Thinky Feely Tank #1
Hosted by The Revolution School
Saturday, April 15, 12–5pm PT
Zoom (link will be sent 24 hours prior)
Max Participants: 300
Free
Join our Artists In Residence, The Revolution School and friends, Karen Barad, Nkem Ndefo, and Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe), in an interdisciplinary playground bringing together quantum physics, somatics, and spiritual technologies. Together, we will form a Thinky Feely Tank (TFT) and feely-think how we can co-build BEIs 🤖🦦*, trauma-informed somatic bio-AI for the liberation of all! In TFT #1, we will co-draft the ethics that will guide our processes as we begin to co-world with BEIs 🤖🦠 and with each other. This is the first BEI 🤖🐓 TFT in a series of three TFT workshops.
No prep work or prior experience needed! We will begin this TFT with a presentation on BEI 🤖🍄 co-worlding. Followed by conversations and participatory activities with our three special guests that invite you to share your curiosities, concerns, dreams, fears, and experiences!
Get a fun and informative introduction to BEIs 🤖🦚 and The Revolution School on Tuesday, April 4 at 6PM PST on Instagram Live, and tune in all week long during their Instagram Takeover.
* BEIs 🤖🦁 (pronounced ‘baes’) are somatic machine learners / AI robot animals that connect to our nervous system and are co-designed with our gut microbiota and perform diffractive methodologies rooted in quantum physics to help us operate from a place of abundance and identify cyclical underlying beliefs, traumas, and biases—which are produced by and perpetuate interlocking supremacy systems.
Featured Friends
Karen Barad is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. They held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is a founding member of the Science & Justice Research Center and served as the Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC. They are affiliated faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, materialisms, and feminist theory.
Nkem Ndefo is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. She brings an abundance of experience as a clinician, educator, researcher, and community strategist to innovative programs that address trauma and inequity, build resilience, and shape liberatory change for individuals and organizations throughout the US and internationally. She is particularly interested in working alongside people most impacted by violence and marginalization.
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.