WE BE IMAGINING INCUBATOR

Lorem+Ipsum — 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.
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The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism

Otherwise is a six-week project-based summer school for the people, launched in partnership with Sucheta Ghoshal’s Inquilab at the University of Washington, Human Centered Design & Engineering Department.

Participants will engage in a series of keynotes, roundtables, workshops and prototyping of counter-fascism tools. 12 participant will receive a stipend of $2000 for their time and all applicants will receive the opportunity to publish in a special edition of the ACM Interactions Journal.

The inaugural class of Summer 2021 is focusing on Tigray, Oromia, India and the Black US South Further information here

Alternate Beacons: A Body of Work That Cannot Be Ignored

We Be Imagining is partnering with Logic Magazine to create what scholar and organizer Seeta Peña Gangadhara calls “a body of work that cannot be ignored.” This special issue of the magazine will present a collection of interdisciplinary essays, interviews, poetry and visual art that offer a material strategy and vision for abolitionist technologies. At a time when despair about our technological future has reached a high, the issue aims to go beyond mere critique to serve as a beacon of new possibilities.

We're very grateful for the generous support of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2I2) This allows us to provide $2000-$4000 stipends to each contributor of this special edition.

Snap

Snap is an experimental photozine collecting cultural ethnographies of image and identity making among participants of community organizing subcultures. We aim to meditate on personal identity-making through art and culture, particularly for black and brown people of all gender expressions, and to trace how these little ripples reverberate within larger pop culture, through our own taxonomies and citations. **Snap is sponsored by the WBI Incubator but 100% the work of neta bomani and Ritu Ghiya.

neta bomani is an abolitionist worker who engages in oral history, direct action and social practices

Ritu Ghiya is an artist who works as a designer and web developer in NYC

Kashmir: a palmyra zine

SCIENCE ON SUNDAYS

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.

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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Close up photograph of a wine glass — **SCIENCE ON SUNDAYS**

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

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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.