Missing Objects Library at Gray Area / Goethe Institute
Missing Objects Library (with Jill Miller & Kathy Wang, 2023-present)–a work-in-progress website and library of intersectional feminist 3D models–will be featured in the Plural Prototypes: C/change Workshop Series at the Gray Area Festival in San Francisco.
Plural Prototypes: C/change Workshop Series
Gray Area Festival, 9th Edition
October 19–22, 2023
Today we face technologies that benefit narrow bands of society, polarize culture, and prohibit the cooperation needed to engage complex global challenges. To comprehensively address issues such as climate change, the unknown consequences of "artificial intelligence," or extractive capitalism demands new social relations, and new tools. In response, our gambits are radical arts-driven digital interventions we're calling PLURAL PROTOTYPES — reimagining infrastructure that facilitates deep and meaningful collaboration among diverse social groups.
PLURAL PROTOTYPES apply artistic inquiry and antidisciplinary practice in pursuit of holistic approaches toward an equitable and inclusive society. We allow cultural producers the agency to align our technological future with pluralistic values — open access and participation, interdependence, decentralization, mutual learning, shared responsibility, and care — ensuring we build systems that enhance the common good.
Marking Gray Area's 15th anniversary, this Festival highlights in-progress cultural experiments from our Creative Research and Development Labs, Cultural Incubator, and Education programs in collaboration with community and industry partners. The projects pose urgent questions about organization and governance, digital democracy, data sovereignty, and the future of work. Using emerging technologies such as immersive environments, generative AI, simulation, and the decentralized web, these projects demonstrate how artistic engagement can surface critical perspectives, and open up vital new pathways for collective imagination.
