Digital World Building _An Act of Resistance
November 19th, 5 - 7 PM ET via Zoom
Digital world building _An Act of Resistance, a workshop moderated by Jazsalyn, Artist and Director of BLACK BEYOND, will explore the process to reconstruct digital and 3D design into tools for community and world building URL and AFK (away from keyboard). As a group we will discuss the dichotomy of navigating social media, despite its relentless surveillance, as sites for community organizing and how this influences our abilities to reimagine, speculate and manifest alternative futures, meanwhile existing in the present. Our discussion will preface a brief introduction and collaborative work session using Blender, a free open-source 3D software.
black beyond is a radical space for artists and activists to define alternate realities for blackness, JAZSALYN collaborates with black and non-black co-liberators to decolonize and re-indigenize social and creative practice. Through black beyond, she curates a series of workshops, artist talks, exhibitions, performances, as well as a monthly segment titled alternate realities on Dublab Radio.