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"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."
—Bertolt Brecht
What to expect for 2025
Here is our general programming for 2025. We are open to new collaborations and partnerships. All programs are subject to change.
Jan
Publication: "Worlds Unfolding" Vol.1
Mar-May
AI Creativity Series: Artists Talk and Virtual Exhibition
Jun
New Media Art Jam
Jul-Sep
Online Virtual Curator Residency
Oct-Nov
Exhibition: Terra Incognita
Dec
Publication: "Worlds Unfolding" Vol.2
UAAD Highlights
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Publication
Worlds Unfolding:
Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making
Drawing on UAAD’s experience in virtual exhibitions and immersive environments, we mapped out the critical concepts in virtual world-making and transformed each into a thought-provoking prompt in our latest zine.
Virtual Exhibition, In-Person Art Festival
Jukebox of Dissonance:
The UAAD Festival
As part of our 2024 Art Festival and two-year anniversary celebration, we invited artists, avant-garde practitioners, and visionaries to join our "Jukebox of Dissonance." Here, subversive art and pioneering ideas flow like electric currents, with minds clashing and merging in creative chaos to birth the power of innovation. In this carefully curated jukebox, including a virtual exhibition, in-person artist talks and performances, we mix genres, shatter norms, and awaken slumbering senses through this event.
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Interactive publication
Matrix of the Not-Yet
Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "rhizome," "Matrix of the Not-Yet" is an interactive publication featuring 19 groups of Artists that resists traditional hierarchical models, opting for a decentralized, non-linear web of visions for the future.
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Virtual Exhibition, publication
Alt-Alterity
“Alt-Alterity” is a virtual exhibition as well as a manifesto for the future of coexistence, a way of being in which the notion of “alterity” need not exist, prompting a departure from an anthropocentric perspective to one that values a comprehensive appreciation of planetary diversity and interconnectedness.