We make zines* and workshops about technology.
*Zines are self-published, original works with a deep history in DIY spaces. We publish guides, handbooks, and creative materials that draw from the subversive, communal spirit of zines.
We bring tech down to Earth.
From a distance, technological systems can seem abstract and complicated. Through zines and workshops, we makes technology easy for anyone to understand.
We show how technical systems really work.
All of our materials show how sociotechnical systems connect to other existing structures.
We always focus on agency.
We unearth practical research, examples, and practices that allow readers and participants to make sense of past technology and create their own visions for the future.
Meet the APGT Team:
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Mimi Onuoha has worked as an artist, educator, and researcher for close to a decade. As an artist, her projects frequently involve working to create datasets and investigate complex technical realities in ways that are engaging and surprising. As a teacher, she uses an active learning approach to work alongside learners. As a researcher, she’s focused on how social structures impact different groups in different ways.
Mimi’s dual artistic and research-driven approach is a hallmark of APGT’s approach to making creative materials.
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Diana J Nucera, aka “Mother Cyborg,” is a multimedia artist who uses music, performance, DIY publishing, community organizing tactics and popular education methods to elevate collective technological consciousness and agency. Diana’s art draws from and includes thirteen years of community organizing work in Detroit, Michigan, during which time she wrote guides and devised organizing models to fight digital redlining.
Diana has a long track record of organizational development and leadership. At Allied Media Projects, she created “Community Technology,” the concept of making technology based on community needs. This pedagogy, which she used to found the Detroit Community Technology Project, animates APGT.
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Sylver Sterling is a graphic designer based in Toronto who has worked at a number of organizations that have enhanced my skills in not only graphic design, but social justice as well. As someone who is creative, driven and not afraid to think outside the box, she is excited and committed to using her art and design talents to improve the social issues that continue to affect this city, nation and global society.
Meet the APGT Board Members:
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Simone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also Research Director of Critical Surveillance Inquiry (CSI) with Good Systems, a research collaborative at the University of Texas at Austin. CSI works with scholars, organizations and communities to curate conversations, exhibitions and research that examine the social and ethical implications of surveillance technologies, both AI-enabled and not. With a focus on algorithmic harm and tech equity, we continually question “what’s good?” in order to better understand the development and impact of artificial intelligence.
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Zara Rahman is a Berlin-based researcher and writer whose interests lie at the intersection of power, technology and justice. Over the past decade, her work has focused on supporting the responsible use of data and technology in advocacy and social justice, working with activists from around the world to support context-driven and thoughtful uses of tech and data. She is the Deputy Director at The Engine Room, an international non-profit organisation supporting civil society to use tech and data more effectively and strategically. She has held fellowships with the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, digitalHKS at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Data & Society, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Saheli, a UK-based non-profit providing support and refuge to women of colour fleeing domestic abuse.