Founded in early 2019, DeepMay is a network of artists, technologists, and theorists against Silicon Valley's concept of the future. We host camps, workshops, and an online community committed to rethinking what technology should and could be. And we learn to build it together. We teach practical skills both because the skills themselves are valuable, and because learning together builds the imagination, capacity, trust, and power this moment demands of us all.
No one is coming to save us from the grim future promised by the tech elite. We need the tools and know-how to build and fight for a livable world together, right now.
DeepMay is a study and practice of the technological methods and strategic interventions needed for a future we believe in.
We see humanity’s most vibrant and innovative potential in popular struggles against authoritarianism and towards a bright collective future. These struggles take place across many terrains; we focus ourselves together on the technical tools, knowledge, and strategies we need.
DeepMay is a shared practice of experimenting with technology, art, and theory. We learn together, sharpening our analyses and skills with each others’ blades.
We gather those on the margins of the tech world to explore rigor and intensity alongside slowness and ceremony–together. Through continuous experimentation, DeepMay offers a markedly unique, grounded experience of technical study and pedagogy.
DeepMay’s ultimate aim is to grow new ways to think about and build tech in support of dignified life on this planet.
We believe in the power of our expertise and imagination more than we believe in the power of what constrains us. At DeepMay, technology is never a neutral terrain, innocent lines of code awaiting their proper application. Others ask how a monolithic, violent, catastrophic tech landscape can be made more “equitable” or more “safe.” We do not beg for scraps from the table of what’s been offered to us by Silicon Valley. DeepMay holds its arms open, inviting in many different ways of knowing to create blooming technodiversity through shared practice.
