Eyebeam, 185 Wythe Avenue, New York, NY (2025)

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

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:

💡𝒲𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝑔𝒾𝓉𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇, 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈? 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓈𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓅𝒶𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓋𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓊𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝓊𝓇𝑔𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓁𝓎?
🔮𝒜𝓃𝒹, 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓊𝓈 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝒶 (𝓅𝓁𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒶𝓁) / 𝓅𝓁𝓊𝓇𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒸 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈—𝒶 𝓈𝓅𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓂𝓊𝓁𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓊𝒹𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈?
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For our end of 2025 campaign, Eyebeam invites you into The Next 25 with “Speculating on Plurality,” 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 “Speculating on Plurality,” 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 🖇️link🖇️ in bio.

11/16/2025

🔊Join 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 Xin’s bio:
Xin Xin (林心瑜) 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 experimentation—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, Xin’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.
🔗RSVP link in bio🔗
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🖼️ Portrait of Eyebeam alum Xin Xin, photo courtesy of the artist.

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11/16/2025

🔊Join 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 Khoshooee’s bio, :
Bahareh Khoshooee is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, feminist activist, and the co-founder of two collectives – , an international group of New Media artists, and █████, 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.

🔗RSVP link in bio🔗
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🖼️Portrait of Eyebeam alum Bahareh Khoshooee, photo courtesy of the artist.

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11/16/2025

🔊Join 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 Kaganskiy’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, , .

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 “Interspecies Future: A Primer” (Distanz, 2024), . As an independent curator, she has worked with 180 Strand, @1800.studios (London, UK), Matadero Madrid, (Madrid, ES), Espacio Fondación Telefónica, (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.

🔗RSVP link in bio🔗
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🖼️Portrait of Julia Kaganskiy. Image credit: Nathalie Salazar.

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11/14/2025

🔊Today, 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 Eyebeam’s mission, values, and ways of working.
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🧭We 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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🤝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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👉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.

11/13/2025

🔊Join 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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RSVP’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:📘“Shaper of God,” ’s debut monograph, (ed.), Pioneer Works Press ().
Slide 6: 📑“Art, Engagement, Economy: The Working Practice of Caroline Woolard,” (), Onomatopee (), designed by .
Slide 7:📘“Rights of Way: The Body as Witness in Public Space,” Amy Gowen (ed.), Onomatopee. Some contributors include Finnegan Shannon (), Kevin Gotkin ().

🔗RSVP link in bio🔗
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🖼️Slide 2: Portrait of Tonight’s moderator and Eyebeam alum Julia Kaganskiy. Image credit: Nathalie Salazar; 🖼️Slide 3: Portrait of Eyebeam alum Xin Xin, photo courtesy of the artist.
🖼️Slide 4: Portrait of Eyebeam alum Bahareh Khoshooee, photo courtesy of the artist;
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11/05/2025

🔊An 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. 🔗RSVP links in bio🔗
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1️⃣On 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 (), Le’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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2️⃣On 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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Captions:
🖼️Slide 2: Portrait of Vivian Chui. Image credit: Dan Bradica.
🖼️Slide 4: Portrait of Julia Kaganskiy. Image credit: Nathalie Salazar.

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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1️⃣On 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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2️⃣On 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: Deonté 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.

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, Eyebeam’s flagship New York City residency.
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A warm and open invitation, ‘Speculating on Plurality’ 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:

✨We are more digitally connected than ever, but are we sharing realities? ✨What do these disparate and parallel realities invite us to consider urgently?
✨ In an era of technofeudalism, is it possible to escape technology’s deployment in state surveillance?
✨Do our most popular technologies have an impulse towards creating sameness?
✨And, what is required to move us towards a pluralistic commons—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. 🔗more info and RSVP link is in bio🔗
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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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🔗discord.gg/eyebeamnyc🔗
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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

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 Hook’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 that’s hit the Red Hook artist community. We’re highlighting fundraisers that we’ve come across which directly support artists whose livelihoods were impacted by the fire.

You can access a list of GoFundMe’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 Alliance’s homepage.

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