Eyebeam

Exciting news: Eyebeam is honored to announce that we received a grant from ’s FY2026 Cultural Development Fund (CDF)!! Art and culture are the heart and soul of New York, and we’re proud to be among the nearly 1,200 groups receiving city support this year thanks to the partnership between the ’s Office and the City Council.

This investment in our work will help us bring accessible, affordable cultural programs to our community. Our CDF grant will support our residency, Speculating on plurality!

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📺Inspired by the FRIES model of consent—Freely Given, Reversible, Informative, Enthusiastic, Specific—Artist Xin Xin, tells us they developed “TogetherNet” alongside software developer, Charlotte Yaqing Wen, Eyebeam alums and lead project writer Neema Githere, and project advisor Lauren Lee McCarthy, .
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TogetherNet, a “peer-to-peer communication software designed for micro communities to archive private and public chat logs,” connects the ideas of “sovereignty, democracy, and community as they relate to archives, including those in the digital sphere.” The project melds the ethos of data transparency and consent, with the purpose of transforming digital rights policies, such as the right to be forgotten, into an embodied practice that reimagines online social interaction and the protocols and architecture used to connect us all.
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To read the interview in its entirety, 🖇️link in bio 🖇
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Captions 🖼️ 1: Portrait of Eyebeam alum artist 2020-2021, Xin Xin. Courtesy of the artist; 🖼️ 3: Xin Xin, ‘Togethernet’ 2020-2021. Software and web application. Supported by Eyebeam through the 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Age Fellowship; 🖼️ 4 + 5: Poster from workshops, facilitated by Dorothy R. Santos, and Xin Xin, presented at Eyebeam and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Consentful Protocol” series. Graphic Design by Livia Foldes, .


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