TechnoMirage
Join us for Reclaim, Reimagine, Rewire, a 3-part journey that pierces through the illusion of creative progress projected by AI.
TechnoMirage is a half-day creative gathering exploring AI and speculative futures as tools for reclaiming, reimagining and making together. Across an afternoon of panel, workshop, installation and performance, we’ll ask: What stories does AI erase—and which ones can we reclaim? How can we turn the gap between promised tomorrows and lived realities into fertile ground for new visions?
The afternoon unfolds in three acts:
• RECLAIM: An artist panel featuring Carrie Wang, Luca Lee, and Munus Shih, who challenge extractive AI narratives and reclaim the technology as a tool for resistance, care, and agency;
• REIMAGINE: A hands-on speculative workshop led by Liminal where participants co-create artifacts that reflect their visions of preferable AI futures; and
• REWIRE: A live sonic performance by Mason Youngblood that uses AI to reimagine extinct voices and conjure speculative, meditative soundscapes, alongside Octologue by Interactive Items, an installation of eight AI-augmented sculptures, each a living philosophical voice that debates, questions, and responds to visitors in real time.
Together, these sessions open a rare space to not just talk about AI’s futures, but to hear them, shape them, and 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 and sound artist at Stony Brook University, where he studies culture, creativity, and communication in human and non-human animals. His recent work combines computational methods like machine learning and agent-based modeling to explore the complexity and structure of bird and 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 and inspire action for wildlife conservation.
Interactive Items
Interactive Items is a studio exploring art that emerges here and now, in a live dialogue with the viewer.
The studio's primary medium is real-time neural networks, dissolving the boundary between concept and 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 and Alena Mirgorodskaya, with significant support from Alexey Roslevich.
Panelists
Carrie Sijia Wang
Carrie Sijia Wang is a socially-engaged artist and educator whose work investigates the relationships between human and machine, technology and power, language and alienation. Working with software, video, participatory experience, and 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, and a 2020 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient. She has presented work with venues including New Museum, Onassis Foundation, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and 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 and its social implications.
Luca Lee
Luca Lee works as a transmedia artist and researcher. Recent works explore queer identity and speculative fiction in—and beyond—the human-centered framework as world-making practices through extended reality, 3D arts, and artificial intelligence. Born and raised in Chile and based in the US since 2015, he has presented his work internationally and 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), and Mayday Space (US), among other grounded and virtual spaces. He has received residencies and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Foreign Objekt, Culture Push, New Art City, and Silver Arts Projects.
Munus Shih
Munus Shih is a Taiwanese Minnan-Hakka creative technologist and educator building tools and spaces for decolonial, queer, and collective use of technology. They are a co-founder of Free99, a creative coding practice, and Co-Assembly/SpOnAcT!, a Taiwan-based cooperative exploring data storytelling through research and organizing. In 2023, Munus co-organized Processing Community Day Taiwan, curating a landmark event centering queer, femme, and grassroots voices in creative tech.
Their work, including p5.zine, Syllabus (Subject to Change), and Duty Free, has been exhibited and supported by NEW INC x New Museum DEMO Festival, the Taiwanese Hakka Affairs Council, and the Open Source Art Contributors Conference. They have presented talks and workshops at institutions such as NYU ITP, Cooper Union, SVA, Type@Cooper, Typographics, The Dalton School, Type Electives, and Google Developer Group DevFest. A Processing Foundation Fellow, Munus holds an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design and teaches at Pratt Institute as an Assistant Professor of Critical Technology.
Facilitators
Julienne DeVita
Julienne is a designer turned futures practitioner encouraging people to think, feel, and act differently for the long-term. As the founder of Liminal, a design futures agency, she blends strategic foresight, systems thinking, and 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, and strategic foresight. She conducts research with the university at the intersection of creativity, AI, and the future of labor. She is co-founder of the embodied futures collective, and chapter lead of Futures Friends NYC.
Amy Xiaofan Jiang
Amy Xiaofan Jiang is a designer, artist and curator working at the intersection of technology, speculative futures, and collective world-building. Her work often creates participatory infrastructures for artistic communities navigating hybrid forms and precarious conditions.
In 2022, she founded Underground Art and Design (UAAD), an online platform uplifting experimental practices across art, design, and emerging technologies and has organized virtual and in-person events, including exhibitions, panels, performances, and workshops. These projects center interdisciplinary dialogue and have engaged international audiences through collaborations with emerging artists and activists.