Active from 2015 to 2017, voidLab was an intersectional feminist collective for women, non-binary, gender nonconforming, trans and queer people to express individual identities through art and technology. Projects, actions, and reflections accumulated from this temporary community now live in an archive available in PDF and printed format.
We are a group of students, educators, artists, designers, and technologists that meet weekly to organize events, workshops, and exhibitions that forefront underrepresented voices. Our goal is to celebrate differences rather than to idolize a singular value or way of expression. At our meetings, anyone can contribute to the agenda and each meeting is run by a different moderator, encouraging diverse and unique styles for leadership and empowerment. This structure represents voidLab’s most central value, which is to work against the misconception of equating hegemony with solidarity and to transcend every border imposed by institutions and society at large. Compassion and self-reflection are essential in our work. Community Guidelines >>
co-founders
All regular participants of voidLab are co-founders. We think of ourselves as co-founders rather than members to imply both the agency to change the code of conduct and the responsibility to be held accountable for the consequence of these changes. We are interested in unlearning the “creation tale” that often gets retold to define an organization or a company. Without a creation tale, voidLab can move forward with time and flexibly adapt to intersectional discourses in the upcoming years.
Aliah Darke
Artist, hacker, game developer and overall BAMF.
Alice Jung
Multi-identity cyborg. Korean American.
Amanda Stojanov
Lives / works at the intersection of art-making and feminist consciousness.
Annamaria Andrea
Designer, researcher, magenta.
Anisa Bashiri
designer + programmar + photographer
Echo Theohar
Artist, educator, and community technologist
Evelyn Masso
interaction designer and engineer
Hillary Rose Cleary
Writer, digital humanist, over-thinker of many things
Xin Xin
Artist, Researcher, Visiting Professor LMU
Kate Hollenbach
Media artist + programmer
Leah Horgan
in4mtx phd student / visual designer / intersectional feminist
Jules Kris
designer and interactive noodle
Sanglim Han
art worker with modernized body
Symrin Chawla
internet flâneuse, selfie analyst, designer
Yuehao Jiang
Live creature, mama, 💖, emoji lover.
press
- Feminist collective voidLab held poster exhibition at Broad The Daily Bruin, April 2016
- Not So Sorry, FEM, April 2016
- Art+Feminism+voidLab: Reconstructing the Narrative FEM, March 2016
- voidLab: A Feminist Space for Art, Technology, and Critical Conversations FEM, January 2016
- enter the void: A Laboratory Without Limits The Paper Mixtape, Fall 2015