Media Under Dystopia 6.0
Looking At Models considers the spectrum from art history's representational figures to technology's stack, with the works displayed adopting the human figure as a consistent visual rhetoric, whatever technology is part of the artwork medium (photography, text-to-image/video AI, ASCII, etc).
Media Under Dystopia 6.0
MUD Foundation presents its Art Week 2025 program Media Under Dystopia 6.0, featuring Looking at Models, curated by Charlotte Kent, citywide public art interventions from the WISPer program’s Guerrilla Hotspot, special presentations with community partners, and live coding performances from The Sound of Art program.
MEDIA UNDER DYSTOPIA 6.0: LOOKING AT MODELS
Miami, FL — MUD Foundation announces its Art Week 2025 program Media Under Dystopia 6.0, presenting the exhibition Looking at Models, curated by Charlotte Kent, alongside a citywide series of public art interventions part of the WISPer program Guerrilla Hotspot. The exhibition will open on Friday, December 5, at the future home of O Cinema – MUD Foundation XRHub. The WISPer activations will precede the opening, taking place December 2–4 as exterior projections on the walls of cultural institutions throughout the city.
The WISPer activations will precede the opening, taking place December 2–4 as exterior projections on the walls of cultural institutions throughout the city.The WISPer activations will precede the opening, taking place December 2–4 as exterior projections on the walls of cultural institutions throughout the city.
Art Week 2025 exhibition + Activations
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2025
Exhibition Opening Party
Opening remarks by Rodolfo Peraza, Founder & Director of MUD Foundation
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2025
Curator–Artist Talk: Looking at Models
With curator Charlotte Kent
Curator-Led Guided Visit (45 min)
The Models of Art History
Situating Statistical Models Through Art
LOOKING AT MODELS
Artists: Boris Eldagsen • Carla Gannis • Emi Kusano • Fabiola Larios • Gretchen Andrew • James Bridle • Maya Man • Michael Mandiberg • Vuk Cosic
Looking at Models examines the idea of the “model” in contemporary culture, spanning its origins in art history, its role in scientific and social representation, and its accelerating influence through AI and computational systems. The exhibition brings together artworks that use the human figure as a visual and conceptual structure across diverse technologies, including photography, ASCII, and text-to-image/video AI.
The artists in the exhibition reflect on how statistical models proliferate and shape a wide range of conceptual and psychosocial models. The artists in the exhibition reflect on how statistical models emerge and then shape a wide range of conceptual and psychosocial models. Although the datasets behind these systems extract information from us, their internal logic ignores how we matter. The recurring human figuration across these artworks becomes a strategy to reinsert our presence, questioning not only how we are expected to be models for the models, but also what these models construct for us.
In doing so, the works critically examine our position within intertwined and often opaque systems such as techno-capitalism, mass and personalized media, posthumanist thinking, and contemporary art itself.
The exhibition is part of the ongoing series Media Under Dystopia, an exhibition program that explores tech-centered art and critical media.
Artists

Berlin-based German artist Boris Eldagsen (*1970) studied philosophy and visual arts at the Art Academies of Mainz, Prague and Hyderabad. Since 2000 his photomedia work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals including ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Edinburgh Art Festival, ELEKTRA Montréal, BACC Bangkok, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

Carla Gannis is an American transmedia artist based in New York and a professor at NYU. Her art is characterized by a commitment to experimentation. Throughout her career, she has worked with an array of mediums and tools, including drawing, painting, video, interactivity, extended reality, and machine learning.

Emi Kusano is a multidisciplinary artist born in Tokyo in 1990. Her practice integrates emerging technologies, including AI, to explore nostalgia, pop culture, and collective memory. Her work has been exhibited internationally in over 20 countries at institutions including M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Saatchi Gallery (London), Grand Palais Immersif (Paris), Museum Francisco Carolinum (Linz), and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and at major international art fairs such as Frieze, Untitled Art Miami, and Kiaf.

Fabiola Larios (b. 1986) is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist based in Miami currently in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex. Her work explores the aesthetics and politics of surveillance, self-representation, and obsolescence in the digital age. Through installations that fuse e-waste, glitter, vintage electronics, and bedazzled surveillance cameras, Larios critiques how identity is shaped by algorithmic systems and economies of visibility.

Gretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, code, and glitter. She is known for her unique merger of traditional mediums and strategic information technology. Trained in classical oil painting through a five-year apprenticeship with Billy Childish, she merges traditional techniques with technologies including AI, search engine manipulation, and robotics.

James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist. They are the author of 'New Dark Age' (2018) and 'Ways of Being' (2022) and their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.

Maya Man (b. 1996, Pennsylvania, USA) is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her work examines dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self. She has exhibited internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; bitforms, NYC; the Museum of Fashion, Antwerp; SOOT, Tokyo; Verse, London; HEK, Basel; and the online platform Feral File.

Michael Mandiberg is an interdisciplinary artist who created Print Wikipedia, edited The Social Media Reader (NYU Press), and co-founded Art+Feminism. Their projects have been exhibited at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, amongst others, and have been written about widely, from Artforum to Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Vuk Ćosić is a canonized classic of net.art and a co-founder of the nettime and Syndicate mailing lists as well as the Ljubljana Digital Media Lab. His basic education as an archaeologist combined with an avant-gardist ethos has provided him with both the long view and rapid bursts of passion necessary for working in the critical media arts. He sometimes writes about himself in the third person.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Zapata Art Gallery Exterior Wall
1333 SW 22nd St, Miami, FL 33145
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Marshall Davis African Heritage Cultural Arts Center Exterior Wall
6161 NW 22nd Ave, Miami, FL 33142
Thursday, December 4, 2025
El Espacio 23 Exterior Wall
270 NW 23rd St, Miami, FL 33142
Feria Clandestina Exterior Wall
7700 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33138


WISPer: GUERRILLA HOTSPOT
A long-running activation from the WISPer program, Guerrilla Hotspot returns to the streets of Miami!
Originally developed by Rodolfo Peraza, in collaboration with Olivia Solis and Jommy Barban, Guerrilla Hotspot launched in the public space of Wynwood (Miami) during the 2017-18 Art + Hack + Data event, addressing how Internet Service Providers design and define our relationship with the internet. The Data Interceptor, a security-like vehicle equipped with a permanent WiFi network, circulated in an activation allowing nearby participants to connect and visualize intercepted digital data footprints through extended reality. It made the invisible visible, revealing the hidden digital traces surrounding us.
In its 2025 activation, Guerrilla Hotspot becomes a hack for reclaiming public space in a city where cultural institutions are increasingly displaced by real-estate pressures. This edition transforms the Data Interceptor into a mobile public art platform: the vehicle will project selected works from Looking at Models onto walls of cultural spaces across Miami, making the exhibition accessible to commuters and passersby throughout the city.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2025
Night of the Living Code
Presented as part of MUD Foundation’s The Sound of Art program, Night of the Living Code features live coding music by Lenny Foret and Kwame Johnson AKA Series.
Night of the Living Code
Live Coding is the real-time creation and transformation of music and visuals by writing code on the spot, the performer’s screen becomes the instrument, algorithms are typed, altered, and executed in front of the audience, generating evolving sonic and visual worlds as the code unfolds.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2025
O Cinema 0 Verse Presentation
Meet, explore, and celebrate Miami filmmakers with Quarantine Rain by Carla Forte and Liberty City by Gina Margillo, presented alongside award-winning micro-shorts that spotlight love, kindness, and joy.
Into the Future: An art community hub (Special Event & Party)
Loop Art Critique: a large artwork that hosts art critiques and experimental exhibitions
Miami MoCAAD Online Museum VR experience on display
Miami MoCAAD’s online museum extends the experience of art beyond the gallery and into everyday life. Together we’re launching a browser-based WebXR venue, accessible on phone, desktop, and VR, that showcases the creativity of the African Diaspora and invites audiences to explore, learn, and return. This partnership reflects our shared commitment to accessibility, education, and culturally rooted innovation.
O Cinema 0 Verse Presentation
A premium art cinema experience
O Cinema is an independent, community-based, mission-driven, nonprofit arthouse cinema in Miami-Dade County and the Beaches featuring first-run films, programs, and events. Our mission is to provide intriguing, entertaining, and superior quality films that audiences will otherwise not see in South Florida.
We work to ensure that the films we present are a reflection of our diverse community and that prices are accessible to the broadest possible audience. We believe in the power of films to change communities and change lives. Through a robust platform of creative, innovative, and engaging programs, we strive to Entertain, Educate, and Inspire.
Loop Art Critique is a large artwork that hosts art critiques and experimental exhibitions
Loop Art Critique is a large artwork that hosts art critiques and experimental exhibitions. Join a critique group through an Open Call or check out the exhibitions below.
Activations
Art Week 2025 Program + Guerrilla Hotspot Activations
December 2–6, 2025 | Miami, FL
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Sponsors & supporters
The National Endowment for the Arts has supported the Media Under Dystopia series of exhibitions by MUD Foundation, through the Grants for Arts Projects program since 2022.
Our programming has been supported by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and the Board of County Commissioners since 2021.
This year, we also have special support from our community partner, O Cinema.


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