Part artist talk and part tech workshop, Yadira Sanchez will be in conversation with Logic(s) Magazine’s Kenia Hale as they discuss Yadira’s work as a technologist and artist. Yadira will introduce us to her work around cultivating rural tech ecologies and describe how she creates technologies based in rural Mexican cultures, exploring methodologies around community, collaboration, mutuality with the ecologies around us. Their conversation will reflect the power of crafting symbiotic infrastructures in a communitarian way, engaging ecology, technology, the sun, the land and the contradictions in between.

Our Speaker:

Yadira Sanchez is cultivating tech ecologies. They are using software, hardware and data to bring together ecological systems and tech making as a way to co-create and deepen connections with our ecologies. Parting from her rural upbringing, Yadira is invested in, inspired and informed by the traditional ecological knowledge of her rural community and surrounding ecologies, where she will continue to cultivate tech ecologies.

Kenia Hale is a writer, editor, and community worker from Cleveland, Ohio. She works as Administrative Coordinator at the Incite Center @ Columbia University and Logic(s) Magazine. She’s also an assistant teacher at the School for Poetic Computation. She's a founding editor of Porch Water Press, a Black Queer publishing press based in Lenapehoking. Kenia explores Black environmental legacies and futures through podcasts, game design, and her BIPOC punk band. She's been published in The Hopper, Literary Cleveland, The Yale Historical Review, Black Freighter Press, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. You can find her work at keniahale.com.

The Logic(s) Magazine Speaker Series

We are excited to announce the Spring 2024 Logic(s) Speakers Series - a ten part series of virtual public events reflecting relevant transnational tech conversations from people and communities doing deeply important work but too often subjected to institutional marginalization. Running every Wednesday from April 3rd to June 5th, this series will center transnational voices and perspectives essential to thinking critically about technology. Featuring organizers, poets, artists, and scholars from Sudan, Palestine, Kashmir and more, this series will reflect the varied frequencies of Logic(s) vision, helping us make critical tech conversations more accessible and develop a shared lexicon for the future we seek to create. Learn more about our work at https://logicmag.io/ and @logicsmag