Latest Project:
Flying Unicorn
In an attempt to establish a platform that can sustainably fund future community projects, I’m focusing full-time (for 2024-2025) on building a new fantasy-themed consumer brand for cannabis enthusiasts, called Flying Unicorn.
I’ve been burning the midnight oil (no pun intended) doing a shit load of research, brand design development, original vectorized illustrations, product prototyping, travelling domestically & internationally for B2B networking… basically soaking in and hustling out in these streets to learn about the intricacies and potential economic opportunities that are sprouting out of the US cannabis industry.
The goal of building this brand is to continue building accessible tool & community project spaces with profits generated from this consumer platform. I genuinely miss building & organizing creative spaces for artists (like makerspaces and DIY venues)… so the goal is to earmark profits from the platform as it grows to benefit community projects & partners who provide these super useful resources for artists to use for building their own careers.
Also — I’m honestly burnt out (and not in the good way!) from spending the past 10+ years having to re-invest & re-build vital DIY community spaces multiple times from issues with rising rent prices, landlords redeveloping properties, & cost of managing communal resources between artists & artist orgs… so, I’m going to play the Monopoly game a bit & see if the FU platform can sustainably be built to fund future community projects :)
PROJECT ARCHIVE | 2015-2022
Modelling Mutual Aid | FREE DOWNLOAD
I’ve organized 380+ workshops over the past 10+ years. My passions lie within meta-formations of workshopology as applied to accessible learning networks built by community members across the world.
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This zine is inspired by a course that I taught online for the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe called Modelling for Mutual Aid.
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Part of the course highlighted my experiences in organizing technical literacy projects for a variety of international learning spaces and community organizations.
Artist-in-Residence | PIFcamp 2022
PIFcamp is an annual summer hacking camp in the Slovenian alps that I enjoy attending every year (if possible).
In 2022, Projekt Atol (one of the camp organizers) selected me to be the PIF Artist-in-Residence for the weeklong hacker camp in early August 2022 as well as the host skill-building workshops at Projekt Atol’s creative space in the center of Slovenia’s capital city - Ljubljana.
During the 2 month residency, I created a skillshare workshop series that taught participants basic fabrication skills with the intention of applying those skills to storytelling media.
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PIFCAMP 2022 | Video credits: Projekt Atol & Videokeks.si | Ljubljana, Slovenia | 2022
Shout out to Rea, Tina, and Uros at Projekt Atol for selecting me for this opportunity — as well as the documentary crew, Domen and Maja of Videokeks.si, for filming & editing this awesome short film about my residency!
Previous Community Partners & Projects
Public Art Events, Design & Fabrication
2022 Founder & project lead VRT lab: networked educational eco-hacking, South River Art Studios (ATLANTA)
2021 Co-curator ‘20/20 Vision’ group exhibition, The Bakery Atlanta (ATLANTA)
2020 Lead technical designer & fabricator of free public food shelters, Free99Fridge (ATLANTA)
2019 House Sculpture (permanent installation inside main atrium), Pittsburgh Yards (ATLANTA)
2019 Founder & lead organizer for Common Circuits: A DIY Electronics Festival, The Bakery Atlanta (ATLANTA)
2018 Lead artist & fabricator for interactive DIY music venue, Mother Bar & Grill (Atlanta)
2018 Lead artist & fabricator for World’s Largest Bitcoin Sculpture, Atlanta Tech Village (ATLANTA)
2017 Photography for report on gentrification - ‘BeltLine For ALL’, Housing Justice League (ATLANTA)
2017 Featured streaming artist, 9to5.tv (ATLANTA)
Educational Community Partners
Since 2013, I’ve organized over 380+ publicly accessible educational workshops, meetups, conferences and festivals that promote technical literacy skill building and DIY creative opportunities for artists. I prioritize partnerships with arts & community organizations to teach equitable tech skills to artists that want to learn outside of traditional “institutional” learning structures.
NOTABLE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
2022-2022 PIFcamp Artist-in-Residence, Projekt Atol (SLOVENIA)
2021-2022 Operations manager, School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe (BERLIN)
2017-2021 “The” IT Dept & program curator, The Bakery Atlanta (ATLANTA)
2018-2019 Node leader for conference, Digital Naturalism Conference (THAILAND + PANAMA)
2017-2019 Guest lecturer at Innovation Lab, Spelman College (ATLANTA)
2017-2018 Program curator, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery (ATLANTA)
2017-2018 Lead community event organizer, Google Women Techmakers (ATLANTA)
2016-2018 Board of directors (treasurer) & program curator, Freeside Atlanta (ATLANTA)
2016-2017 Lead conference organizer & event speaker, DevFest Atlanta 2016 + 2017 (ATLANTA)
2015-2018 Lead community event organizer, Google Developer Group (ATLANTA)
Related Articles & Media
2023 Mainline Zine, “Grief Weavers: A Story of Collective Healing from Weelaunee”
2022 Free99Fridge VIDEO, “Ep 6: Floyd Upgrades + Community Cleanup”
2022 Free99Fridge VIDEO, “Ep 5: Preparing for Floyd Upgrades + Community Cleanup”
2022 Free99Fridge VIDEO, “Ep 4: Reorganizing HQ + Good Wipes Delivery”
2022 Free99Fridge VIDEO, “Ep 3: Michael Fridge Breakdown”
2022 Free99Fridge VIDEO, “Ep 2: Sandra Fridge Launch Day”
2021 Free99Fridge VIDEO, “Ep 1: Sandra Fridge Relocation”
2021 “Holigays Market: A Queer Artist Market”
2021 “Atlanta brings art to life with technology”
2021 “Say Gah! to: Quianah Upton”
2021 “How to Support Atlanta’s LGBTQ Community This Pride Month”
2021 “interview with maggie kane”
2021 “On the role of creativity when helping marginalised communities in capitalistic systems”
2021 “Modeling for Mutual Aid: Maggie Kane on how DIY community organizations can survive the pandemic”
2021 “The Bakery and 20/20 Vision: Placing Community at the Core of Art”
2020 Documentary, Lev Omel, “TWENTY”
2020 “Atlanta Downtown: Black Friday Virtual and IRL Fête”
2020 “Game Design Basics for Interactive Play & Sonic Game Jam!”
2020 VIDEO, Lev Omel, “R.I.P. (Revolution is Possible) Ad”
2020 “Atlanta Contemporary - Movement Love with Streetcat.media”
2019 “Creative Loafing - Common Circuits: A DIY Electronics Festival”
2019 “I WAS THERE: PRISM AT MOTHER”
2019 “Creative Loafing - DIY Wearables: Sewing LEDs”
2019 VIDEO, “Streetcat.media - Technoself Immersive”
2018 Atlanta Journal-Constitution ARTICLE “New holiday makerspace debuts at The Bakery” (print only)
2018 “The Bakery fosters homegrown creativity”
2018 “Digital Naturalism Conference: Maggie Kane”
2018 Google Women Techmakers VIDEO, “Women Techmakers Leads Summit 2017 in New York”
2017 “ATL Tech Scene: DevFest Atlanta 2017”
2017 “Woodruff Park and Freeside Atlanta Partnership Brings Pop Up Repair to Atlanta”
2017 “BELTLINING: GENTRIFICATION, BROKEN PROMISES, AND HOPE ON ATLANTA’S SOUTHSIDE”
2017 9to5.tv VIDEO, “Mimi Onuoha Discussion // Hosted by Streetcat.media // Live on 9 to 5”
2017 9to5.tv VIDEO, “Women Techmakers Panel: Maggie Kane, Jessica Anderson…”
2017 9to5.tv VIDEO, “Streetcat.media + NO/R: Exploring Wearable Fashion”
2017 “FIELD EXPERIMENT winner 9to5 explores audience relationships through live streaming”
2017 “Lil Data - Hard Attack Surface LIVE 2017”
2017 My Animation Life VIDEO, “Merchandising Your Art w/ Maggie Kane of Streetcat.media”