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Mother Cyborg, a young Latin woman with shoulder-length black hair, poses in front of a colorful street wall in cyborg-like white shades, a black sleeveless T-shirt, and neon colored printed arm bands.

Portrait photo by Trilogy Beats.

Artists

Mother Cyborg

She // Her // Hers

Artist, Educator, and Tech Organizer

Detroit, Michigan

Mother Cyborg is a multimedia artist who uses music, performance, DIY publishing, quilting, and popular education to elevate collective technological consciousness and agency. At the age of eight, she taught herself piano and cello. At twenty-four, her cello performances using a custom program to abstract videos of thunderstorms and sunrises with frequency and volume left audiences in tears. She then realized the power art, media, and technology have in facilitating collective emotional experiences.

Mother Cyborg weaves together education, technology and craft to create evidence of mutual aid and reveal the curiosity between individual people with each other, with technology, and with the natural world. Pressure Systems, her debut album released in 2017, is an opus to self-transformation that tells the story of a cyborg coming to consciousness. Mother Cyborg's art draws from and includes thirteen years of community organizing work in Detroit, Michigan, during which time she wrote guides and devised organizing models to fight digital redlining by teaching residents in low-income neighborhoods to build and run their own Internet Service Providers. Her seventeen zines, which include The Teaching Community Technology Handbook and A People's Guide to AI, document and disseminate community technology practices.

Donor -This award was generously supported by the USA Endowment Fund.

This artist page was last updated on: 07.11.2024

Mother Cyborg, a Latin woman with cyclops glasses and neon armbands on is surrounded by glowing streams of colorful light that she seems to be manipulating.

Portrait of Mother Cyborg.

Photo by Ara Howrani.

Four young women watch an elder Black woman DJing with vinyl records. The DJ has headphones on and drops the needle onto a record.

Documentation of Beat Match Brunch by Mother Cyborg, 2017 – present. A community-building and music program for women to learn to DJ with vinyl records.