Urgent Inquiries with Bahareh Khoshooee and Xin Xin (Nov 17)

Urgent Inquiries with Bahareh Khoshooee and Xin Xin, Monday, November 17, 6 to 8:30 PM Eastern, Secret Riso Club, 122 Central Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221

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.

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Artist bios

Bahareh Khoshooee is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, feminist activist, and the co-founder of two collectives –Blockbusters (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.

Xin Xin (林心瑜) is a Taiwanese-American cultural producer exploring community-driven technology in creative and educational spaces. As creator of TogetherNet and co-editor of the Critical Coding Cookbook, 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 Sundance Art of Practice Fellow, Xin’s work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Human Resources, Z/KU, and Kunstverein Wolfsburg. They have been a resident artist at MASS MoCA, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. Xin works with the Processing Foundation to support open-source software for artists and teaches as Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design at the New School, where they work with emerging practitioners to develop critical and socially-engaged approaches to technology and design.

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