THE NEXT 25 YEARS AT EYEBEAM

Today, we launch The Next 25, Eyebeam’s end-of-year fundraising campaign to bolster our new season of programs, Speculating on Plurality. The new series marks a return for Eyebeam to a physical presence in NYC, offering artists and our communities platforms to think and share critical ideas, and reintroduce focused time and resources for creation.

Since its founding, for 25 years, Eyebeam acted as an independent and experimental arts lab, growing into a publicly recognized organization generously supporting projects at the intersection of art and technology. Beginning with Speculating on Plurality, we ask our community to help us set the terms of our future and to invest in the voices, ideas, and radical imaginations that will shape the next 25 years.

SUPPORT ARTISTS’ SPECULATIVE AND PLAYFUL RISK-TAKING

This is more than an end-of-year call for support, we invite you all to participate in what comes next.

As we use this moment to reconnect with long-time collaborators and welcome new ones, we organize these efforts to strengthen the community and provoke dialogue about how Eyebeam can and should position itself over the next 25 years, especially as a connective center for art and technology.

And secondly, we ask you to help support our programmatic efforts for Speculating on Plurality, which includes a 2026 NYC-based residency for emerging artists, public (and free) artist conversations, a juried speculative fiction writing contest, culminating with an evening reading event.

Our goal is to raise $25,000 by December 31 to help sustain and eventually scale this new programming, laying the foundation for Eyebeam’s future.

Your support today further fuels artist-centered innovation, and ensures Eyebeam stays in touch with its dynamic roots as an evolving space for play, risk-taking, and connection, guided by an open-source ethos and justice-driven interventions.