Foreign Objects is a research studio and cultural consultancy that works with artists and institutions engaged with emerging technocultures. Originally formed at MIT, it was founded by information engineer Agnes Cameron (UK), artist Gary Zhexi Zhang (UK, CN), interface designer Kalli Retzepi (GR), and architectural designer Sam Ghantous (LB, CA).
Read MoreHis work questions the systems, typologies, and languages that construct consciousness and guide behavior. Drawing from conceptual art, experimental music, and computer science, he creates poetry and audiovisual compositions that use constraint systems, chance operations, and remixing. The pieces take the form of interactive installations, generative artworks, and single channel videos.
Read MoreMuch of her work lies at the intersection of culture, sound, experimental pedagogy, experiential and speculative design. She's a recent graduate and research fellow of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Program (ITP) and is now an adjunct professor at both ITP and NYU's Photography and Imaging Department. She is also the founder and producer of New Media Arts, Culture and Technology festival, Afrotectopia.
Read MoreMark is deeply committed to the ethos of open source: the free sharing of information and data + creative uses of technology. His work is engaged with democratizing the worlds of art and technology through community and individual empowerment via the means of technological production. Mark works with the mediums of physical computing (using computers to sense and react to the physical world), software and web programming and digital sculpture to create interactive work that facilitate encounters with our own uncertain digital futures.
Read MoreAs a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, she created an archive of cyberfeminism that spans three decades. She has also been a fellow at the Internet Archive, co-organizing the Arts Track of the inaugural Decentralized Web Summit.
Read MoreSoda engages with questions of revisiting one’s own virtual legacy, how we present ourselves and perform for imagined others online and how the ever shifting nature of our digital space affects our memories and self concept.
Read MoreKnown for both solo works and performances with as many as two-hundred performers, she studies themes of power, retentive memory, trauma and connection, resisting corporeal jurisdiction and the ways sociopolitics infringe upon our bodies. Her work has been featured throughout New York City in institutions like MoMA, MoMA PS1, Pioneer Works, Mana Contemporary, National Sawdust and Knockdown Center as well as throughout Europe. Kinlaw has been written about in The New York Times, Art In America, Huffington Post, Art Forum and Pitchfork, amongst others.
Read MoreSarah's work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Sotheby's S2 gallery, MUTEK festival, Miami Art Week, and bitforms gallery. She teaches new media at NYU's Interactive Media Arts and Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch.
Read MoreReferring to contemporary technology, digital power structures, popular culture, and the alienation of an individual’s spirit and body, he draws on these themes to create works rooted in absurdist and carnivalesque techniques to propose critiques and celebrations of alienated culture.
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