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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

Exhibitions, Publications and Events

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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. 

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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.

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