Eyebeam, 185 Wythe Avenue, New York, NY (2026)

04/22/2026

🎉Introducing Eyebeam's 2026 residents: Speculating on Plurality

What would it take to build technology that holds our multitudes rather than flattening them? That's the question at the heart of Speculating on Plurality, Eyebeam's 2026 artist residency. This year's cohort—6 NYC–based emerging artists working across disciplines from experimental theater to spatial audio to AI agents—begins their 12-week residency this month.

“We're living in a moment where technology is flattening difference at an extraordinary scale. The six artists we selected bring deep curiosity and real range to how they address [hyper-contemporary] issues—from land-based practices to algorithmic composition to experimental theater. Each of them is modeling what it looks like to insist on plurality in how we design, build, and live with technology.” —Julia Kaganskiy, Executive Director

The artists join Eyebeam’s residency to imagine plural technological futures at NYU Tandon at The Yard, a partner facility for integrative research in AR/VR/XR, virtual production, and experiential computing.
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🔗 Read more about the artists at eyebeam.org/2026-residents

✨the 2026 residents ✨
Aurora Mititelu
Avery Alex Beige
Chloe Alexandra Thompson
dre r. Jácome
Kira Xonorika
Umber Majeed
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Eyebeam worked with a diverse jury panel representing the fields of art and technology that helped us select artists who demonstrate a purposeful relationship to technology, social urgency, and impact. We send our thanks to:

✨the 2026 Jury ✨
Bahareh Khoshooee
Mark Ramos
Paul John
Stephanie Dinkins
Julia Kaganskiy

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Photo Captions: Slide 4 - Portrait of Eyebeam Speculating on Plurality Resident 2026, Avery Alex Beige. Image Credit: The Nonbinary Research Facility; Slide 5 - Portrait of Eyebeam Speculating on Plurality Resident 2026, Aurora Mititelu. IPhoto credit: Garrett Alvarado; Slide 6 - Portrait of Eyebeam Speculating on Plurality Resident 2026, Chloe Alexandra Thompson. Photo credit: Amelie Jackie; Slide 7 - Portrait of Eyebeam Speculating on Plurality Resident 2026, dre jácome. Image Credit: Belen Marco-Crespo; Slide 8 - Portrait of Eyebeam Speculating on Plurality Resident 2026, Kira Xonorika. Image Credit: Katarzyna Marszałek; Slide 9 - Portrait of Eyebeam Speculating on Plurality Resident 2026, Umber Majeed. Image Credit: Adeliia Ishmuratova.

04/06/2026

🔊Eyebeam is delighted to announce the appointment of Julia Kaganskiy, as our new Executive Director! She steps into her new role today, April 6, 2026.

As a renowned institution builder, independent curator, and cultural strategist, she brings more than 16 years of experience developing innovative cultural programs bridging arts, science, and technology to Eyebeam. Julia was the founding Director of NEW INC, at the New Museum (2014-2018), and the Global Editor for VICE Media's The Creators Project (2010-2013), a groundbreaking media platform and cultural festival program.

“The art and tech landscape, and our relationship to technology as a whole, look remarkably different from when Eyebeam was first founded more than 25 years ago. Yet the need for an organization that helps us orient and make sense of technology's impact on society, and imagine how it might be otherwise, has never been more urgent. Eyebeam's support of artists who are making bold, challenging work is something I am passionate about continuing. I'd also like to strengthen Eyebeam's community relationships and its role as a convener.”

We are excited to begin building the next chapter of Eyebeam with Julia!

🔗Read a few words from her at the link here: eyebeam.org/message-from-julia-kaganskiy

📸Photo caption: Portrait of Julia Kaganskiy. Image Credit: Nathalie Salazar.

[Image Description: Portrait of Julia Kaganskiy, with medium-length, honeyed brown hair tied back, standing in a light-filled studio space. This picture was taken at Studio Alto, a residency in Costa Rica, nestled on the hilltops of Playa Grande, in a sun-filled room amidst a lush green mountainscape reflected throughout the windows of this space.]

03/09/2026

Exciting news: Eyebeam is honored to announce that we received a grant from ’s FY2026 Cultural Development Fund (CDF)!! Art and culture are the heart and soul of New York, and we’re proud to be among the nearly 1,200 groups receiving city support this year thanks to the partnership between the ’s Office and the City Council.

This investment in our work will help us bring accessible, affordable cultural programs to our community. Our CDF grant will support our residency, Speculating on plurality!

Image description: A graphic with a yellow-green and white warped checker background with the following text in blue: “We’re a Fiscal Year 2026, Cultural Development Fund, Grantee.” The NYC Cultural Affairs logo appears in the bottom right of the graphic.

03/02/2026

▇〓▄ ANNOUNCING OPEN CALL FOR EYEBEAM’S SPECULATING ON PLURALITY RESIDENCY FOR EMERGING ARTISTS ▇〓▄ We invite emerging artists, technologists, and writers, within the first ten years of their career, to consider the central prompt, “What is required to move us towards a pluralistic commons - a space that holds our multitudes and their potentials towards shared futures? ” with curiosity, play, and expansiveness. Eyebeam offers Speculating on Plurality as a prompt to instigate and to imagine new frameworks, interventions, or inventions to address the issues and ideas most critical to building the futures we seek.▪️▪️▪️Six (6) New York-based emerging artists, in the first decade of their career, will be selected for a 12-week in-person residency @ The Yard in Brooklyn, awarded $4,000 stipend, 9 AM to 9 PM weekday (monday-friday) access to a shared studio space and a dedicated desk, alongside weekly production support from NYU graduate assistants onsite, and mentorship with Eyebeam alumni and professionals in the field. The deadline for submissions is on Friday, March 20, at 11:59 PM Eastern. Learn more and apply through the link in Bio.▪️▪️▪️ [Image Description: static image, background in abstracted haze of deep blue and magenta, with text that reads, “Open Call, apply by march 20”]

02/17/2026

Mohanty, a trained printmaker, discussed how his exposure to video art and performance during his matriculation at the National Museum Institute, New Delhi, led him to his more recent focus on examining “how algorithmic networking, digitalization, data mining, accumulation,” shape public perception about natural calamities within marginalized communities.

For his VH AWARD commissioned video project, “Rice Hunger Sorrow,” adapted from the Mahabharata, an epic mediating on the death of Lord Krishna and the subsequent mass flood drowning of the city of Dwarka, is interpolated into a contemporary context. Mohanty brings references from recent anthropegenic disasters that have irrversibly altered landscapes across coast of the Bay of Bengal, shooting video in Odisha, “where [the] recurring tsunamis, super cyclones, and land erosion” are constantly “changing geopolitics, culture and landscapes.” This video-based exploration, illustrates how new technologies and their manufactured common aesthetics affect the ‘solidarity’ debate around ecological issues.
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To read the interview in its entirety, 🖇️link in bio🖇
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🖼️ 1: Portrait of Eyebeam alum artist 2021, Paribartana Mohanty. Courtesy of the artist; 🖼️ 3+4: Paribartana Mohanty, ‘Rice Hunger Sorrow,’ 2021. Video. Supported by the 5th VH AWARD, and presented by the Hyundai ArtLab, .artlab, Hyundai Motor Group. ©2023 Paribartana Mohanty. Courtesy of the artist;
🖼️5: A painting, Paribartana Mohanty’s ‘Immersive Sky Experience,’ 2022.
🖼️6+ 7: Immersive Sky Experience, AI Mediated Web-Based Interactive Platform, 2025. Conceptualised and Created by Paribartana Mohanty. Technical Assistance: Francis Burger, with assistance from Theron Burger. Research assistance: Gita Ballava Nandan Dash and Jyoti Ranjan Sahoo. Supported by Sharjah Art Foundation Production Grant, 2022, and the Prince Claus Mentorship Award for Cultural & Artistic Responses to Environmental Change, 2023.

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02/10/2026

📺Inspired by the FRIES model of consent—Freely Given, Reversible, Informative, Enthusiastic, Specific—Artist Xin Xin, tells us they developed “TogetherNet” alongside software developer, Charlotte Yaqing Wen, Eyebeam alums and lead project writer Neema Githere, and project advisor Lauren Lee McCarthy, .
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TogetherNet, a “peer-to-peer communication software designed for micro communities to archive private and public chat logs,” connects the ideas of “sovereignty, democracy, and community as they relate to archives, including those in the digital sphere.” The project melds the ethos of data transparency and consent, with the purpose of transforming digital rights policies, such as the right to be forgotten, into an embodied practice that reimagines online social interaction and the protocols and architecture used to connect us all.
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To read the interview in its entirety, 🖇️link in bio 🖇
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Captions 🖼️ 1: Portrait of Eyebeam alum artist 2020-2021, Xin Xin. Courtesy of the artist; 🖼️ 3: Xin Xin, ‘Togethernet’ 2020-2021. Software and web application. Supported by Eyebeam through the 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Age Fellowship; 🖼️ 4 + 5: Poster from workshops, facilitated by Dorothy R. Santos, and Xin Xin, presented at Eyebeam and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Consentful Protocol” series. Graphic Design by Livia Foldes, . 

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01/29/2026

As our communities prepare for the national general strike on January 30th, Eyebeam expresses its solidarity with the organizers and brave citizens resisting the state-mandated terror of ICE in the city of Minneapolis and Nationwide. Abolish ICE.

Please head to nationalshutdown.org for a list of community actions.

01/27/2026

💐“During the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns… I found that I was missing a way to connect socially online without resorting to using a multibillion-dollar US-based company.” Eyebeam alum artist Constant Dullaart, shares with art writer Cassie Packard, .
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Starting in 2020, Dullaart created common.garden, “an artisanal social exhibition platform… based on spontaneous audio/video interaction.” Wanting a “grass-roots lockdown alternative to the chess club or neighborhood bar,” he invites digital peers to “meet each other in preferred contexts without a steep learning curve or other barriers to access,” and curators from all over the world to realize a project of any kind in a ‘garden.’ Dullaart now runs DISTANT.gallery, .gallery, a foundation that runs on top of common.garden’s software, which has hosted over 40 exhibitions with artists from across the globe, from NYC, Baghdad, Shiraz, Amsterdam, Bogota, Kinshasa, Seoul, and many more.

To read the interview in its entirety, 🖇️link in bio 🖇
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🖼️ slide 1: Portrait of Eyebeam alum artist 2020, Constant Dullaart. Courtesy of the artist
🖼️3: Screenshot of ‘Social Bouquet,’ Constant Dullaart, 2020. Hosted in common.garden. Part of IDFA DocLab, , Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL, 2022.
🖼️4: Screenshot. Constant Dullaart, ‘DISTANT.gallery’. A non-profit foundation and online platform for virtual gathering and exhibition, running on the common.garden software.
🖼️5: Screenshot of opening on DISTANT.gallery of ‘Foundation Festival’ organised by Videotage, .
🖼️6: Screenshot of opening on DISTANT.gallery of ‘African ‘Bone-Breakers’ Challenge You To Watch THIS ACTS Without Looking Away For One Second’ a solo exhibition by Isaac Kariuki, , 2023.
🖼️7: Screenshot from “Futura Tropica Bogota,” curated by Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa , hosted at DISTANT.gallery online platform, 2022.

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01/20/2026

📺Back in 2023 Eyebeam alum artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi, shares with art writer Cassie Packard, , his interests in the ways that “fictions, and the world-building that happens through them, can create imagination around present issues.”

For his VH AWARD commissioned video project, “Fossilis” (2023), Rizaldi generates a story of future paleo-media-archeologists uncovering mountains of electronic “carcasses” buried underneath tropical landscapes of the Global South, fossil relics that were left behind by ancient humans, us. The researcher uses these fossils as datasets to virtually “construct worlds where this electronic waste can be observed.” The artist cinematically presents climate issues through the lens of indonesia, where in Bangka Island, a ceaseless deluge of un-degradable electronic wastes shipped from the US and many parts of the imperial core, the artist imagines these speculative artifacts to serve how humans might understand nature in the future.
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To read the interview in its entirety, 🖇️link in bio 🖇
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🖼️ Caption 1: Portrait of Eyebeam alum artist 2023, Riar Rizaldi. Photograph by Kay Beadman; Caption 3 and 4: Riar Rizaldi, ‘Fossilis,’ 2023. One-channel, colour and sound (stereo), video. 12 Minutes, 56 Seconds. Supported by the 5th VH AWARD, and presented by the Hyundai ArtLab, .artlab, Hyundai Motor Group. ©2023 Riar Rizaldi. Courtesy of the artist. Caption 5: Installation view at Hyundai Vision Hall, South Korea 2023. Images courtesy of © VH Award. Caption 6: Installation view at Ars Electronica, Linz 2023. Images courtesy of DEEP SPACE 8K, Photo: Martin Hieslmair.

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01/15/2026

New year, new edition of ‘Feed’ will be featured here on IG, highlighting oral history interviews conducted by Cassie Packard, , an art writer and editor at . Eyebeam looks at four artists whose emergent explorations address the issues and ideas most critical to building the futures we seek. In the artist’s examinations of technologies and their near-compulsory and exploitative integration into every facet of our lives, they scrutinize the altered conditions of our relationships with ourselves, our (digital and natural) ecosystems, and each other. 🔗Links in bio!🔗

Riar Rizaldi, →
“exploring how technology is understood by people who live in a humid, tropical area that is, on one hand, a dumping ground for electronic waste, and on the other, a center for natural resources like tin that are used to manufacture those same objects.”
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Constant Dullaart, →
“Reality can be an oppressive construct; to be challenged at all times. Art can prompt you to see differently and shift your perspective. Artists can dream up incorrect, weird, non-efficient, non-solutionary uses of technology and different modes of using technology that don’t involve the outrageous data mining that we’ve become accustomed to.”
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Xin Xin, →
“Being an artist is akin to asking questions that nobody really has answers to, prototyping from that, and—hopefully—stimulating new thoughts, new ideas, or new ways forward. It’s kind of like putting a ball in the world and seeing, does anyone catch it? How is it caught, and what happens next?”
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Paribartana Mohanty, →
“In the socioeconomic background I come from, the question of ‘technology’ boils down to ecosystems of access and freedom, which relate to factors like class and caste. First, you enable access, which allows for scope; then there’s the possibility of expanding the technology from a human perspective.”

ID of artists in alt-text and captions in the comments.

12/16/2025

In October, we announced Speculating on Plurality, a program calling on artists to imagine new frameworks, interventions, or inventions addressing hyper-contemporary issues and ideas most critical to building the (plural) futures we seek.

In November, we kicked off the season with Urgent Inquiries, moderated alumni conversations at Secret Riso Club, inviting artists back into dialogue with our community. These conversations, featuring Eyebeam alums Xin Xin , Bahareh Khoshooee , Ari Melenciano , Tega Brain , and Sam Lavigne , and moderators Vivian Chui and Julia Kaganskiy , set the foundation for alums to contribute to the ideas that will be explored in the upcoming season of programming.

Building on this momentum, we are raising $25,000 as a part of The Next 25 Campaign, investing in the frameworks, interventions, and inventions that will shape the next 25 years.

Our Board has committed to a $10,000 match opportunity, where every tax-deductible gift made by you all will be matched by them dollar-for-dollar until December 31st. So far, we have reached $7,874 of our $25,000 goal!

Your gift to Eyebeam clears the path for artists building the plural futures we seek. Give today. Help us reach our goal by Dec 31, 2025! 🖇️Link in bio🖇️

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Slides 1, 2, and 3, Captured film shots of ‘Urgent Inquiries with Ari Melenciano, Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, and Vivian Chui, at Secret Riso Club, presented by Eyebeam, November 11, 2025. Photography by Dillon McNeil, .
Slide 4, 5, and 6, Captured shots of ‘Urgent Inquiries with Bahareh Khoshooee and Xin Xin, moderated by Julia Kaganskiy, at Secret Riso Club, presented by Eyebeam, November 17, 2025. Photography by Cindy Trinh, .photo.

12/02/2025

𝐀 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝:

This fall, Eyebeam launched the 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 program series, inviting our alumni and emerging artists to explore how art and technology can help us navigate and transform the complex world we share. It’s the first step in what we’re calling 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵 25, a commitment to building Eyebeam’s next quarter century as a home for justice-driven, artist-centered exploration. To keep this work going, we have set the goal of raising $25,000 by the end of the year.

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲; every gift made between now and December 31 will be matched by the Board, dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000. That means your support goes twice as far in fueling the next 25 years of artist-led experimentation.

Whether you give once or set up a monthly donation, every contribution helps sustain the ecosystem of boundary-defying artists and technologists who made Eyebeam into a center for artist-driven inquiry that is is known for today. Your support helps move through this pivotal period of organizational renewal and transformation, as we search for our next Executive Director and prepare to launch our residency open call in early 2026. We invite you to be part of what comes next, to help us sustain the artists and programs that will define the next 25 years.

💗Give today at link in bio or tr.ee/k2n5bH

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