A video installation by contemporary artist Marco Brambilla, Marco Brambilla: After Utopia explores how we grapple with ideas about the future. Brambilla uses artificial intelligence (AI) and computer graphics (CG) to construct virtual landscapes inspired by world’s fairs, combining and animating images of iconic structures from 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century expositions.

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Video Craft explores the formal and technical properties that video, film, and early moving image technologies share with more traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass. It brings together artists at different stages of their careers, from early pioneers of video production to emerging digital natives, and illustrates an unlikely partnership between the heavily embodied practices of craft and the ephemeral nature of the screen.

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New Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and social changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures.

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Farmingdale State College Memorial Gallery presents Lush Pixels, a focused survey of artist Jonathan Monoghan, featuring prints, sculpture, and video produced over the past decade. The exhibition traces Monaghan’s interplay of art history and technology to explore desire, anxieties, and power in the digital age. Curated by Beth Giacummo.

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