I am a tech justice scholar and visual artist writing, coding and designing the augmented undercommons and a liberatory future.
Featured Projects
Recent Research Papers:
(Under Review) Payton Croskey, Ruha Benjamin, and Jennifer Jacobs. 2026. The Augmented Undercommons: A Framework for Liberatory HCI Research within Ethically Compromised Institutions.
Payton Croskey, Fabian Offert, Jennifer Jacobs, and Kai M. Thaler. 2025. Liberatory Collections and Ethical AI: Reimagining AI Development from Black Community Archives and Datasets. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 900–913. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715275.3732058
Ana María Cárdenas Gasca*, Payton Croskey*, Tobias Höllerer, Kai M Thaler, Emilia Yang, and Jennifer Jacobs. 2025. Lessons from AR Memorialization: Artists’ and Activists’ Approaches to Responsible AR Development. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 40–58. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735815
*Both authors contributed equally to this research
The augmented undercommons is a framework for the subversive designer to create liberatory, culturally situated technologies that undermine, reimagine, or dismantle harmful technical and political systems
By examining speculative fashion proposals and Black cultural approaches to clothing design and textiles, I aim to draw attention to fashion’s profound impact on social realities. In doing so, I endeavor to challenge the values and practices that underpin these creations.
Liberatory Tech & Digital Marronage
We delved into the development of technology centered on the principles of liberation and digital marronage, while paying respect to community knowledge.
Payton Croskey 