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#Resonances conversation with artists
Millie Chen and Arzu Ozkal |
Please join your #IFM colleagues on Thursday, 12 March 2026 at 12:00–13:00 EDT (16:00–17:00 GMT) for a #Resonances conversation with artists Millie Chen and Arzu Ozkal on their audio-video installation SRS (Silk Road Songbook), moderated by curators Claudia Costa Pederson and Dale Hudson.
The
#Resonances conversations are an extension of the #IFM conference, an
opportunity for our community to gather in discussion around our mutual
work and interests. The events will feature #IFM members in conversation
with artists, scholars, and practitioners.
REGISTRATION (free admission): Please click here to register for this event.
Millie Chen and Arzu Ozkal’s audio-video installation SRS (Silk Road Songbook)
traces the movement of songs along the Silk Routes from Xi’an to
Istanbul. The multiscreen installation weaves land and songs, as musical
genres and languages maintain cultural identities across the ancient
trading routes into the present. As mapped between Ozkal’s and Chen’s
ancestral homes, respectively between Turkey and China, the work neither
romanticizes nor demonizes these places, but instead moves to include
voices absent in Western accounts of the Silk Routes by sounding five
acoustic ecologies from the Eurasian migration route, connecting women’s
voices and shared ambient sounds of the land.
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Ar Ducao's panel on inclusivity and diversity |
We are pleased to announce that Ar Ducao (they/he) will moderate a special IFM2026 panel titled “Global Black Feminisms and Interactivity.”
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Ducao is an artist, engineer, educator, and organizer whose work supports underrepresented and incarcerated STEAM learners. At DuKode, they created the Telly Award–winning series The Great Tit is a Bird, and their media and innovation work has been recognized by major institutions and outlets. They are also a co-founder of Multimer and teach with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
We will announce the confirmed panelists in the next newsletter.
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#IFM2026 Yet-To-Be-Known accepted subissions - 32 papers and 12 research-creations |
#IFM2026
Conference has received an exceptionally strong and intellectually
wide-ranging set of submissions. From this remarkable pool, we are
pleased to announce 32 accepted papers and 12 accepted
research-creations representing 24 countries and approximately 45 institutions, spanning six continents.
Taken as a whole, these contributions engage “Yet-To-Be-Known”
as a generative space of speculative inquiry and creative possibility:
they examine emergent forms of interactivity and uncertainty in AI and
algorithmic cultures; experimental and participatory archives of memory,
dissent, and ecological loss; more-than-human ethics and speculative
ecologies; and technologies of resistance that respond to the cascading
crises of our present. At the conference, our research-creation program
will offer a dedicated space to encounter these works
firsthand—featuring interactive and immersive projects (including VR/AR,
web-based archives, games, and interactive documentary prototypes) and
creating opportunities for participants to engage directly with the
creators through walkthroughs, demonstrations, and dialogue around
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