A People’s History of Tech: The Mobile Phone

Sara M. Watson

Zusammenfassung
This installation is a participatory storytelling project. A timeline features key events across movements and resistance, bodies and minds, culture and behaviors, etc. Participants add their story to the timeline to reflect a more inclusive tech history.
Diversität
Teilhabe & Zugang
Mobilität
Kunst & Kultur
Sonderformat
Englisch
Off Stage
A grid of black and white images of people holding mobile phones throughout history with overlayed text that reads: "A People's History of Tech includes you"

A People’s History of Tech is a collective storytelling project. Rather than focus on lone genius inventors or technological innovations, this living archive centers the embodied stories of the human experience of technology. We begin with the technology that has arguably changed our daily lives the most: the supercomputer we carry around in our pockets, the mobile phone. We believe that reflecting on our place in a more inclusive history of tech reminds us of our agency in imagining the tech we want in the future.

Headshot of brown haired white woman with a bob in a black and white sweater on a grey background
Sara M.
Watson
Technology Critic
Sara M. Watson