Macro Waves is a Bay Area, CA-based creative collective made of artists, designers, and technologists of color, producing experiences centered on social practice, conceptual art, new media, and design. The collective was founded in 2015 and includes members Anum Awan, Robin Birdd David, Dominic Cheng, Tina Kashiwagi, and Jeffrey Yip. Macro Waves projects examine systems, infrastructures, and processes of future world-building through storytelling from a science fiction-based lens. Their practice focuses on introspective work around ancestry, intergenerational experiences, and collective care.

Macro Waves is the current recipient of the 2023-2024 California Arts Council Impact Project Grant. The collective recently received Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure grant, the California Arts Council Impact Project Grant, and former Artists in Residence at Recology (AIR), San Francisco. In 2022, the collective was the Featured Artist for the Asian Pacific Island Cultural Center’s 25th Annual United States of Asian America Festival and participated in the Youkobo Artist Residency in Tokyo, Japan, in 2020.

Saturday, May 4 (1 PM - 3 PM) Macro Waves has offered to take SEE(d) on a deep dive walking tour of their two projects—The Bridge at Chinese Historic Society of America and Collective Futures on view at the Edge on the Square gallery in Chinatown San Francisco. Both installations were inspired by the resiliency of Asian American communities in the US in the face of collective loss and dislocation. Purchase tickets here. Wine, culinary bites, and good company included.