Underground Art And Design

24/03/2026

‼️Apply by Mar 31 | Attention//Distraction:
Publication • NYC Showcase + Panel

Attention vs Distraction is a false binary. In this open call, we invite artists, writers, and technologists to explore the politics of attention.

Areas of interest:
• Network culture & media environments
• Critiques of contemporary spectatorship
• Interventions that disrupt and redirect attention
• New modes of seeing and noticing

Artists, writers, designers, technologists, and researchers from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.

🔗 Learn more + apply via the link in our bio (uaad.art/attention)
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 31, 2026 (23:59 EDT)
Selection results and the venue will be announced in early April. Stay tuned!

11/03/2026

‼️OPEN CALL | Attention//Distraction: Apply by Mar 31!
Publication • NYC Showcase + Panel

As geopolitical volatility and AI-mediated information collide, our attention is harvested through engineered distraction. We are networked to multiple elsewheres, our gaze steered by invisible infrastructures.

If attention can be captured, fragmented, or resisted, then distraction emerges as both a condition and a strategy.

We invite artists, writers, and technologists to explore the politics of attention.

Areas of interest:
• Network culture & media environments
• Critiques of contemporary spectatorship
• Interventions that disrupt and redirect attention
• New modes of seeing and noticing

🔗 Learn more + apply via the link in our bio (uaad.art/attention)
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 31, 2026 (23:59 EDT)
Selection results and the venue will be announced in early April. Stay tuned!

15/01/2026

Very few tickets left! An immersive night of live audio visual performance in Williamsburg blending tribal rhythms with modular synths.

Jan 15 9PM · Brooklyn Art Haus 
RSVP Link in bio!

Featuring 2 groundbreaking underground forces in China:  
Community Partner: .art
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14/01/2026

The TechnoMirage publication is out on Metalabel.com!

An archive of the TechnoMirage event series, bringing together exhibitions, talks and artist interviews that examine the illusion of progress projected by AI and exploring how creative practitioners can reclaim agency through exhibitions, discourses, and practices that shape more equitable relationships with emerging technologies.

Co-produced by .art x Liminal
Edited by Amy Xiaofan Jiang

Free to access, with Supporter and Sustainer tiers for those who wish to help our work grow and continue🌱💚

Get your copy today! Link in bio!

31/12/2025

2025: A Constellation of Practices✨ Swipe right👉

🎆Key Words for this Year:
# Relational World-Building
# Situated Techno-Futures
# Collaborative Infrastructure

✨Grateful for the partners, collaborators, and friends who shaped this year alongside us through exhibitions, publications, community events, and conversations:
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✴️What’s next
TechnoMirage: An Archive of Exhibitions, Discourses, and Practices in the Age of Artificial Intelligence launches in January 2026.

Looking toward 2026 with a focus on deepening collaborative infrastructure, sustaining long-term relationships, and continuing to build shared spaces for community engagement❤️‍🔥

24/11/2025

Join us this Dec 12 as 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 transforms a Soho loft into a playable ecosystem of artist-made games, XR journey, installations, live interfaces, and moving-image pieces.

Running from 4 to 11 PM, the event builds on the structural logic found in Neuromancer, the 1984 novel by William Gibson, where meaning is shaped by how people move through networks. Neuromantics approaches this idea through gaming. Works shift, open, or change state based on human action and interaction.

Exhibiting Artists:
Kinky Kashayam, Aurora Mititelu, Erin Robinson + Jamie Hunter, Jackie Liu, Jonah King, Tee Topor, Ian Cox, Hiba Ali, Pearlyn Lii, Chia Amisola, Ian Cox, Tommy Martinez, Peter Nichols, the Cybernetics Image Library, and Lois He + Vio Zhu + John Luo + Kaiyang Zhao.

Live Performance (8-10pm) by Raven Tao .tao + Yiou Wang , Sculptor (Ana Roman) and MAYSUN .music

Co-Curated by .art

Work is available via alongside access coins for select games, inviting the audience to navigate a new system of play, access, and interaction.

Supported by FLORA , a creative workflow system integrating text, image, and video models through a node-based intelligent canvas built for designers, filmmakers, agency teams, and art students.

Learn more & get your 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨 via the rsvp link in bio!

24/11/2025

Join us this Dec 12 as 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 transforms a Soho loft into a playable ecosystem of artist-made games, XR journey, installations, live interfaces, and moving-image pieces.

Running from 4 to 11 PM, the event builds on the structural logic found in Neuromancer, the 1984 novel by William Gibson, where meaning is shaped by how people move through networks. Neuromantics approaches this idea through gaming. Works shift, open, or change state based on human action and interaction.

Exhibiting Artists:
Kinky Kashayam, Aurora Mititelu, Erin Robinson + James Hunter, Jackie Liu, Jonah King, Tee Topor, Ian Cox, Hiba Ali, Pearlyn Lii, Chia Amisola, Ian Cox, Tommy Martinez, Peter Nichols, the Cybernetics Image Library, and Lois He + Vio Zhu + John Luo + Kaiyang Zhao.

Live Performance (8-10pm) by Raven Tao .tao + Yiou Wang , Sculptor (Ana Roman) and MAYSUN .music

Co-Curated by .art

Work is available via alongside access coins for select games, inviting the audience to navigate a new system of play, access, and interaction.

Supported by FLORA , a creative workflow system integrating text, image, and video models through a node-based intelligent canvas built for designers, filmmakers, agency teams, and art students.

Learn more & get your 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨 via the rsvp link in bio!

21/10/2025

🫟What kind of futures do Creative AIs build?
As AI continues to blur the lines between human and machine creativity, TechnoMirage: Creative AI Futures - a global virtual panel - brings together artists, designers, and technologists to reflect on how AI is transforming the nature and future of creative labor.

Hosted by Julienne DeVita’s Design With AI course at Parsons School of Design Strategies in collaboration with Underground Art and Design .art , the event invites audiences to imagine alternative futures of art and design shaped not only by technological innovation but also by collective values of authorship, care, and accessibility.

Featuring Dominika Čupková , Jazsalyn , Joaquina Salgado .s , and Ziv Epstein , this conversation highlights voices from across continents who are rethinking how creative agency can exist within, against, and alongside algorithmic systems. Through their practices, the panelists challenge dominant narratives of efficiency and automation, revealing how AI might become a space for re-enchantment, resistance, and world-building.

Open to students, educators, and practitioners...It is a moment to pause, exchange, and reimagine what it means to create in an AI-saturated world.

Date: 4th November, 2025
Time: 11 am - 12:30 pm EST
Format: Online (Zoom)
Registration is free and open to the public

RSVP LINK IN BIO!

05/10/2025

23/09/2025

Last Sunday, Sep 21, we sat in soft sunlight, opening ourselves to different ways of imagining how we might live with AI: what collaborations feel possible, what frictions shape us, and what futures these relationships could hold through talks by and and a specualtive futuring workshop led by Liminal (Julienne DeVita), co-designed with .

’s “unproductive” chatbot pulled us into conversation by refusing being useful, by making space for questions and sideways thought. Octologue by .items juxtaposed voices and arguments until they became something more than debate, something closer to a living chorus.

Lastly, we ended in a much needed exhale: a soundscape stitched together by from the archival calls of extinct Hawaiian birds, meeting the quiet triggers of AI agents. It was lullaby and noise, grief and comfort, all at once.

Under the care of , light, thought, and sound held us—briefly otherworldly, and deeply together.

📷: .camera