WE BE IMAGINING INCUBATOR

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The pandemic has required us to reexamine the ways we convene online, reimagine alternatives to enterprise video conference software and to begin experimenting with new digital storytelling tools.Share our suspicion that the revolution will not be a webinar? Pitch your idea at WeBeImagining@gmail.com

Artwork by Jahmel Reynolds

SCIENCE ON SUNDAYS

4 Screenshots of someone performing a dance, taken from the Science On Sundays #3 event.

Our first incubator project was Science on Sundays, where performance artists, activists and academics could provide live performance and discuss a series of critical topics during the pandemic from different angles. More than 100 people participated over 3 weeks with a diverse cross section of speakers including UCLA based fluid dynamic physicists on “Why Does Wine Cry?” Artist Stanley Muñoz shared a dance performance to Papi Pacify by FKA Twigs that asked the audience to consider how we use alcohol to repress our instincts in toxic relationships.

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HITCHHIKE THE WEB EVENT

HitchHiker is a chrome extension for creating live performances inside other people's internet browsers. It was developed by experimental digital artist Todd Anderson. Using HitchHiker, you can lead a tour for any section of the internet, assemble a protest group to vandalize corporate home pages, interrogate our relationship to social media or online shopping, even create a collaborative interactive mystery or invent your own new style of performance the world has never seen before.

“Using HitchHiker, you can lead a tour of a section of the internet you know better than anyone else, assemble a protest group to vandalize corporate home pages, interrogate our relationship to social media or online shopping on top of those very sites, create a collaborative interactive mystery or invent your own new style of performance that's never been seen before.” -Todd Anderson

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BLACK SIREN RADIO

Weekly radio show on WCKR inter weaving Black music and frontline reporting.

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WBI PODCAST

Examining the intersection of race, tech, surveillance, gender and disability.

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INCUBATOR STREAMS:

Some projects created as part of the We Be Imagining Incubator:

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SCIENCE ON SUNDAYS

Performance artists, activists and academics gather to perform and talk Sunday nights.

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HITCHHIKE THE WEB

HitchHiker is a chrome extension for creating live performances inside other people's internet browsers.

LEARN MORE

Yo SciComm!

This is the first in a 10 part "Yo SciComm!" series for the We Be Imagining Incubator. Dayanni Bhagwandin shares her journey to becoming an Indo-Caribbean Chemistry PhD student at UCLA with a focus on electronic applications as well as the importance of efforts like #ShutDownSTEM in demanding racial diversity in the physical sciences.

Questions or Comments

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