Art in the Age of Anxiety

Omar Kholeif, PhD, CF FRSA, is an author and artist; a curator and cultural historian, and a broadcaster who has curated more than 100 exhibitions of visual art, architecture and digital culture.

Todd Reisz is an architect and writer whose work often focuses on cities of the Arabian Peninsula, from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a ‘private ear’, an artist who investigates sound.

Cory Arcangel employs a wide range of mediums to explore how video games and software can rapidly formulate new communities and traditions.

Self-proclaimed ‘Famous New Media Artist’, Jeremy Bailey is a podcaster, venture socialist and the Head of Experience at FreshBooks.

Wafaa Bilal is known internationally for his online performative and interactive works that provoke dialogue about international and interpersonal politics.

Antoine Catala centres his works, ranging from ‘breathing’ installations to holograms and moving sculptures, around everyday communication tools and the ways humans consume media.


Douglas Coupland is a writer and artist best known for his observations on modern-day North American culture.

Working together since 1993, multidisciplinary artist duo Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead produce art across video, sound, sculpture, installation and the virtual sphere.

Simon Denny’s work explores the cultures and values behind contemporary technologies.

Aleksandra Domanović works with sculpture, video and born-digital content, shedding light on the meaning of images and information that shift according to different contexts and historical weights.

Constant Dullaart reflects on the broad cultural and social effects of communication and image processing technologies while critically engaging the power structures of mega corporations.

Cao Fei investigates the intersection of technological development, popular culture and urban transformation in contemporary China. Fluctuating between the documentation of reality and the creation of fantasy, her video and installation work deals with the massive social pressures and modernisation of the changing urban landscape in China.

In his drawings, videos and sculpture, multimedia artist Oliver Laric investigates the productive potential of the copy, the bootleg and the remix.

Media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s interactive installations represent the intersection of architecture and performance art.

Artist duo Eva & Franco Mattes’ work analyses and responds to contemporary digital life, approaching its ethics and politics with dark humour.

Joshua Nathanson’s large-scale paintings draw from diverse visual sources to bridge digital, real-world and psychological realms

Katja Novitskova’s work merges art and science through the use of technological tools.

In an attempt to envision alternative futures, Trevor Paglen investigates the historical moments in which we are living.

Artist and filmmaker Jon Rafman explores the paradoxes of modernity in his sculpture, videos and installations.

Pamela Rosenkranz creates abstract sculptures, works on paper, videos and installations that reference the figurative by alluding to its malleable condition.

Artist and filmmaker Aura Satz works in film, sound, performance and sculpture in order to conceptualise a distributed, expanded and shared notion of voice.

Conceptual artist Bogosi Sekhukhuni works from research to explore cultures and histories of technology.  

Jenna Sutela works with words, sounds and living materials to create experimental installations and performances that bring together biology, technology and cosmology.

UVA’s diverse body of work integrates new technologies with traditional media such as painting, sculpture, performance and site-specific installation.

Siebren Versteeg creates interactive installations by processing digital information, generating codes, manipulating algorithms and allowing the computer to create artworks.

Andrew Norman Wilson’s work in video, photography, performance and sculpture questions corporate hierarchy, the classification of labour, and the uses and effects of technology.

Multi-media artist Guan Xiao primarily works with video and sculpture.

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) is a collaboration between Young-hae Chang (b. Seoul) and Marc Voge (b. Ann Arbor, US).