia, a black woman with long black hair in a gray outfit, strikes a dance pose, facing a small, black camera on a short tripod with a gray dead cat.Valencia, a black woman with long black hair in a gray outfit, strikes a dance pose, facing a small, black camera on a short tripod with a gray dead cat.
What is human about technology?

Rapid Response Fellow (2020), Valencia James, dances before a homemade motion capture kit titled the Volumetric Performance Toolbox.

Humans.Tech.Ethics
Edited: February 22, 2024

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. 

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Photo from Hito Steyerl exhibition, lit in blue you see a screen that reads "Money is Fluid_
Rapid Response Created out of an overwhelming desire to lift the voices of artists in a time of crisis and systemic collapse, the initiative arose quickly from conversations at the outbreak of the global pandemic, when Eyebeam paused its highly distinguished flagship residency for the first time in its history and closed its physical space in order to support New York City’s effort to contain Covid-19.

Eyebeam models a new approach to artist-led creation for the public good; we are a non-profit that provides significant professional support and money to exceptional artists for the realization of important ideas that wouldn’t exist otherwise. Nobody else is doing this.

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