Those who rebuilt: Lovers Against the Machine

The faces and thoughts of the Salzburg Media Academy cohort of 2024. Below is a photobook of all students, faculty, and interns who imagined together.

We asked all participants to read, reflect, and respond to

a) the poem ‘The Robots Are Coming’ by Kyle Dargan

OR

b) Asimov’s ‘3 laws of robotics’ …

Faces, 2024 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change

Agustina: “Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant” — Joan Didion

Alexandria: “no matter what happens in life be good to people. being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind” — Taylor Swift.

Surya: “Create the beauty that moves the world. If you want love be love. If you want peace be peace.” — Coldplay

Alexis: “Your life’s short, don’t ever question the length / Its cool to cry, don’t ever question your strength.” -Mac Miller

Allison: “Everything will be okay in the end. If it isn’t okay, it isn’t the end.” — Paulo Coelho

Andrea: “Make interesting, amazing, glorious, fantastic mistakes. Break Rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.” Neil Gaiman (Art Matters)

Anthony: “You are what you eat, in all aspects.”

Antonia: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker

Aubrey: “Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.” — RBG

Audrey: “The hills are alive with the sound of learning, laughing, and living together at the Media Academy”

Bobbie: “If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.” — Margret Mead

Braden: “Love is life and hate is living death.” — Black Sabbath

Caitlin: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford

Camila: “Always questioning”

Carlos: “No mentir, no robar, no traicionar al pueblo”

Carol: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Carolina: “Hace más ruido un hombre gritando, que cien mil que están callados”, José de San Martín.

Chan: “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” — Bob Marley

Chris: “…our incompleteness gives us hope. It is our incompleteness that inclines us toward one another” -Paulo Freire

Claudia: “Your character is more important than how good you are at the sport [or anything else you do]. Your athleticism is temporary… but your character lasts forever.” -Athlete and coach Jill Kuhn*

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” — Kurt Vonnegut

Eira: “Violento es tener que escoger entre el pan o el pasaje”. anónimo

Elizabeth: Democracy dies in darkness

Emily Beshada: “The best things in life, the very best things happen unexpectedly” — Donna (Mamma Mia!)

Emily Bracher: “but to feel nothing so as not to feeling anything — what a waste!”

Ethan: “We need to work to make care the first line of defense, rather than the last line of redress.” — Nishant Shah

Florencia: “Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide”. C.S. Lewis

Gemma: “Not all those who wander are lost”

Johanna: “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” -African proverb quoted by the Dalai Lama

Hamza: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, Love as if they knows it’s gonna be Eternal. Learn as if you were to live forever in the paradise universe.”

Hanan: “It is ridiculous, says pride, It is careless, says caution, It is impossible, says experience, It is what it is, says love” -Erich Fried, Austrian poet

Icela: “We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Inês: “Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.” -Paulo Freire

Israel: Refer to Shashank V’s quote

Jason: “It is true, political problems are not solved by love and mercy. But the world of politics is not the only world, and unless political decisions rest on a foundation of something better and higher than politics, they can never do any real good for men.” — Thomas Merton

Jennifer: “La lucha es dura, pero más dura es la vida de quienes no luchan” -Rigoberta Menchú

Julius: Came, saw, worked and enjoyd in a way that i have never done before and left with a bright smile and never ending memories

Anjelica: Let’s work with our differences towards a common goal.

Karen: “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night” -Edgar Allan Poe

“Change never happens at the pace we think it should. It happens over years of people joining together, strategizing, sharing, and pulling all the levers they possibly can. Gradually, excruciatingly slowly, things start to happen, and then suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, something will tip.” -Judy Heumann

Katrin: “Technology may drive the future, but it’s the human stories and connections that truly shape our world.”

Lahana: “Do the right thing, even when nobody’s watching.”

Lana: “Passion knows no Society”- Lana Najdi

Leonard: “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lex: “Live like every second is your last. Take nothing for granted”

Lily: “Some people you meet for the first time, and then you get to know them. Then there are the very few that you get to meet for the first time and instantly recognize.” — Jury Nel

Logan: “We’re only ever as strong as all the times that we’ve been wrong.” -My sister, Hailey

Luis: “No one warns us, but hell lives within us in the form of indifference.” Leila Guerriero, Argentinian journalist

Mariana: “Yo soy boricua pa’ que tu lo sepas”. Sería borincana aunque naciera en la luna, todo lo que hago será para Puerto Rico

Marissa: “Be where your feet are.”

Mary: “If you’re truly happy doing what you’re doing, no one can tell you that you are unsuccessful.”

Matthew: “It’s so weird to think that every restaurant I see is the result of some person going ‘I think I want to start a restaurant.’” — Tracy Fishko

Megan: “Advancements in technology unlock new possibilities, propelling us towards a brighter and more connected future.”

Molly: “Healers and warriors are not opposites; they are complementaries. Moving beyond binaries, we need not embrace one and reject the other. We can hold them both as one.” -Fania Davis, from the Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice

Naram: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Natalia: “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself” de Carl Gustav Jung

Pablo: “We need to let go to have the ability to identify what needs to change” — Pablo Martinez-Zárate

Paul: “We are put on earth a little space. That we may learn to bear the beams of love” — William Blake

Paula: “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” -Maya Angelou

Prerana: “Everything in the UNIVERSE is within you, Ask all from YOURSELF” — Rumi

Nishant: “It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it” — Terry Pratchett

Regina: “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing towards what will be.” Khalil Gibran

Rein: “It is not what we have, but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.”-kristin hannah

Roman

Sammi: “Always explore; listen to the world around you and embrace new perspectives.”

Sanjeev: Barely a twelvemonth after, The seven days war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange horses came. By then we had made our covenant with silence, But in the first few days it was so still, We listened to our breathing and were afraid. On the second day, The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer. — The Horses, Edwin Muir

Serene: “for dawn to come, there must be those who dare to pierce the darkness with their light.” — diluc ragnvindr

Shashank: Refer to Taylor Whelchel’s quote

Stephen: Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e’en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.

Johnny: The world belongs to the brave

Taylor: Refer to Israel Campos’s quote

Thawab: “Why be a star when you can make a constellation?” — Naomi Murakawa

Vagmi: “If you don’t fight for what you want, Don’t cry for what you lost.” -Lord Krishna (BG 2.38)

Valeria: “Hope”

Jad: “If I must die, you must live, to tell my story…” -Palestinian poet refaat Alareer

Liana: “Something’s lost but something’s gained in living every day.”

Madeline: “You are complete in your incompleteness.” -Chris Harris

Natalie: “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” Dolly Parton

Tiara: “You must work in the dark for your light to shine.’’’I’d rather slap you with the truth than kiss you with a lie.” — Russ

Zoe: “We need to let go to have the ability to idenitfy what needs to change” — Pablo Martinez-Zárate

Mia: “It doesn’t matter what’s been written in your story so far, it’s how you fill up the rest of the pages that counts.”

Sangita

Amy & Will

Manny Chavez, Sallie Hughes, Boriana Treadwell, Manuel Guerrero, Olisa Dellas and others also rebuilt loving futures with us.

They join us in solidarity!