'She dreamed for herself a future. She saw that her people, her community, would be free and living free in a different place. Because she never had that experience, she had to create something that doesn’t exist yet and something that is only in her mind'
These were high school students, who had to learn to code. They had to learn about engineering, and then they also had to learn art and storytelling in order to create these robots that they presented to their community. Many of the activities that I’ve been doing since the pandemic hit have been inspired by Afrofuturism, that was one example. I’ve been doing thisfor middle school students throughout the pandemic.
And I want to bring it again back to Harriet Tubman. You called your artwork “Beacon of Hope.” How does this “beacon of hope” relate to her memory as well as to the future? How do you see our relationship to technology as not having to be this dystopic thing like the Terminator, but something quite the opposite of that?I don’t think we’re going to get to where we need to be with technology, with education, unless we change the path.
In addition to the fact that she was a former slave, Harriet Tubman also had epilepsy. She had to be really in tune with her body. Maybe some of her dreaming came from the epilepsy as well. Her disability was a challenge, but she used it as a way to help think her way out of her current circumstances. She used that epilepsy as a way to give her visions and dreams that guided her.
But she also used her environment, she used nature, she was very observant, and she was able to figure out a plan when there was none. She had help along the way; there were other people that helped her from here to there, but she was the one on the path. And she was able to create something different, create a new path.
This is how she’s giving us Afrofuturism, a blueprint for how you would go about changing your circumstances, not staying in one place. Being willing to go out into the world without a path and creating it based on what you know, what you see and what you’ve learned – like a scientist or a coder. There’s a program I need to write, and I need to figure out, line by line, how this is going to work. And then play that program again and again and again and again to free more people.
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