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Look What I Found with HERVISIONS
Techno-futures and digital communication re-imagined through feminist rewilding
Join us at V&A East Storehouse for a participatory show-and-tell session with curator, artist, and founder of HERVISIONS, Zaiba Jabbar.
As part of Look What I Found with HERVISIONS, Zaiba draws on communication devices from the V&A’s collection to question our participation in digital futures. Her research begins by exploring the relationship between the Technophone – a popular mobile phone used in the late 1980s and early 1990s – and the technophobe, a term describing someone who fears or resits new technology. Zaiba asks:
How do communication devices create relationships that are both together and apart, familiar and unfamiliar? Like parasitic and symbiotic organisms, these technologies connect and distance us simultaneously. What might this reveal about who gets to participate in technological futures?
Through Look What I Found, Zaiba develops speculative documentation that considers technology as something shaped through social relationships, use and care, rather than a story of neutral, linear progress.
This residency extends Zaiba’s ongoing research into rewilding through digital feminist practices, supported by The Centre for Blended Realities at Falmouth University.
About HERVISIONS
HERVISIONS is a femme-focused curatorial agency based in London, founded by curator, researcher and educator Zaiba Jabbar in 2015. Working at the intersection of expanded moving image and digital media, HERVISIONS commissions exhibitions and events that centre accessibility and experimental practices within digital culture. Zaiba’s curatorial practice champions artists using emerging technologies to reimagine storytelling, identity and representation. Zaiba is also a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art.
As part of Look What I Found with HERVISIONS, Zaiba draws on communication devices from the V&A’s collection to question our participation in digital futures. Her research begins by exploring the relationship between the Technophone – a popular mobile phone used in the late 1980s and early 1990s – and the technophobe, a term describing someone who fears or resits new technology. Zaiba asks:
How do communication devices create relationships that are both together and apart, familiar and unfamiliar? Like parasitic and symbiotic organisms, these technologies connect and distance us simultaneously. What might this reveal about who gets to participate in technological futures?
Through Look What I Found, Zaiba develops speculative documentation that considers technology as something shaped through social relationships, use and care, rather than a story of neutral, linear progress.
This residency extends Zaiba’s ongoing research into rewilding through digital feminist practices, supported by The Centre for Blended Realities at Falmouth University.
About HERVISIONS
HERVISIONS is a femme-focused curatorial agency based in London, founded by curator, researcher and educator Zaiba Jabbar in 2015. Working at the intersection of expanded moving image and digital media, HERVISIONS commissions exhibitions and events that centre accessibility and experimental practices within digital culture. Zaiba’s curatorial practice champions artists using emerging technologies to reimagine storytelling, identity and representation. Zaiba is also a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art.
Header image: Zaiba Jabbar, founder of HERVISIONS