Feature Fellow: Media 2070
Media 2070’s work starts from the belief that repairing media requires more than reckoning with its harms.
It also means building the conditions to imagine something different. Their latest work, I Saw Things I Imagined, collects visions for the future of news and explores what media could look, feel, and sound like after reparations. In this Q&A, Media 2070 shares what they’re learning about journalism, technology, autonomy, and the future of storytelling.
“AI has opened up a new conversation around privacy, journalism and representation. Black people are experiencing the first impacts of AI, with the alarm bells resonating for the larger population more slowly.”
- Media 2070
What are you working on right now?
Media 2070: We are working on the second collection of the Reparative Journalism Archive, focused on people’s vision for the future of news titled, 'I Saw Things I Imagined'. The goal is for people to experience the archive as a counter-narrative to what dominant media looks, feels and sounds like, into a future where media reparations have been made real. We want the archive to be interactive and additive.
The next iteration of our Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations [will be] in an accessible and aesthetic format chronicling media harms and resistance.
What have you learned recently about your work, your community, or the repair ecosystem?
Media 2070: Our work has gotten a lot of traction in academic spaces, with people who are shaping the future of journalism. Our work is cited in scholarly research and we get many invitations to speak to journalism students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
AI has opened up a new conversation around privacy, journalism and representation. Black people are experiencing the first impacts of AI, with the alarm bells resonating for the larger population more slowly.
How are you practicing repair within your organization?
Media 2070: By spinning off into an independent sponsored project, Media 2070 chose to practice repair by establishing our autonomy.
What future vision of repair are you seeding now?
Media 2070: We are asking what is a reparative vision for technology, as a site of both harm and possibility in the broader infrastructure of storytelling.
What’s coming up next for your organization?
Media 2070: We are looking forward to our Symposium on Reparative Art and Media this fall in Los Angeles, CA, in partnership with ZEAL Cooperative’s The Remedy Is Solidarity multimedia anthology.