ILLUMINATOR

The Illuminator is an art-activist collective comprised of visual artists, educators, filmmakers, and technologists living and working in New York City... Political Principles: We are an artist-activist collective committed to social, environmental, and political engagement and transformation. Our political principles help us draw boundaries to guide us on the projects we undertake. We fundamentally value an intersectional approach to justice and liberation: racial, climate, housing, economic, health, immigrant, gender, educational, labor, language, and disability. We believe that true change requires dismantling all systems of oppression... We were able to initiate the project thanks to the Money Resource Group of Occupy Wall Street, which funded our initial purchases of equipment and our fabrication costs. Since July 2012, we have been independently self-funded on a bare-bones budget through the commissioned work that we occasionally do for grassroots organizations and groups,..

Also known as: The Illuminator