American Cyborg was founded and incorporated in New York because we love the state and believe in being part of its stewardship. We are a New York company by choice: part of a local, geographical community whose cultural and civic institutions we value and support.

Our mission is to create financial stability for human artists through automation. We build tools, archives, exhibitions, publications, and other structures that support creative work while investing in the communities in which that work takes place.

Community engagement, patronage of the arts, ecological sustainability, and health and well-being in the workplace have been at the heart of our business since its founding.

Our Philosophy

We believe technology should support human creativity rather than replace it.

We also believe technology exists within communities, governments, economies, and ecosystems. It is never placeless. The systems we build — and the standards we choose to follow — are part of our responsibility to the people and places around us.

American Cyborg supports the work of local and state institutions seeking to protect the environment, strengthen communities, support artists and workers, and establish meaningful public standards for rapidly changing technologies.

We think about this relationship through three interconnected systems: Plant, Animal, and Machine. A healthy technological culture must remain accountable to the human and more-than-human worlds in which it operates.

Our Policy

We maintain best practices in privacy and security. To protect both ourselves and our community, we voluntarily look to strong public standards — including those established by New York, California, and the European Union — as our baseline.

We believe thoughtful regulation and public standards are necessary counterweights to technological systems whose scale and power can otherwise exceed the ability of individuals and local communities to shape them.

We collect as little information as our work requires. We favor user ownership, portability, understandable systems, and durable archives.

The archive belongs to the artist. The machine is there to help.