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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Jun 6

Our performance schedule is up! Join us for opening weekend and our second weekend⭐️

CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · May 17

ALIAS2 is a real-time performance where a dancer’s movements shape sound and visuals, merging the body with live digital form to explore embodied audiovisual art.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · May 12

SEED remembers Earth—its soil, forests, and gravity. Launched in Zero-G on May 19, 2024, it always turns homeward. Inside its acorn shell: a tiny spacecraft carrying stories for spacefarers past and future.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · May 6

“EchoVision” is a mixed reality experience that invites you into an immersive bat world, where their AI-categorized social vocalizations are reinterpreted as evocative music. Echolocate like a bat by screaming and seeing the world bounce back.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · May 5

Zoe Cohen’s hand-drawn animations in ceramic sculptures explore the body and mind as fluid, imperfect, and ever-shifting. Ancient clay and digital screens merge to create living, distorted forms.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · May 4

“Cybernetic Oracle” is a tarot deck and book created with generative AI. Visitors draw cards to explore their past, present, and future, then consult AI-generated meanings based on cybernetic, feminist, and technopagan texts.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · May 3

“B10-PR1NT” is a collection of 3D-printed biodegradable forms made from local bio-waste. The artists create vessels, birdhouses, and plant pots inspired by natural forms. The project highlights regenerative design and circular processes in art and science.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · May 2

“A Road in India (2079)” is a speculative film blending ancient history, colonial steampunk, and futuristic AI through the journey of Meenakshi, a cultural cyborg. It reimagines India’s past and future in collaboration with the BFI’s India archives.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · May 1

"Age of Execution" is a collaborative audio-visual work by Sid and Geri and Brian Wenner, exploring surreal aesthetics. The piece reflects the blurred lines between dreams, and post-pandemic anxieties, with sound crafted through layered samples and modular improvisation.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 28

Beyond This Point’s multimedia performance “Analogy Fair” and “Hypochondriac” this June!
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 27

Ross Wightman’s Fiddle Henge is a robotic array of four violins mounted on a bass drum and played by a motorized acrylic disk, blending early 20th-century mechanical music with modern innovations for rich, sustained sonic exploration.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 24

Bomi Yook's "K-COSMOSIS" is an experimental animation that explores Korean metaphysics through a fluid blend of cosmologies, using generative particle systems and queer feminist thought to reveal a universe shaped by entanglement, sharedness, and blurred boundaries.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 22

David Van Eyssen’s “Encounter” is a life-sized virtual sculpture capturing the moment of a car crash, with two figures suspended mid-air amid spinning glass and mirrored spheres. Depending on the angle, they appear to embrace each other—or themselves—serene in the chaos.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 17

Axl Le’s “The Journey” is a three-part short film set on a distant planet, reflecting on humanity’s relationship with nature through a poetic tale of a forest’s awakening, sleep, and rebirth—urging viewers to protect and cherish the natural world.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 16

Jason Nuttle’s Stagnant is a diorama that captures the distorted sense of time during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a moving artificial sun to mimic time’s unpredictable flow in isolation and stress.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 15

Eric Heep’s Memory Planes uses a 48-channel speaker array to create sound holograms at points where light paths intersect, exploring memory as a series of decaying “sound events” and drawing on Sonnabend’s theory of forgetting as experiential decay.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 13

Julia Daser’s “Flooded House” recreates her apartment to simulate rising sea levels, turning climate data into an immersive, empathetic experience that personalizes the impact of climate change and calls visitors to action.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 12

“Unforgiving Love” is a kinetic installation where a branch dragged across sandpaper slowly erodes, poetically reflecting nature’s cycles and humanity’s destructive impact, while blurring the line between the natural and artificial.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 11

The Roaring of the Carabao follows a daughter’s first visit to the Philippines, where a volcanic eruption on her arrival night sparks a haunting journey through time, using hauntology to explore the Taal volcano as a spectre of Filipino Americanism and intergenerational memory.
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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 11

Illuminate by Chelsi Cocking featuring at CURRENTS 2025 Art & Technology Festival! Read out more here:

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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Apr 4

CURRENTS 2025 Art & Technology Festival @ El Museo Cultural from June 13th - 22nd! This ten-day festival will feature works exploring the evolving intersections of art, technology, and digital culture.
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Violet Moon Tower @violetmoontower.bsky.social · Mar 26

Very happy to announce Strange Fruit has been selected to show at CURRENTS New Media 2025 festival.

Beyond excited to show alongside such an amazing group. @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social

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CURRENTS New Media @currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · Jan 17

We've received a grant! Thank you to The National Endowment for the Arts for approving CURRENTS New Media for a grant in the amount of $45,000!! We are excited to invest this back into the production for our annual Art & Technology Festival and exhibitions through 2025❤️

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