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1 week agoRemembering Asher Remy-Toledo, Media Art Luminary
Asher Remy-Toledo was a significant cultural producer in New York, fostering community and experimentation in media art until his passing at age 62.
Titled 'Collective Imagination in the Era of Optimization,' this year's edition asked: How can artists, communities and technologies rewire shared futures when the dominant narratives emphasize acceleration and optimization? And what forms of togetherness and resistance surface through media within the context of artistic practices today? The core program‑keynote lectures by Ruth Catlow, Harold Hejazi and Dzina Zhuk (of the artist collective eeefff)‑highlighted emerging forms of rebellious, joyful, multispecies collectivity and solidarity in a time of rising fascism and technocracy.