Introducing
Six New York City–based emerging artists join Eyebeam to imagine plural technological futures through a 12-week residency at NYU Tandon.
What would it take to build technology that holds our multitudes rather than flattening them? That's the question at the heart of Speculating on Plurality , Eyebeam's 2026 artist residency. This year's cohort—six New York City–based emerging artists working across disciplines from experimental theater to spatial audio to AI agents—begins their 12-week residency this month .
At Eyebeam, we have been concerned with the ever-growing integration of algorithmic systems into our daily lives. Noticing that although we are more digitally connected than ever, we experience a deepening alienation. Our interconnected realities have become more opaque, as algorithms become a determining factor in how we experience the world and steer us further into conformity. This contradiction of existential separation and engineered compliance beckons us to abandon our multiplicities and each other.
Earlier this year, we issued a call to emerging artists whose practice not only interrogates this conundrum but also addresses how we might move towards a pluralistic (pluriversal) commons—a space that holds our multitudes and their potentials for shared futures. Following an extraordinary response from our community, we selected six New York City-based artists who, in the first decade of their careers, have already demonstrated their ability to consider and respond to these concerns with curiosity, play, and expansiveness.
Each artist receives a $4,000 stipend to support the development of their project, along with access to Eyebeam's network of peers, mentors, and field experts. Residents will work out of NYU Tandon @ The Yard, a partner facility for integrative research in AR/VR/XR, virtual production, and experiential computing. There, they will have access to top-of-the-line production equipment and hands-on support from the talented practitioners enrolled in NYU Tandon's Integrated Design and Media (IDM) Master of Science program.
Over the next 12 weeks, Eyebeam will help the artists develop new projects, take part in cohort-based learning, and process the questions that Eyebeam first posed to our community in our Urgent Inquiries programming last fall:
What do the disparate and parallel realities created by tech’s integration into our lives urgently invite artists to consider? In an era of technofeudalism, is it possible to escape technology’s deployment in surveillance and its impulse towards creating hegemonic sameness? What is required to move us towards a pluralistic commons–a space that holds our multitudes and their potentials towards shared futures?
“We're living in a moment where technology is flattening difference at an extraordinary scale. The six artists we selected bring deep curiosity and real range to how they address these issues—from land-based practices to algorithmic composition to experimental theater. Each of them is modeling what it looks like to insist on plurality in how we design, build, and live with technology.” —Julia Kaganskiy, Executive Director
Selected Artists
Artist bios
Aurora Mititelu −
Aurora Mititelu is an artist based in New York working with computer images, AI, and physical installations to examine how computational media constructs contemporary reality. Growing up in post-socialist Romania during the influx of Western digital culture, her practice emerges from a critical interest in how media technologies shape perception, identity, and autonomy. She is currently a member of NEW INC Art & Code Y12 and the coordinator of the AI & Art Summer Institute at UCLA Social Software, a research lab focused on critical approaches to software and society.
Avery Alex Beige +
Chloe Alexandra Thompson +
dre r. jácome +
Kira Xonorika +
Umber Majeed +
Jury
A diverse jury representing the fields of art and technology selected artists who demonstrate a purposeful relationship to technology, social urgency, and impact. Bahareh Khoshooee, Eyebeam alum artist; Paul John, artist, community organizer, and Head of Community at NEW INC; Stephanie Dinkins, Eyebeam alum artist; Mark Ramos, new media artist and educator; Julia Kaganskiy, Executive Director, Eyebeam.
Jury bios
Bahareh Khoshooee −
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.
Khoshooee is the recipient of Eyebeam’s Democracy Machine Fellowship and a Skowhegan alumna. She has presented her solo installations at the Dorothy Center for The Arts, Baxter St CCNY, The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts,The Orlando Museum of Art,and NADA MIAMI 2018 among others. Khoshooee has been included in various group exhibitions including the Honor Fraser Gallery, Latinx Project, Southern Exposure, Museum of Photography Stockholm, and the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Artnet News, The Metro, and The Creators Project.
Mark Ramos +
Paul John +
Stephanie Dinkins +
Julia Kaganskiy +
Acknowledgement
Eyebeam relies on donations of various sizes to support innovative ideas in the arts and cultural ecosystem. The organization values contributions from artists, technologists, staff, board members, and the communities it serves, which are essential to our mission.
Eyebeam also thanks its institutional partners and funders, including NYU Tandon School of Engineering, The Atlantic Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Jerome Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts, for their continued support.