Eyebeam

Eyebeam is a nonprofit studio for collaborative experiments with technology towards a more imaginative and just world. The award supports a workshop exploring the role of art in helping to create a greater understanding about the scale of dominant technology platforms’ influence and related harms to society and to imagine solutions.

Eyebeam is a nonprofit, Brooklyn-based studio for collaborative experiments with technology towards a more imaginative and just world. The award will support the Refiguring the Future conference Eyebeam is producing in partnership with REFRESH in New York City February 9^th – 10^th. REFRESH is an artist collective dedicated to bringing special attention to historically marginalized artists working at the intersection of art, science and technology including women, people of color, LGBT+ and disabled people from around the globe.

Eyebeam is a nonprofit, Brooklyn-based studio for collaborative experiments with technology toward a more imaginative and just world. Its work is accomplished by providing support to artists for research, production and education. The award will support a partnership with REFRESH – a collective dedicated to opening the world of art, science and technology to marginalized populations including women, people of color, LGBTQ and others – that seeks to critically examine the potential and perils of artificial intelligence technologies. This will be achieved through three interrelated pillars of engagement that collectively form the REFRESH project: 1) the development and production of a multi-venue, six-week exhibition throughout New York City that highlights underrepresented voices at the intersection of art and technology; 2) a three-day symposium connected to the exhibition comprised of a series of public events around issues of diversity, inclusion, and the impact of data and artificial intelligence on society; and, 3) the creation of a two-year REFRESH curatorial and engagement fellowship that will support the activities in New York City and seek to move REFRESH programming to other cities and contexts. Award money will be used to support the costs of the exhibition, symposium, curatorial and engagement fellowship, and a portion of Eyebeam staff salaries.

In support of a research and development lab, which develops new technologies and media projects intended for the public domain (over two years).