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For more than 25 years, Eyebeam has nurtured artists whose work probes us to question what is human about technology; to...
11/18/2025

For more than 25 years, Eyebeam has nurtured artists whose work probes us to question what is human about technology; to reclaim virtual space from surveillance capitalism; to directly or poetically consider political acts of refusal towards institutional power; and, now with the newly announced season of programming, Speculating on Plurality, we sent a signal to our community of practitioners who collectively take up questions we had:

๐Ÿ’ก๐’ฒ๐’ฝ๐’พ๐“๐‘’ ๐“Œ๐‘’ ๐’ถ๐“‡๐‘’ ๐“‚๐‘œ๐“‡๐‘’ ๐’น๐’พ๐‘”๐’พ๐“‰๐’ถ๐“๐“๐“Ž ๐’ธ๐‘œ๐“ƒ๐“ƒ๐‘’๐’ธ๐“‰๐‘’๐’น ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“ƒ ๐‘’๐“‹๐‘’๐“‡, ๐’ถ๐“‡๐‘’ ๐“Œ๐‘’ ๐“ˆ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“‡๐’พ๐“ƒ๐‘” ๐“‡๐‘’๐’ถ๐“๐’พ๐“‰๐’พ๐‘’๐“ˆ? ๐’ฒ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“‰ ๐’น๐‘œ ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐‘’๐“ˆ๐‘’ ๐’น๐’พ๐“ˆ๐“…๐’ถ๐“‡๐’ถ๐“‰๐‘’ ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐’น ๐“…๐’ถ๐“‡๐’ถ๐“๐“๐‘’๐“ ๐“‡๐‘’๐’ถ๐“๐’พ๐“‰๐’พ๐‘’๐“ˆ ๐’พ๐“ƒ๐“‹๐’พ๐“‰๐‘’ ๐“Š๐“ˆ ๐“‰๐‘œ ๐’ธ๐‘œ๐“ƒ๐“ˆ๐’พ๐’น๐‘’๐“‡ ๐“Š๐“‡๐‘”๐‘’๐“ƒ๐“‰๐“๐“Ž?
๐Ÿ”ฎ๐’œ๐“ƒ๐’น, ๐“Œ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“‰ ๐’พ๐“ˆ ๐“‡๐‘’๐“†๐“Š๐’พ๐“‡๐‘’๐’น ๐“‰๐‘œ ๐“‚๐‘œ๐“‹๐‘’ ๐“Š๐“ˆ ๐“‰๐‘œ๐“Œ๐’ถ๐“‡๐’น๐“ˆ ๐’ถ (๐“…๐“๐“Š๐“‡๐’พ๐“‹๐‘’๐“‡๐“ˆ๐’ถ๐“) / ๐“…๐“๐“Š๐“‡๐’ถ๐“๐’พ๐“ˆ๐“‰๐’พ๐’ธ ๐’ธ๐‘œ๐“‚๐“‚๐‘œ๐“ƒ๐“ˆโ€”๐’ถ ๐“ˆ๐“…๐’ถ๐’ธ๐‘’ ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“‰ ๐“‚๐’พ๐‘”๐’ฝ๐“‰ ๐’ฝ๐‘œ๐“๐’น ๐‘œ๐“Š๐“‡ ๐“‚๐“Š๐“๐“‰๐’พ๐“‰๐“Š๐’น๐‘’๐“ˆ ๐“‰๐‘œ๐“Œ๐’ถ๐“‡๐’น๐“ˆ ๐“ˆ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“‡๐‘’๐’น ๐’ป๐“Š๐“‰๐“Š๐“‡๐‘’๐“ˆ?
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For our end of 2025 campaign, Eyebeam invites you into The Next 25 with โ€œSpeculating on Plurality,โ€ a newly launched season of gatherings, making, and togetherness featuring an NYC-based residency for emerging artists, public (and free) Eyebeam alum artist conversations, a juried speculative fiction writing contest, culminating with an event highlighting selected works.
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Your gift to Eyebeam sustains our role as connective hub for artists, technologists and writers who we plan to support through the season of โ€œSpeculating on Plurality,โ€ and offer them a space for play, risk-taking, and connection, and giving them direct financial support to develop instigations and interventions to address hyper-contemporary issues we care about most in the arts, tech, and society.
By giving today, you can help us reach our goal of $25,000 by Dec 31, 2025. Donate via the ๐Ÿ–‡๏ธlink๐Ÿ–‡๏ธ in bio.

๐Ÿ”ŠJoin us at () on Monday, November 17, 6 - 8:30 PM ET, to welcome Xin Xin, , back to the East Coast for an evening conve...
11/16/2025

๐Ÿ”ŠJoin us at () on Monday, November 17, 6 - 8:30 PM ET, to welcome Xin Xin, , back to the East Coast for an evening conversation with Bahareh Khoshoee, , and moderator Julia Kaganskiy, .

Eyebeam Artist Alum Xin Xinโ€™s bio:
Xin Xin (ๆž—ๅฟƒ็‘œ) is a Taiwanese-American cultural producer exploring community-driven technology in creative and educational spaces. As creator of and co-editor of the Critical Coding Cookbook https://criticalcode.recipes, Xin advocates for liberatory software culture through the reclamation and subversion of power dynamics embedded within digital systems.
Born in Taipei and raised in Massachusetts, Xin brings a multicultural perspective to questions of technology and sovereignty. Identifying as non-binary and anarcho-feminist, their genre-nonconforming practice weaves together art, education, organizing, and technological experimentationโ€”interrogating who controls technology, who benefits from it, and the power of collectives in building a more equitable digital future. An Eyebeam Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow and Art of Practice Fellow, Xinโ€™s work has been exhibited internationally at , , .berlin, and . They have been a resident artist at , , and . Xin works with to support open-source software for artists and teaches as Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design at , where they work with emerging practitioners to develop critical and socially-engaged approaches to technology and design.
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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Portrait of Eyebeam alum Xin Xin, photo courtesy of the artist.

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๐Ÿ”ŠJoin us at () on Monday, November 17, 6 - 8:30 PM ET, for Urgent Inquiries with Bahareh Khoshoee, who will be in conver...
11/16/2025

๐Ÿ”ŠJoin us at () on Monday, November 17, 6 - 8:30 PM ET, for Urgent Inquiries with Bahareh Khoshoee, who will be in conversation with fellow Eyebeam alums Xin Xin, , and moderator Julia Kaganskiy, .

Eyebeam Artist Alum Bahareh Khoshooeeโ€™s bio, :
Bahareh Khoshooee is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, feminist activist, and the co-founder of two collectives โ€“ , an international group of New Media artists, and โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ, a network of feminist artists, activists, and technologists.

Born in Tehran, Iran, Khoshooee uses time-based strategies in presenting work that fuses 3D environments, video projection mapping, sculpture, performance, and sound. Her practice explores the complex dualities of technology: its oppressive role in surveilling, documenting, and criminalizing BIPOC bodies, and its radical potential for futurity and alternative solidarities. Her work unearths how technology mediates the intimate and collective experiences of grief, violence, and memory, reclaiming these spaces as arenas for liberation, and reimagined futures.

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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธPortrait of Eyebeam alum Bahareh Khoshooee, photo courtesy of the artist.

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๐Ÿ”ŠJoin us at () tomorrow, Monday, November 17, 6 - 8:30 PM ET, for the second Urgent Inquiries with moderator Julia Kagan...
11/16/2025

๐Ÿ”ŠJoin us at () tomorrow, Monday, November 17, 6 - 8:30 PM ET, for the second Urgent Inquiries with moderator Julia Kaganskiy, who will be in conversation with fellow Eyebeam alum artists, Bahareh Khoshoee, , and Xin Xin, .

Moderator Julia Kaganskiyโ€™s bio:
Julia Kaganskiy is a curator and cultural strategist working across art, science, and technology. She is passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration, developing new cultural models, and re-imagining cultural institutions as inclusive spaces for artistic experimentation. Since starting her career in 2008, she has been recognized as a leading voice in art and technology and helped launch several groundbreaking programs in the field, including The Creators Project, , and NEW INC, , .

โ€‹Her curatorial practice explores the potential of art as a key interlocutor of emerging science and technology. Until recently, she served as Curator-at-Large at in Berlin, where she oversaw the Interspecies Future research stream and co-edited the book โ€œInterspecies Future: A Primerโ€ (Distanz, 2024), . As an independent curator, she has worked with 180 Strand, @1800.studios (London, UK), Matadero Madrid, (Madrid, ES), Espacio Fondaciรณn Telefรณnica, (Madrid, ES), Borusan Contemporary, (Istanbul, TY), Science Gallery, (Dublin, IE), Barbican Centre (London, UK), Eyebeam (New York, US), Mana Contemporary, (Jersey City, US), Feral File, , and many others.

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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธPortrait of Julia Kaganskiy. Image credit: Nathalie Salazar.

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๐Ÿ”ŠToday, Friday, November 14, we launch the search for our next Executive Director (ED). Eyebeam Board and Staff have bee...
11/14/2025

๐Ÿ”ŠToday, Friday, November 14, we launch the search for our next Executive Director (ED). Eyebeam Board and Staff have been working closely to define the ED role, and we are thrilled to open this up to our community, who we trust to point us to a leader that will embody Eyebeamโ€™s mission, values, and ways of working.
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๐ŸงญWe send the signal out to cultural leaders within the art/tech field who have a demonstrated commitment to artists, equity, and experimentation. As an experienced leader, you may have had success in building fundraising campaigns and acquired a deftness with financial stewardship; developed authentic, reciprocal partnerships that center clear goals and accountability; and honed an aptitude for strategic thinking, risk management, and operational discipline.

As the future chief executive of the organization, you will lead Eyebeam through a period of renewal and transformation; as someone who combines visionary leadership with emotional intelligence, balances decisiveness with empathy, and inspire confidence across staff, artists, alumni, funders, and partners alike.
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๐ŸคAs we value curiosity, collaboration, and growth, we understand that leadership takes many forms. We welcome candidates whose strengths may be concentrated in highly specific areas, provided they bring the insight and openness to build collective capacity across the team.
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๐Ÿ‘‰To learn more about the responsibilities of the next ED, visit the link in our bio or apply via Submittable at (tr.ee/9YTSAc). We will accept and review applications on a rolling basis. Only applications completed via Submittable will be considered, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

๐Ÿ”ŠJoin us at  on Monday, November 17, 6 - 8:30 PM ET, for the second Urgent Inquiries event!We begin the evening with art...
11/13/2025

๐Ÿ”ŠJoin us at on Monday, November 17, 6 - 8:30 PM ET, for the second Urgent Inquiries event!

We begin the evening with artist presentations from Eyebeam alums Bahareh Khoshooee (), whose use of technology captures the slippier qualities of diasporic geographies, surveillance, and erasure, and Xin Xin () of Processing Foundation (), who creates alternative digital spaces centering on the principles of data transparency, community practice, and consent.

We follow with a discussion moderated by Julia Kaganskiy (), an Eyebeam alum and leading voice in art and technology as a curator and cultural strategist. We culminate the event with an audience Q&A!
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RSVPโ€™d attendees are welcome to peruse the SRC store, which houses independently published art books & zines, and a plethora of gorgeous riso prints. We were also pleasantly surprised to find some works either published, edited, or contributed by Eyebeam Alums and friends of the Org:
Slide 5:๐Ÿ“˜โ€œShaper of God,โ€ โ€™s debut monograph, (ed.), Pioneer Works Press ().
Slide 6: ๐Ÿ“‘โ€œArt, Engagement, Economy: The Working Practice of Caroline Woolard,โ€ (), Onomatopee (), designed by .
Slide 7:๐Ÿ“˜โ€œRights of Way: The Body as Witness in Public Space,โ€ Amy Gowen (ed.), Onomatopee. Some contributors include Finnegan Shannon (), Kevin Gotkin ().

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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธSlide 2: Portrait of Tonightโ€™s moderator and Eyebeam alum Julia Kaganskiy. Image credit: Nathalie Salazar; ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธSlide 3: Portrait of Eyebeam alum Xin Xin, photo courtesy of the artist.
๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธSlide 4: Portrait of Eyebeam alum Bahareh Khoshooee, photo courtesy of the artist;
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๐Ÿ”ŠAn update for both upcoming events at Secret Riso Club () on Tuesday, November 11, and Monday, November 17. We invite y...
11/05/2025

๐Ÿ”ŠAn update for both upcoming events at Secret Riso Club () on Tuesday, November 11, and Monday, November 17. We invite you all to join us in exploring how we collectively think and act through hyper-contemporary issues we care about most in the arts, tech, and society. ๐Ÿ”—RSVP links in bio๐Ÿ”—
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1๏ธโƒฃOn Tuesday, Nov. 11 from 6 to 8:30 PM ET, in our first program, we are joined by moderator Vivian Chui (), curator and Director of Exhibitions at Pioneer Works (), a cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn that builds community through the arts and sciences. She has curated exhibitions by Jessie Homer French (forthcoming), American Artist (), Leโ€™Andra LeSeur (), Alex Harsley (), Sally Saul, and Maia Cruz Palileo, in addition to helping organize many others at the institution.

RSVP NOV 11: luma.com/2jrex85x
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2๏ธโƒฃOn Monday, Nov. 17 from 6 to 8:30 PM ET, the second iteration of Urgent Inquiries, we are joined by moderator Eyebeam alum Julia Kaganskiy (), curator, and cultural strategist working across art, science, and technology. She is passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration, developing new cultural models, and re-imagining cultural institutions as inclusive spaces for artistic experimentation. Since starting her career in 2008, she has been recognized as a leading voice in art and technology and helped launch several groundbreaking programs in the field, including The Creators Project (VICE/Intel) and NEW INC ().

RSVP NOV 17: luma.com/z0hj05mr
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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธSlide 2: Portrait of Vivian Chui. Image credit: Dan Bradica.
๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธSlide 4: Portrait of Julia Kaganskiy. Image credit: Nathalie Salazar.

This November, Eyebeam presents Urgent Inquiries, artist alum conversations hosted at Secret Riso Club (). Rooted in inq...
10/21/2025

This November, Eyebeam presents Urgent Inquiries, artist alum conversations hosted at Secret Riso Club (). Rooted in inquiry and work from our alumni community, the new season of programming will kick off with a space and platform to discuss and examine urgent topics. We invite you all to join us in exploring how, as makers, we collectively think and act through hyper-contemporary issues we care about most in the arts, tech, and society.
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1๏ธโƒฃOn Tuesday, Nov. 11 from 6 to 8:30 PM ET, in our first program, we welcome Eyebeam alumni, artists Ari Melenciano () of Afrotectopia, , whose work investigates our social and cultural relations using new media frameworks, and Tega Brain (), and Sam Lavigne () who employ digital sabotage to frame climate crises and its mitigation in legible ways. NOV 11: luma.com/2jrex85x
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2๏ธโƒฃOn Monday, Nov. 17 from 6 to 8:30 PM ET, the second iteration of Urgent Inquiries welcomes Eyebeam alum artists Bahareh Khoshooee (), whose use of technology captures the slippier qualities of diasporic geographies, surveillance, and erasure, and Xin Xin () of Processing Foundation (), whose work in creating alternative digital spaces of social engagement is based on the principles of data transparency, community practice, and consent. NOV 17: luma.com/z0hj05mr
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Captions:
Slide 2: Portrait of Eyebeam alum Ari Melenciano, photo courtesy of the artist;
Slide 3: Portrait of Eyebeam alum Tega Brain. Photo credit: Deontรฉ Lee (.nomad), BFA;
Slide 4: Portrait of ECFJ alum Sam Lavigne, photo courtesy of the artist. (https://lav.io/training/);
Slide 5: Portrait of Eyebeam alum Bahareh Khoshooee, photo courtesy of the artist;
Slide 6: Portrait of Eyebeam alum Xin Xin, photo courtesy of the artist.

We are very excited to share with you our new 2025/2026 season, a return for Eyebeam, and an offer to think, share, play...
10/21/2025

We are very excited to share with you our new 2025/2026 season, a return for Eyebeam, and an offer to think, share, play, and connect. The new season of gatherings, making, and togetherness includes in-person artist conversations; experimental writing and storytelling; and, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, Eyebeamโ€™s flagship New York City residency.
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A warm and open invitation, โ€˜Speculating on Pluralityโ€™ is a prompt to artists, technologists, and writers who imagine or instigate new frameworks, interventions, or inventions to address questions that concern us the most:

โœจWe are more digitally connected than ever, but are we sharing realities? โœจWhat do these disparate and parallel realities invite us to consider urgently?
โœจ In an era of technofeudalism, is it possible to escape technologyโ€™s deployment in state surveillance?
โœจDo our most popular technologies have an impulse towards creating sameness?
โœจAnd, what is required to move us towards a pluralistic commonsโ€”a space that might hold our multitudes and their potentials towards shared futures?
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In November, we kick off this season with a pair of Eyebeam alumni conversations, Urgent Inquiries hosted at Secret Riso Club, . We invite artists to share their thinking and work addressing urgent issues in technology, art, and society. ๐Ÿ”—more info and RSVP link is in bio๐Ÿ”—
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We also open the series of events, with a concurrent launch of a forum on Discord, inviting all practitioners and supporters in the Eyebeam community to share critical thoughts and responses to shared themes and questions throughout the season. We invite conversations and questions about frameworks, interventions, or inventions that move us to challenge the existing system of surveillance, techno-feudalism, and censorial repression prevalent in and out of our shared digital spaces.
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To read more about what is happening in the winter and spring of 2026, head to the link in bio, and sign up for our newsletter on eyebeam.org

On the night of Wednesday, September 17 to early morning Thursday, September 18, a five-fire alarm devastated the heart ...
09/24/2025

On the night of Wednesday, September 17 to early morning Thursday, September 18, a five-fire alarm devastated the heart of Red Hookโ€™s artist community, an iconic warehouse complex spreading over five buildings on Van Brunt Street. This hub of artistic creation and gathering houses studios, galleries, and shops, destroying more than 500 works of art.

This has been on our minds, as we learn the extent of the devastation thatโ€™s hit the Red Hook artist community. Weโ€™re highlighting fundraisers that weโ€™ve come across which directly support artists whose livelihoods were impacted by the fire.

You can access a list of GoFundMeโ€™s via redhookbiz.com, feel free to spread the word with your communities. The list of aiding and volunteer opportunities grows by the day. If you were affected and/or would like to offer support, please fill out the form on Red Hook Business Allianceโ€™s homepage.

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09/04/2025

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We are working as swiftly as possible to resolve the issue. We will notify you once we are back online.

Thanks for bearing with us! If you need to reach out to us, please send us a message via instagram!

โ€” Eyebeam team

๐Ÿ“ขWe are thrilled to let you know that Sheetal Prajapati,  has joined Eyebeam as our Interim Executive Director. She begi...
06/30/2025

๐Ÿ“ขWe are thrilled to let you know that Sheetal Prajapati, has joined Eyebeam as our Interim Executive Director. She begins Tuesday, July 1.
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๐ŸŒŸAn educator, artist, and advisor with more than 20 years of experience in the field, Sheetal comes to us as a friend and champion of Eyebeam. Over the past eight months, she has worked closely with the Board and Staff in a consulting capacity and provided leadership with a depth of continuity, clarity, and care.
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Sheetal is uniquely positioned to purposefully guide us through this exciting period of transformation, as she advised peer organizations including NEW INC. and Creative Capital and provided organizational transition through interim leadership. Additionally, we are tremendously excited to benefit from her expertise in artist initiatives, programming, and engagement, as we reorient our community engagement and public programming.
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As we gear up to shape what we collectively envision what leadership looks like at Eyebeam, Sheetal will continue overseeing the ongoing community-design initiative work that we recently began with FLOX, to re-engage with you, our community, more purposefully and as we respond to opportunities and systemic challenges facing the broader art and technology community in this moment, the height of technofascism.
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As we continue together in this new chapter, you have our assurance that, at Eyebeam, we will always support and nourish experimentation, innovation, and creativity. Please feel free to write to us at eyebeamnyc@pm.me, and join us on eyebeam.org for the full message or via the link in bio.

๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธCaption: Portrait of Sheetal Prajapati, Eyebeamโ€™s new Interim Executive Director.

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