Reworlding the Unimaginable
Research Exhibition
Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA
August 17 - September 7, 2024
︎︎︎ Opening Reception: August 17, 2-5 pm
︎︎︎ World-Builder Teach-Ins: August 24, 2 - 6 pm
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︎︎︎ Closing Reception: September 7, 2-5 pm
︎︎︎ Tickets: FREE
World-Builder Teach-Ins: August 24, 2 - 6 pm
Teach-ins:
⭐️ How Tech went Right: The Rise of Reactionary Politics in Silicon Valley and Online - Becca (Stanford & Tech Workers Coalition)
⭐️ Toward a People's University: Reprogramming Power in Tech - Boink & Cat (Stanford Tech For Liberation)
⭐️ Building with Blinders: Tech Complicity in Militarism and Labor's Ability to Combat it - Mark (Former Google Engineer, No Tech For Apartheid)
⭐️ Remaking Tech from Below: Collective Action School - Emily Chao (Collective Action School)
Closing Event Artist Talk: September 7, 2-5pm
⭐️ Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D.
⭐️ Xiaowei R. Wang
⭐️ Kelley O’Leary
Reworlding the Unimaginable draws connections between big tech and the global impact of modern-day technology while highlighting ongoing work to create alternative futures. This project goes beyond the influence of science fiction-based themes of future dystopian and utopian narratives and platforms future world builders of today. Reworlding the Unimaginable challenges the myth of technological solutionism (Tech will save us) by examining the militarized history of the tech industry and exposing its deeply intertwined relationship to community destabilization, digital colonialism, and late capitalism.
Reworlding the Unimaginable focuses on cultural workers, disruptors, activists, and organizers who are radically reimagining the world through their current praxis as a foundation for fighting oppressive systems and envisioning a world that prioritizes people over profit. Through a research-based approach to art making, Macro Waves invites the community to collaborate on an interactive installation that weaves together technology’s connections to war, labor movement uprisings, technological advancements, and environmental climate catastrophes while highlighting tech justice activists, paving the way for alternative futures. Reworlding the Unimaginable zooms in on present-day visionaries designing solutions and building for a future world that centers collective liberation and freedom over profit as a way to challenge the status quo and propel us toward a more equitable and sustainable future. During the duration of this project, Macro Waves invites viewers to add to the installation and will host a series of world-builder teach-ins and discussions focusing on alternative futures.
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