Tiri Kananuruk
In a time of fear and deportations, Cumulus monitors the Mexico-US border, tracking clouds via NOAA satellites. Inspired by CubeSats, it contrasts shifting skies with rigid politics, revealing borders as invisible from above but deeply shaping lives below.

Amy Karle
A billion-year time capsule launched to the Moon and deep space, The Golden Archive preserves Earth’s DNA, knowledge, and culture, integrating data, AI and biological data to communicate with future intelligences and reflect on humanity’s identity across space and time.

Navid Navab
Organism is an investigative platform, revolving around a robotically-prepared historic pipe organ, that attunes us to the form-giving tendencies of kinetic chaos and the turbulent dynamics of sonic formation. It has two modes: one as an installation and another as a concert.

Tengchao Zhou
Southern Wind Algorist is an avant-garde art installation that sings softly amidst the silence of pre-modern gay Chinese literature in the contemporary cultural landscape, remembering the historical existence of an underrepresented group of people.

Niceaunties
Site specific installation blending large scale fabric sculpture, digital projection and AI film, in response to the theme UN/settled: Migration+Movement, exploring cultural displacement and adaptation. AI film integrates AI characters-aunties into actual scenes at the site.

SPEKTRA
Scattered Scapes is an interactive installation that visualizes fragmented urban memories through generative particles and ambient sound. Viewers’ presence reshapes the flow, revealing the tension between collective experience and individual perception.