About Us
Macro Waves is a QPOC-led California-based arts collective and creative studio composed of artists, designers, and creative technologists of color. Founded in 2015 by Robin Birdd David and Jeffrey Yip. Rooted in intersectional collaboration and social practice, Macro Waves transforms spaces into platforms for community engagement, critical discourse, and collective action. Through creative technology, design, and research, the collective produces interactive experiences, exhibitions, site-specific installations, and interdisciplinary projects that explore community care and future world-building.
Misison & Vision
Their work is guided by the principles of social equity and collective resilience. As a project-based collective, Macro Waves develops works that are responsive to the present moment—examining social issues that impact marginalized communities. Recent projects have explored themes such as immigration, the impact of emerging technologies on communities of color, intergenerational experiences, and practices of collective care. Macro Waves views creative collaboration as a critical pedagogy within its artistic praxis. Collaboration functions as both process and outcome—creating opportunities to gather, share knowledge, and cultivate innovation beyond the individual. Through this approach, the collective uses the creative process as a tool for social transformation.
A core element of Macro Waves’ work is public programming and community-engaged projects. The collective collaborates with culture bearers, community organizers, and visionary thinkers who are actively shaping more just and liberated futures. These partnerships are built on mutual respect and intentionality, ensuring that community experts co-design public programs that are rooted in authenticity and shared values.
History
Macro Waves emerged from absence—from the lack of people of color in art and technology spaces, and from a longing for community within an industry that often rewards individualism over interdependence. In the early years, Macro Waves built immersive experiences through creative technologies, crafting environments where collaboration could thrive. Over time, the collective realized the true immersion was never in the technology itself but in the people—the communities whose stories, visions, and resistance shape every project we create.
Macro Waves is a fiscally sponsored 501(c)(3) project.
