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| Index, 120 Walker St, 3rd Fl |
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Sep 21 (Sun) , 2025 @ 02:00 PM
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$25 |
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How are creatives in NYC reclaiming, reimagining, & rewiring AI futures?
TechnoMirage is a half-day creative gathering exploring AI & speculative futures as tools for reclaiming, reimagining & making together. Across an afternoon of panel, workshop, installation & performance, we'll ask: What stories does AI erase-and which ones can we reclaim? How can we turn the gap between promised tomorrows & lived realities into fertile ground for new visions?
The afternoon unfolds in three acts:
RECLAIM: An artist panel featuring Carrie Wang, Luca Lee, & Munus Shih, who challenge extractive AI narratives & reclaim the technology as a tool for resistance, care, & agency;
REIMAGINE: A speculative workshop led by Liminal, where we'll explore how creatives might live, work, & relate to AI in the future-centering critical imagination, plurality, & collective visioning;
REWIRE: A live sonic performance by Mason Youngblood, weaving together archival recordings with interacting artificial agents to evoke echoes of vanished voices in a speculative soundscape. And throughout the afternoon: Octologue by Interactive Items - eight AI-augmented figures, continuously present as living philosophical voices, from stoicism to mysticism, debating & reimagining human wisdom in real time.
Together, these sessions open a rare space to not just talk about AI's futures, but to hear them, shape them, & step inside them.
Program
2:00-2:15: Reception
2:15-3:45: RECLAIM (Artist Panel)
3:45-5:00: REIMAGINE (Speculative Futures Workshop)
5:00-6:00: REWIRE (Artistic Performance)
Featured Artists
Mason Youngblood
Mason Youngblood is a behavioral scientist & sound artist at Stony Brook University, where he studies culture, creativity, & communication in human & non-human animals. His recent work combines computational methods like machine learning & agent-based modeling to explore the complexity & structure of bird & whale songs, offering new insights into the cultural lives of these species. Through his sound art, Mason reconstructs the lost songs of extinct animals, creating immersive experiences that deepen empathy & inspire action for wildlife conservation.
Interactive Items
Interactive Items is a studio exploring art that emerges here & now, in a live dialogue with the viewer.
The studio's primary medium is real-time neural networks, dissolving the boundary between concept & execution to create artworks that unfolds before the viewer's eyes. A defining aspect of Interactive Items is its emphasis on co-creation. The audience is not merely an observer but an active participant whose inner world profoundly influences the final outcome. This approach unlocks boundless creative possibilities, transforming the artistic experience into a shared act of creation.The Interactive Items project was founded by Vadim & Alena Mirgorodskaya, with significant support from Alexey Roslevich.
Carrie Sijia Wang
Carrie Sijia Wang is a socially-engaged artist & educator whose work investigates the relationships between human & machine, technology & power, language & alienation. Working with software, video, participatory experience, & performance, she creates digital fragments of reality that explore what it means to be human in a machine-coded world.
Wang is an inaugural Working Artist Fellow at Pioneer Works, a 2023 More Art fellow, a Year 8 member of NEW INC, & a 2020 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient. She has presented work with venues including New Museum, Onassis Foundation, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, & A.I.R.Gallery. Wang teaches as an adjunct at New York University. Additionally, she is the creator of Whose AI? - a series of hands-on workshops designed for underserved youth to explore AI & its social implications.
Luca Lee
Luca Lee works as a transmedia artist & researcher. Recent works explore queer identity & speculative fiction in-and beyond-the human-centered framework as world-making practices through extended reality, 3D arts, & artificial intelligence. Born & raised in Chile & based in the US since 2015, he has presented his work internationally & locally including Dok Leipzig - Dok Exchange XR (Germany), FILE Festival (Brazil), The Holy Art Gallery (UK), Vasulka Kitchen Brno (Czech Republic), the Salvador Allende Museum (Chile), ChaShama (US), Experimental Intermedia (US), & Mayday Space (US), among other grounded & virtual spaces. He has received residencies & fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Foreign Objekt, Culture Push, New Art City, & Silver Arts Projects.
Munus Shih
Munus Shih is a Taiwanese Minnan-Hakka creative technologist & educator building tools & spaces for decolonial, queer, & collective use of technology. They are a co-founder of Free99, a creative coding practice, & Co-Assembly/SpOnAcT!, a Taiwan-based cooperative exploring data storytelling through research & organizing. In 2023, Munus co-organized Processing Community Day Taiwan, curating a landmark event centering queer, femme, & grassroots voices in creative tech.
Their work, including p5.zine, Syllabus (Subject to Change), & Duty Free, has been exhibited & supported by NEW INC x New Museum DEMO Festival, the Taiwanese Hakka Affairs Council, & the Open Source Art Contributors Conference. They have presented talks & workshops at institutions such as NYU ITP, Cooper Union, SVA, Type@Cooper, Typographics, The Dalton School, Type Electives, & Google Developer Group DevFest. A Processing Foundation Fellow, Munus holds an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design & teaches at Pratt Institute as an Assistant Professor of Critical Technology.
Julienne is a designer turned futures practitioner encouraging people to think, feel, & act differently for the long-term. As the founder of Liminal, a design futures agency, she blends strategic foresight, systems thinking, & design methodologies to develop strategies 5+ years into the future. Julienne is an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design where she teaches courses across AI, design, & strategic foresight. She conducts research with the university at the intersection of creativity, AI, & the future of labor. She is co-founder of the embodied futures collective, & chapter lead of Futures Friends NYC.
Amy Xiaofan Jiang is a designer, artist & curator working at the intersection of technology, speculative futures, & collective world-building. Her work often creates participatory infrastructures for artistic communities navigating hybrid forms & precarious conditions.
In 2022, she founded Underground Art & Design (UAAD), an online platform uplifting experimental practices across art, design, & emerging technologies & has organized virtual & in-person events, including exhibitions, panels, performances, & workshops. These projects center interdisciplinary dialogue & have engaged international audiences through collaborations with emerging artists & activists.
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