With a focus on labor organizing within the arts and tech industries, Software for Artists Book 3 explores the potential of creating alternative networks of education and challenging the material conditions that prevent us from enacting new realities with dignity and security.

When we defy existing models for institution-building, what possibilities for gathering can materialize and what kinds of learning and unlearning can we practice together?

Released alongside Pioneer Works’ eighth Software for Artists Day and the School for Poetic Computation’s 10th anniversary in November 2023, this book convenes educators, labor organizers and artists exploring experimental learning initiatives to be in solidarity and conversation with each other.

Contributors include Kandis Williams, manuel arturo abreu, Rahel Aima, Kameela Janan Rasheed, American Artist, Shani Peters, Neema Githere, Ayana Cotton, Lynn Yunn, Yatu Espinosa, Norm O’Hagan, Sam Lavigne, Or Zublasky and Dana Kopel.

Designed by Daniel Kent

Edited by Zainab Aliyu, School for Poetic Computation

Published by Pioneer Works Press, 2023

Softcover, 128 pages, 60 b&w images, 4.75 × 8.25 inches

ISBN: 978-1-94-571119-0