“[I]n the image of…" explores technology’s increasing abstraction of language, space, and culture, and builds upon the shared experience and development of the technical image. With the use of augmented and virtual reality, 3D imaging, and custom algorithms, the exhibition expands upon traditional genres such as sculpture, painting, and cinema to present artworks as worlds within worlds, portals to other spaces and experiences.

Digital Muddy 2.0 - Expanded Media Festival

www.digitalmuddy.com is a publication and festival. The festival will continue to expand, adding dimension to the terms, perspectives, and positions of the terms Expanded Media, which traditionally existed among the disciplines of printmaking, photography, digital interactive arts, video arts, and sonic arts.

“I want to compete with the movies” 

Meme: Romanticism examines five artists' cinematic productions that utilize technological aesthetics, cultural symbolism, historic compositions, and narratives to expose the conceptual underpinning of Romanticism. The exhibition will be set up like a theater, with viewing times allocated by length of the video. 

I proposed the Bulletin Board Café as a sociological tool that supports proximal information to encourage applicable sharing amongst the local art communities and the general public. The Bulletin Board Cafe's installation at Institute 193 was deliberately open to the community and was designed to create and encourage dialogue about any event, activity, interest, project, business, etc.

“They say time always changes things..." Hammer Museum

This series of short films studies how time has been interpreted by experimental film artists from 1963 to the present.

1) Andy Warhol, Kiss,  Bas Jan Ader, Broken Fall (Organic), Jørgen Leth, The Perfect Human, Christian Marclay, Telephones, Joe Diebes, Scherzo, Annika Larsson, Hockey, Reynold Reynolds, Secret Life, Carlo Zanni, My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar. Co- Organized with Julia Fryett under Aktionsart

Nown, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

NOWN exhibits animation, which, in my definition, means work representing the action of an animated Person, Place or Thing. The use of the term, NOWN, is a word play on “now” and “noun,” meant to imply a question about permanence in the current generative virtual landscape. If all is animated, what then can be in the “now?”

Pattern: Modernism as Mediator, Istanbul

Gulcin aksoy, Inci eviner, Tal hadad, Ekrem Yalcindag, Nalan Yirtmac

In this exhibition there are five artists who use history and information systems to recycle and reform cultural movements to create a specific and yet shared languages that directly relate to the essence of Istanbul, and the use of the term, actions of pattern in contemporary art and culture at large.

Thread at Wood Street, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

The term thread has many connotations, relating to craft and technology in the contemporary artist’s studio and in culture at large. The curatorial model of Thread physically emulates the structure of a web log.  Here at Wood Street Galleries, the exhibition is parsed into four categories, simulating threads in a conversation about the resurrection of craft aesthetics within technology-based contemporary art making. 

Copy It, Steal It, Share It  at Borasan Gallery, Istanbul

"Copy It, Steal It, Share It  @ Borasan Istanbul examines the spirit of culture has been hijacked - or not, as the nature of communication is not to be proprietary. The uses of archetypical moments endow its possessors with the power and facility of shorthand communcation thus creating the ICON. Artist: monika bravo,ellen gallagher, reynold reynolds, carlo zanni,space invader,andy deck, godfried donker Organized with Anne Barlow and Michele Thursz

Public.exe at Exit Art, New York City

Proposing new possibilities for the genre of public art inspired by accessibility to and proficiency with technological tools and their impact on cultural production and social systems, the works in this exhibition will exist predominantly outside the conventional white cube gallery space. Co-Organized with Anne Ellegood, and Defne Ayas

Andrew Edlin Gallery

Michele Thursz redesigned and organized the Andrew Edlin Gallery with Witness, featuring Tom Duncan, Paul Edlin, Brent Green, Michael Ryan, and Kristin Meyers, and inaugurated a project room, AE Space. We produced and published A Child's Machiavelli Suite -Claudia Hart and a DVD animation book set. Chico Macmurtrie in the gallery, Tomtemmobile DVD and drawings in AE project room, I produced Macmurtrie’s Anable Basin - floating tree, and Jessie Dunnahoo, main gallery, Jones shop| Phillip March Jones in AE Project Space.  

Art Actually

Concept origin and organized by Michele Thursz & Fatoş Üstek present Art-Actually and will bring together, through a collective production, a group of actions to unite various perspectives on the term art. Art-Ac ally is a flexible basis with a solid standing point: a straightforward approach with a critical attitude. Taking place in a public space widens the borders of a static exhibition. This action will be initiated through the logo Art-Actually, created by web designer Alon Zouaretz, as a sticker that will be distributed through the public sector.