“We Have Always Lived In The Future” Exhibition

Flux Factory

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We Have Always Lived in the Future is one of Flux Factory’s major 2017 exhibitions and is curated by Flux Artists-in-Residence, Joelle Fleurantin and Joshua Moton.

We Have Always Lived in the Future is an exhibition and series of artist-led discussions called, Silicon Flux, centering marginalized groups who are ignored or erased from Silicon Valley’s visions of future technologies. We seek to engage the ways that ableism, white supremacy, misogyny, colonialism and other modes of discrimination operate within the supposed impartiality of this industry, culture, and lifestyle.

We seek an intersectional technology. We seek to trace the lines of what we have lost from buying into the fallacy that technological advancement is inherently destructive. We seek to understand what can be saved, revived, and reinvigorated as we march forward. We seek to remove barriers wired into Silicon Valley’s conception of technology. We seek transparency in the ways that machine learning and digital networks shift, alter, and distort daily life. We seek technology as a force for civilization.

We refuse to be afraid. We refuse to be afraid of the destruction our current technologies have wrought. We refuse to be afraid of the dystopic myths that venture capital-ordained tech geniuses tell us are inevitable. We refuse to be afraid because we have always been here. We have always lived in the future.

-Curators Joelle Fleurantin and Joshua Moton

Participating Artists:

Stephanie Dinkins, Nettrice Gaskins, Tamara Leacock. Shuang Li. LaJune McMillian. Natasha Mmonatau, Nancy Nowacek, Rosary Solimanto, Clara Santamaria Vargas