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Steel beams are now rising at the corner of Craig St. and Forbes Ave., where ICA Pittsburgh’s future galleries will soon take shape inside Carnegie Mellon University’s Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences. As the framework of our physical space emerges, we’ve also been working to define the theoretical and operational foundation for this new institution. Last June, we launched “Remaking the Museum,” a creative research program exploring how contemporary art institutions can evolve to meet the challenges of this moment. As part of the program, we convened a series of roundtables (2025–26) with artists, curators, writers, and cultural thinkers from Pittsburgh and beyond. These conversations are helping shape the vision for the ICA as we prepare to open our new home. Follow along over the coming weeks as we share ideas emerging from this process and the thinking guiding ICA Pittsburgh’s future!

"The Generative Museum 🌀 What might museums become in the age of artificial intelligence?⁠ Launching first as an interactive virtual environment, The Generative Museum offers a glimpse into a future institution opening at Carnegie Mellon University in 2027. Step inside a speculative world where art, technology, and ecology converge, and imagine how we might live, dream, and build together in an algorithmic age. A collaboration between ICA Pittsburgh and KADIST.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Visit The Generative Museum or Unseen Forces 1.0 (desktop only)⁠ 🎨 Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst, Joe Namy, Ahmet Ögüt⁠ 🧭 Curated by Elizabeth Chodos (ICA Pittsburgh) and Joseph del Pesco (@delpesco ) (KADIST)⁠ ⁠ 📷️ Installation views: I’M HERE 17.12.2022 5:44, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst; Moon-Faced (,(ماه طلعت, Morehshin Allahyari; masks, facades, and faces, Joe Namy; Monuments of the Disclosed, Ahmet Öğüt; Interior lobby; Exterior of The Generative Museum.⁠ ⁠ #TheGenerativeMuseum #ICAPittsburgh #KADIST #UnseenForces #VirtualMuseum

✨Welcome to “The Generative Museum” ✨ Now live on our website, the virtual experience brings our future galleries to life while our home in @carnegiemellon ‘s Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences is under construction. Created with @kadistkadist and @epoch.gallery , The Generative Museum places the forthcoming ICA in an interactive digital world — one where you can step into the role of curator. Using your prompts, the AI platform will assemble artworks into exhibitions from @kadistkadist ’s international collection and from collections across Pittsburgh in real time. Also on view are digital artworks by Morehshin Allahyari ( @morehshin ), Holly Herndon ( @holly_herndon ) & Mat Dryhurst ( @matdryhurst ), Joe Namy ( joe_namy ), and Ahmet Öğüt ( @ahmet__ogut ) that inspire reflection on our relationship to technology. 🌀 Step inside at the link on our website!

👀 Coming next week: “The Generative Museum” A virtual experience that brings our future galleries to life while our home in @carnegiemellon ‘s Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences is under construction. Created with @kadistkadist + @epoch.gallery , this project invites you to explore artworks and curate your own exhibitions inside a virtual rendering of our future space. @morehshin @holly_herndon & Mathew Dryhurst joe_namy @ahmet__ogut Check our website for updates on the launch 🔗

✨ Thank you to everyone who came to the Symposium “How Can We Remake the Museum? An Opening Conversation.” The thoughtful contributions made by dedicated panelists, artists, arts workers, faculty, staff, students, administrators, patrons, and the Pittsburgh community are what made “How Can We Remake the Museum?” a success. This opening conversation is just the beginning, check back in with us for more events and programming updates coming soon!

… ✨Tomorrow ✨ Join us for “How Can We Remake the Museum? An Opening Conversation “—a symposium that brings together though leaders from across the country to explore how museums can adapt to shifting cultural, political, and social landscapes. We’re excited to share the models and practices we believe hold the greatest promise for the years ahead as we look forward to our new home. Learn more about the event at the link in bio 🔗

Be part of the conversation as @icapittsburgh begins its next chapter with a public symposium, where Founder & Director Elizabeth Chodos will share research and invite real-time feedback about the museum’s future. “How Can We Remake the Museum? An Opening Conversation” 🗓 Sept 30, 5:30 PM 📍 Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre 🎟 Free & open to all 🎤 Keynote + panel with Elizabeth Chodos, Lisa Dorin, James McAnally, Harrison Kinnane Smith & Alisha Wormsley Head to art.cmu.edu for more from our sneak peek Q&A with Chodos ahead of the symposium.

… ✨Save the Date: September 30, 2025 ✨ Join us for “How can we remake the museum? An opening conversation”—a symposium that brings together thought leaders from across the country to explore how museums can adapt to shifting cultural, political, and social landscapes. We’re excited to share the models and practices we believe hold the greatest promise for the years ahead as we look forward to our new home. Learn more about the event at the link in bio 🔗

📣 Welcome ICA community! We’re kicking off our next chapter as the ICA Pittsburgh with a brand new look and new website. (TYSM @elanaschlenker 🧡! ) We hope you will check regularly to stay updated on news, events, and more, as we look ahead to the opening of our new, expanded home in 2027 in the Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences. Follow along here and check out our new website at the link in bio. 🔗

ICA NEWS: Miller ICA to Become ICA Pittsburgh [Links in bio] The Miller ICA is moving to an expanded home in 2027 to accommodate its growing program and audience. Upon its move, the museum will be renamed ICA Pittsburgh, in recognition of the critical role that the ICA plays in fostering artistic discourse throughout the city and the art world at large. An exhibition space within the new museum will be called “The Miller Gallery” in acknowledgment of Regina and Marlin Miller, whose foundational support helped launch the institution in 2000. The new ICA Pittsburgh will extend the legacy and impact of the institution, which has advanced the work of innovative artists and mounted experimental and academically rigorous exhibitions and programs since its founding. ____ Designs Unveiled for the Museum’s New Home Carnegie Mellon University has simultaneously unveiled the design for the ICA’s new 29,000-square-foot home by ZGF Architects. Located within CMU’s new Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences—an interdisciplinary building at the crossroads of the university and Pittsburgh’s iconic arts and cultural institutions--the new space will nearly triple the ICA’s current size, with galleries across two levels and public programming spaces that will foster community engagement and cross-disciplinary inquiry. ICA Pittsburgh will be the cultural and civic anchor of the Hall of Sciences, which will also house CMU’s Mellon College of Science and School of Computer Science in addition to the new ICA. Groundbreaking for the new building is expected in spring 2024, with a public opening planned for 2027.

TODAY! Sept 29+30: Impossible Music Exhibition Performances + Reception

SAVE THE DATE! Transcendental Arrangements: 109th Annual AAP Exhibition July 29, 2023 - September 3, 2023 July 28, 6-8pm: Reception Artists: Sue Abramson, A.W. Allison, Elijah Burgher, Julia Haft Candell, Jovencio de la Paz, Joshua Challen Ice, Angie Jennings, Ulric Joseph, Eli Kessler, Jessica Labatte, Deanna Mance, Brent Nakamoto, Mikael Owunna, Paula Wilson Organized and juried by: Miller ICA director, Elizabeth Chodos The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) is the oldest continuously-exhibiting visual artist membership group in the country. This year marks AAP's 109th annual exhibition with Transcendental Arrangements focusing on artistic practices that engage with ritual, magical, and supernatural qualities within everyday encounters, serendipitous connections, and ubiquitous symbols in our daily lives. For the first time, AAP’s annual exhibition will include a curated group of artists invited by the juror, who live and work outside of the region, putting local artists in conversation with national and international artists and a broader global discourse. This exhibition is made possible with major support from The Andy Warhol Foundation, the College of Fine Arts, Regina and Marlin Miller, and other individual donors. Image credit: Angie Jennings, Water Weeps in a Vail, 2018. #aap #pittsburghartist #contemporaryart #juriedexhibition @susan.abramson andrew.william.allison @poor_little_ghost_boy @haftcandell @jovenciodelapaz @joshuachallenice @happypuddle @ulric_joseph #elikessler @jessicalabatte @deanna.mance @mr.brentnakamoto @mikaelowunna @paulalights