Reclaiming Agency: A Panel Discussion on Art, Technology, and Collective Futures

How do we shape the futures being designed around us? Join artists rootoftwo, Taeyoon Choi, and Mother Cyborg for a conversation about technology, civic life, and the possibilities of collective imagination. Organized on the occasion of rootoftwo’s exhibition Anyspace? Whatever., this discussion considers how systems of surveillance, artificial intelligence, and data extraction increasingly shape our public and social worlds. The speakers will explore technology not as a neutral force, but as something shaped by human values, labor, power, and collective choices. Moving beyond critique, the conversation will consider how artists, educators, technologists, and communities can use creative practice to question dominant models of innovation and imagine more equitable futures.

Together, the speakers will ask: Who gets to design the future? Who benefits from the systems we build? And how might we create technologies and civic spaces rooted in agency, cooperation, and care? The conversation will be followed by an opportunity…