FUTURE-PROOF

Jamica El is an artist, researcher, and founder of muvaboard, an arts-based studio specializing in turning editorializing data into transformative, immersive experiences. Her work The Waiting Room Experience, 2034, “an experiential artifact from the future”, features in Blessed Foundation’s exhibition ‘Fields of Vision’. In this episode of FUTURE-PROOF, Jamica is in conversation with Günseli Yalci...

Madi Boyd is an artist whose work uses light, space, and time as sculptural matter. She has worked on several projects with Polly Dalton, a cognitive scientist and Professor in Psychology at Royal Holloway, whose research focuses on human attention, awareness and experience in multisensory contexts. In this talk, Dalton and Boyd discuss their collaborative works, Digital Forest , 2018, and The Com...

DEEP-DIVE is a series of public talks, each delving deeper into a specific topic already highlighted by a project at Blessed Foundation, enabling the nuances of important questions to be explored. The first DEEP-DIVE episode coincides with the exhibition currently on display at Blessed Foundation - RAPTURE by Andrea Khôra. We explore key themes in Andrea’s work, focusing on psychedelics and AI. He...

On the occasion of the opening of exhibitions by Soumya Sankar Bose and Andrea Khôra at Delfina Foundation and Blessed Foundation respectively, this episode brings these two artists together to discuss intriguing overlaps in their work. Co-hosted by Sylwia Serafinowicz (Managing Director at Blessed Foundation) and Erin Li (Curator at Delfina Foundation), this conversation explores the artists’ use...

María-Elena Pombo  is a Venezuelan artist and researcher based in NYC. Her work is  open-ended and investigates real and speculative pasts and presents to visualise alternative  futures. In her talk, Pombo will discuss how she centres Earth matter in her practice, gathering historical and contemporary materials through participatory actions. These material re-imaginations explore the possibilities...

Compiler is a collective for digital art, curation, and critical technical practice, implemented in institutional and alternative spaces. Their artistic and curatorial practice investigates socio-political challenges in digital culture, where the possibilities of digital art, curation, learning, and research are explored as part of a process of discovery through technological experiences. Creating...

A Vibe Called Tech   is a creative agency established in 2018 by  Charlene Prempeh  to encourage the application of a culturally diverse lens in design, technology, arts, and culture by spearheading partnerships, events, research, and workshops across London.   For the talk at Blessed Foundation,  Charlene Prempeh  will be joined by AVCT’s Creative Director  Lewis Dalton Gilbert , to focus on the...

New Art City  is an artist-run virtual space founded in 2020 and led by  Don Hanson  and  Sammie Veeler . Their browser-based tool for building 3D multiplayer websites supports a vibrant global community of artists, educators, and institutions. As an artist-run company, New Art City is redistributive by design, transferring knowledge, space, money and visibility from those who have it to those who...

Maja Smrekar  is an award-winning artist and researcher. In her talk for Blessed Foundation, Smrekar, will focus on interspecies communication as a platform that allowed her to explore the imprint of ideology, media and technologies on human and non-human entities. Smrekar will also address her fear of natural sciences that she has managed to overcome thanks to her intuitive connection with nature...

Hunaid Nagaria , first FUTURE-PROOF speaker, is an interaction designer, engineer and illustrator. Nagaria uses design as a medium to explore how technology interacts with human life and needs and is currently building adaptive technologies for gamers who experience muscle weakness as a result of muscular dystrophy. He has previously built interfaces for the future of human-food interaction, recre...