Zandie Brockett 张桂才
Zandie Brockett 张桂才 is a Beijing-based independent curator and project consultant from Los Angeles, where her work focuses on theoretical and practice-based investigations into interdisciplinary creative methodologies. She is the founder and chief curator of Bactagon Projects.
Claire Isabel Webb
Claire Isabel Webb directs the Future Humans program at the Berggruen Institute, where her work explores the radical scientific transformations shaping life, mind, and outer space. She is a historian and theorist of biology, space exploration, and speculative science.
Salon
How can art open nuanced ways of learning from integrating and discovering mutualistic uses of technology, creating beneficial futures for humans, and beyond?
The Future Technê Salon Series assembled cultural thought leaders—artists, writers, filmmakers, journalists, entrepreneurs, worldbuilders, and technologists—and asked them to describe their future technê, a creative contribution through a technological imagination for a better world. Their answers illuminate embodied intelligence, non-human cognition, and other more-than-human ways of being.
In ancient Greek, the term technê describes both theoretical knowledge and craft practices. Future Technê sparks conversations at the intersection of novel technologies, experimental modes of governance and inclusion, narrative worldbuilding, and other creative practices that provoke futures we want to thrive in.
“Against the backdrop of an evolving biosphere, augmented and artificial information landscapes, and shifting social contracts due to ever-changing political and economic systems,” Webb and Brockett explain, “investigating future technês prompts partial answers to pressing questions of our time.”