Who We Are
Bandwidth Care was started by psychotherapist, digital activist, and artist Marcus Brittain Fleming. Bandwidth Care organizes people who are devoted to taking care of each other’s mental health in IRL and online spaces. We create socially-engaged art, develop research, and provide supportive therapies to help people troubleshoot the emotional side effects of 21st century networked life.
Bandwidth Care founder Marcus Brittain Fleming is now providing psychotherapy services to eligible clients in New York and California. The practice uses a combination of traditional psychotherapeutic techniques and anti-oppressive frameworks — all within the context that new technologies have fundamentally altered what it means to be human.
A New Context
The internet has altered the way we relate to each other. Friends become followers. Tirades become tweetstorms. You block your enemies and screenshot your crushes. You’re a user. You use. Bandwidth Care explores how all this use makes us feel— how screen time changes the nature of intimacy. Artwork created by the Bandwidth Care Community investigates this new type of intimacy.
Algorithmic Oppression
Technology validates, triggers, and exhausts us. Technology reinforces systems of white supremacy and patriarchy through algorithmic oppression and unchecked online harassment. Bandwidth seeks to support and advocate for those affected by hate speech and biases that are built into the many platforms we use on a daily basis.
Tech Labor
Bandwidth Care also seeks to support the mental health of tech workers around the world. From assembly line machinists to IT help desk workers, the tech industry employs millions of humans who maintain vast digital infrastructures. Always invisible and often underappreciated, these modern day anti-heros work long hours in poor work conditions for little pay. The work of maintaining ever-obsolescing technologies only compounds the mental and emotional strain of these roles. Bandwidth Care hopes to illuminate the lives of tech workers through research, mutual aid, digital activism, and art.
