Grantee Database

Macro Waves

Grant Year

2023-24

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$21,250.00

Project Description

With the support from the California Arts Council, Macro Waves will produce Re-worlding the Unimaginable, a collaborative multi-sensory exhibition exploring what it means to imagine an unimaginable future for humanity. Rooted in an abolitionist framework, Re-worlding the Unimaginable is a series of narratives posing questions that aid us in rethinking potential futures. What if colonizers gave back the land they stole? What if the industrial prison complex was abolished? What are the dangers of relying on Artificial Intelligence models such as predictive policing? Re-worlding The Unimaginable posits issues of community destabilization, colonialism, and capitalism as deeply connected intersectional systems while offering an immersive exhibition experience that uses emerging technology as a critical tool for cultivating a stimulating environment where participants can engage in inquiry and re-imagine futures of what is possible.

Organization Summary

Macro Waves develops interdisciplinary projects and public programs that merge conceptual art, emerging technology, and community engagement to explore collective healing, cultural storytelling, and future world-building. Our work centers participatory experiences that foster connection, reflection, creativity, and dialogue across diverse communities. Macro Waves specializes in creating immersive exhibitions, experiential installations, experimental performances, and healing-centered public programming. Through interactive and site-responsive experiences, we invite audiences to engage with art as a catalyst for radical imagination, community resilience, and collective transformation.
As a creative studio, Macro Waves also offers a range of artistic and technical services that support artists, nonprofits, and cultural institutions in developing impactful public experiences. Our services include art direction, creative technology consulting, environmental and exhibition design, fabrication, installation design, motion graphics, video production, projection mapping, live-stream production, print production, digital storytelling, and virtual exhibition development. Collaboration is central to our practice as an art collective and creative studio. We work closely with community organizations, educators, organizers, and cultural practitioners to co-create projects that are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to community needs and aspirations. By integrating art, design, storytelling, and emerging technology, we create spaces where people can gather, share experiences, and envision more equitable and interconnected futures together.

Organization

Macro Waves

Address

1420 45th ST #50,

Emeryville

94608

County

Alameda

Region

Bay Area – Other

Email

Congressional District

12th Congressional district of California.

State Assembly District

District 18

State Senate District

District 7

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