“Towards the
Love of Missing Out”

Location: 2022 Biennial Symposium at Ammerman Center - Connecticut College - November 6-13, 2022
Exploration: Bandwidth Care collaborator, Centre for Emotional Materiality (CEM) presents “Towards the Love of Missing Out (LOMO)” a three-part activation that includes a workshop, keynote presentation, and live participatory performance. Our three-part keynote activation guides participants in a careful intellectual, somatic, and emotional waltz from FOMO to LOMO.

WELLNESS x WEB 3

Location: Cyberspace ~ October 3-10, 2022
Exploration: This week-long pop-up event offered curated coaching sessions, wellness workshops, and community-building exercises facilitated by therapists, dancers, sonic alchemists, and mindfulness coaches. Seven courses throughout the week provided a toolbox of tips and tricks to help participants maneuver the many ups-and-downs of new tech spaces, especially Web 3. We welcomed everyone, from Kool-aid Drinking Blockchain Builders to NFT Poo-pooers. Wellness x Web 3 provided Cohort Members the skills to navigate the open seas of Web 3, no matter where they stood. Support for this project was provided by The Stacks Foundation. Half of the profits from this event are being used to fund critical research about Web3 and psychotherapy for low-income tech workers.

TFW Zine

Location: Tiny Tech Zine
Collaborators: Elizabeth Lin
Exploration: TFW: Tech Feeling When is a glossary of tech words used in IRL. The zine defines and animates tech lingo that is increasingly used to make sense of everyday interactions.

Kinfolk Movement Studies

Location: Movement Research, BAX
Collaborators: Malcolm-x Betts , Rigoberto Lara Guzmán, Nile Harris, BriFrei, Jean Sonderand, Tim Burcham
Technology: Python, C++
Exploration: Bandwidth Care works in collaboration with Malcolm-x Betts. Our studio practice integrates improvisational dance, creative writing, critical theory, and technology. As a collective, we focus on care, communion, and joy — in opposition to the violence of white supremacy. Computer programs are not used in our dances to detect movement or surveil bodies. Rather, coding is used by and for our collective to reveal, decode, and interpret tender, imaginative moments that can’t be seen with the naked eye.

Help Desk

Materials: Python, JavaScript, HTML, Thermal Printer, Arduino, and repurposed E-waste.
Location: School For Poetic Computation
Date: 11/10-11/11 2018
Exploration: Help Desk explores the connection between technical troubleshooting and psychotherapy. Visitors use the interface to unpack personal issues. After using the software to whittle down one specific struggle, users “submit” their issue. Help Desk then prints out “Support Tickets” that reflect the selected issues. Over time, these tickets get placed on the “Support Queue”, creating a bottleneck of real-life, real-time dilemmas. After submitting their own ticket, visitors not only have the chance to reflect on themselves, but can also take a moment to peruse other tickets—the emotional traces of past Help Desk users.

Emotional Pop-ups

Exploration: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interface Design

Tender Tech Logos

Exploration: Software, Care, Emotional Bandwidth

Left to Your Own Devices

Exploration: Being “left to your own devices” is a phrase with a lot of poetic weight. Traditionally, this phrase has been used to describe someone who has been granted personal sovereignty; i.e. After graduating from high school, the boy went to college, where he was left to his own devices. It also can be used to describe a situation in which these personal freedoms are too much to handle; i.e. The man lost in the desert was left to his own devices. The meaning of the phrase is intensified by the 21st century definition of the word “device”. Our smart devices provide us with a similar balance between liberty and deprivation, between viceroy and novice, between getting a grip on ourselves and getting vice gripped by our devices. 

Words on Walls

Collaborators: Ken Brown, Brian Hurlow
Exploration: Everyone has something to say, whether politics, poetry, or romantic provocations. New York City walls offer a constant comment canvas of free expression for all. During his 30 years of documenting NYC street art ephemera, Ken Brown has discovered that these words on walls hold much more than opinions and attitudes, they suggest a texture of the times. Better yet: they offer visions into the future. Our cyber street art fortune teller fixes these prescient phrases of New York street culture into something more than stone. If you want to know what's going on, read the walls.