Seeking Mavis Beacon: College screening

One of the most influential Black women in technology is a figment of our collective imagination - Mavis Beacon was invented by the Co-Founder of MySpace to sell the world's most popular typing software, but the real woman she was modeled after disappeared in 1995.

Seeking Mavis Beacon poses critical questions regarding anthropomorphization and the consumption of marginalized bodies in the tech industry, while reimagining the legacy of a missing historical figure.

'Soundly rejects the unjust demands for perfection dealt out to women of colour by society' - Thomas Boyd, Little White Lies

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