2025 Special Commendation Award
Amelia Winger-Bearskin @studioamelia
I WOULD LIKE TO BE MIDNIGHT / I WOULD LIKE TO BE SKY
Informed by an Indigenous (Seneca-Cayuga) view of the sky as a shared, living system. AI inpainting erases human-made structures; interpolation creates dreamlike shifts. Shown at LMCC NYC, NXT Museum, Schiphol Airport, and top international festivals.
#Lumenprize #Digitalart
The Potluck Detroit
Talking Dolls Studio
May 25th 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Amelia Winger-Bearskin Presents Pleasure Is a Survival Noise, Noise Ritual
Pleasure Is a Survival Noise is a live noise ritual by Amelia Winger-Bearskin, using voice, vibration, movement, and distortion to survive, refuse, and repair. A space for ancestors, descendants, power, pleasure, and hope to become loud
Pleasure is A Survival Noise at The Potluck Detroit 2026 at Talking Dolls Studio
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Pleasure Is a Survival Noise is a live noise ritual by Amelia Winger-Bearskin, using voice, vibration, movement, and distortion to survive, refuse, and repair. A space for ancestors, descendants, power, pleasure, and hope to become loud.
Monday May 25th 5-6pm
https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262054515
Pre-Orders are open. New BOOK drop. Featuring artwork and poetry from (me) & so many of my fav artists.
Shimmer: Artists Dream a Posthuman World
Mark W. Scala and Nora N. Khan (Editors)
Publish Date: August 4, 2026
Publisher: The MIT Press
Description
An eye-opening collection from contemporary artists and authors about how art and technology can reimagine humanity’s relationship with nature and society.
Shimmer—the apt name of both the highly-illustrated book and the exhibition it accompanies—offers a timely collection of essays by today’s key thinkers about art and technology. In this vital showcase that takes on some of the most salient questions of our time, authors and artists consider how a “posthuman” perspective can help inspire new ways to confront crises like climate change, species extinction, technological manipulation, and social alienation.
Here, you’ll find current thinking on interspecies entanglement, the role of dreams in imagining a post-anthropocentric world, a return to the interconnectivity found in prior (mostly Indigenous) technologies, and the power of enchantment. Examining both the advantages and dangers of twenty-first century tools, essayists explore the artistic use of quantum computing, machine learning, motion capture software, and augmented, extended, and virtual reality.
Throughout this engaging collection, the authors show that, like the Surrealists of the twentieth century, many of today’s artists tap the transformative agency of the marvelous, the uncanny, and the unpredictable, destabilizing conventional patterns of thought to open new pathways to unexplored terrain.
Artist profiles include Nancy Baker Cahill, Ian Cheng, Chalet Comellas, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Libby Heaney, Marguerite Humeau, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Kite, Katja Loher, Josefa Ntjam, Rachel Rossin, Jacolby Satterwhite, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Saya Woolfalk, and Marina Zurkow.
The exhibition Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman opens September 2026 at the Frist Museum in Nashville and in 2027 travels to the Media Majlis Museum of Northwestern University in Doha and more
School of Arts and Sciences Presents
HUMANities x Tech | Spring 2026
SKYWORLD
A live performance, film screening, and conversation on Al and housing futures with artist and new Hunter faculty member
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
This event reflects on Al, homelessness, and the possibilities of co-creation for social good, as it brings together live performance, film, and conversation to explore how technology shapes who is seen, who is housed, and who is cared for.
Featuring the live musical performance Glimpse and a screening of the short film / Would Like to Be
Midnight/I Would Like to Be Sky
Wednesday, May 06 2:00-4:00pm
Faculty & Staff Cafe
West Building Eighth Floor
Food by an indigenous chef will be served
RSVP
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School of Arts and Sciences Presents
HUMANities x Tech | Spring 2026
SKYWORLD
A live performance, film screening, and conversation on Al and housing futures with artist and new Hunter faculty member
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
This event reflects on Al, homelessness, and the possibilities of co-creation for social good, as it brings together live performance, film, and conversation to explore how technology shapes who is seen, who is housed, and who is cared for.
Featuring the live musical performance Glimpse and a screening of the short film / Would Like to Be
Midnight/I Would Like to Be Sky
Wednesday, May 06 2:00-4:00pm
Faculty & Staff Cafe
West Building Eighth Floor
Food by an indigenous chef will be served
@nancybakercahill
Imagination, Social Sculpture, & Experiential
Practice in Polycrisis
April 29 | Black Box (HN543)
3:00PM Reception with refreshments
3:30-4:50PM Artist Talk and Q&A
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RSVP for Hunter Community: https://fm-nancy-
baker-cahill-hunter.eventbrite.com
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RSVP for Public: https://fm-nancy-baker-cahill-
public.eventbrite.com
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(Entrance at 69th St between Lexington & Park Ave., bring ID)
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or Attend Online via Youtube live (no RSVP needed):
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Nancy Baker Cahill is a transdisciplinary artist whose work examines networked systems, with an emphasis on the relationships between consciousness, intelligence, and embodiment. She investigates power and its biopolitical impacts, particularly ecological and social harms,
