“My work is motivated by a vision of the future where the greatest possibilities for humanity and technology merge.”
My work is motivated
by a vision
Mother Cyborg grows out of more than twenty years as a musician, technologist, community organizer and educator. I am motivated by a vision of the future where the greatest possibilities for collective liberation, art and technology merge. I develop music, art, and educational tools to reveal the complexities that occur where technology intersects with social spaces, economies,
and relationships.
I Transform Myself, I Transform the World around me.
As a performer and educator, I spent years thinking about how we create the conditions for the most transformative learning to occur. I was less interested in methods of simply receiving information and more inspired by the process of adapting knowledge for new purposes and the relationship between shaping our internal worlds and shaping the external world.
I believe that
By demystifying technology through self-published zines I am creating an analogue touchstone for those afraid of the digital world, putting technical knowledge in the hands of the people who have been socialized to believe they are not and could never be “technologists.” I am committed to nurturing, hybridizing, and artfully shaping and documenting the future of technology rather than being shaped by it.
Education is at the heart of all I do
I believe education is a continuous process of unlearning and relearning, acknowledging how learners may have been oppressed by the very tools and systems they’re using. My education practices focus on reflection and evaluation so as to shift media/technology from inaccessible systems to transparent and do-able processes, especially for learners who have historically, and continue to be disenfranchised by traditional schooling.
My work focuses on collaborative media & technology education because I believe it gives people the opportunity to engage, on their own terms, in a learning process where they use all available resources, including each other, to transform themselves as well as empower their own communities.
To learn more about this philosophy in practice check out my Teaching Community Technology Handbook
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