ALT The Eyebeam Logo, Ryan Christopher Clarke, Oral History in white text over a portrait photo. In the photograph is the artist Ryan Christopher Clarke, a Black man, who has a medium-toned skin with chin-length, thinly braided locs, and a full beard and moustache. He is wearing a fluffy, beige fleece jacket, a thin gold chain, and a white shirt with the visible words, “Katrina Black Genocide,” in black text. His sweater is hiding the rest of the words. He is holding a blue enamel coffee cup.

ALT A quote by artist Ryan, taken from the interview in white text, “I’m interested in looking back at technologies that are no longer alluring so we can see the allure of contemporary technologies with more clarity... In connection to my own background, especially in the American South, Black people were once the technology of the day.”

ALT A photograph of a carved and sanded weathered grey cypress-wood sculpture. The Cypress lumber has been shapened into a thin, tilting, squeezed door with scrap metal used as a handle. Cypress wood is said to be “extremely durable, light, soft, straight grained with a soft amber or reddish hue and easily workable,...insect resistant, and very stable in contact with soil or water, tending to resist all forms of rot…can naturally age to a weathered gray” 2001 pamphlet by McReynolds Architects, The Menil Collection – Exterior Wall Renovations.

ALT Portrait of Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellow 2021-2022, Seba Calfuqueo. Photo credit: Whitney Legge. Pictured is artist Seba. They are a medium-toned indigenous person of the Mapuche people, and she wears a pink and light blue jumpsuit. Her dark brown hair sways to the side in the wind.

ALT Portrait of Eyebeam Artist 2014-2016, Torkwase Dyson. Photo credit: Whitney Legge. Pictured is artist Torkwase. She is a Black American woman, with medium length curly salt-and-pepper hair. She sits in her studio, in front of large, wall-sized canvases.