Ella Fitzgerald is a new media artist, researcher and educator. Their work examines the networks between the working class in the depths of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - driven technological automation. Fitzgerald is passionate about encouraging working-class communities to collectively re-imagine a world (or worlds) that centres them. Their work takes form in interactive code, archives, video and performance. 

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They use accessible mediums of creation and display to re-imagine the future. Harnessing collaboration to inspire the shaping of alternative futures for the viewer and participants. Fitzgerald aims to combine community outreach and accessible information to engage people with speculative futures and possibilities of living that centre those disregarded in society in the current social and political dystopia.

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Fitzgerald aspires to challenge the dystopian narrative around the working-class relationships to AI and alternatively, facilitate a space to discuss alternatives shaped by collective action and engagement. Working-class communities are continuously left out of the conversation of futures, what that will look like, whom it will hold space for and how it will function. Re-defining the relationship between class and AI is central to an automated future that doesn’t further push elitist agendas under a false pretence of non-existent machine neutrality.

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