bitforms gallery

Founded in 2001, bitforms gallery represents established, mid-career, and emerging artists critically engaged with new technologies.

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@YesClaudiaHart in conversation with Jakob Dwight for @whitehotmag on four decades of intermedia work, her Digital Combines, and receiving ACM SIGGRAPH’s 2026 Distinguished Artists Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art.

https://t.co/gPdrOTR7qJ

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this is too cool

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Tomorrow is the last day to see "time is a flat circle".
Exhibition closes Sat, Aug 1.
Gallery hours: 11 AM to 6 PM.

Featuring: Erick Antonio Benitez, Ricardo Cabret, Lou Fauroux, Umber Majeed. In collaboration with Rip Space, co-curated by Vera Petukhova and Valerie Oakley.

The gallery is on break Aug 3 to Sept 9, 2026.
We will return and welcome you back on Sept 10 with Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. @mccoyspace

Install views: Max C Lee

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Umber Majeed is a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital and Electronic Arts! See her work in our current show, time is a flat circle. Majeed's writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens.

Images in order:
WE CAN FIX IT, 2025
Duniya = Temporal World, 2018
Cone of Light, 2018.

WE CAN FIX IT draws inspiration from the storefront graphics of phone repair shops in Jackson Heights, Queens. Majeed translates this everyday commercial language into ceramic, creating an A-frame sign bearing the titular phrase, rendered in a medium defined by its brittleness. The work sits within Majeed's broader inquiry into how identity and history are carried through visual systems: state iconography, family records, and the aesthetic language of the Pakistani diaspora.

time is a flat circle is open through August 1. The Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 11-6.

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Manfred Mohr will be exhibiting works from the @CentrePompidou permanent collection in an exhibition “Computer Worlds". This exhibition will be opening September 24 - February 14th.

Created entirely from Centre Pompidou's collections, “Computer Worlds” retraces the history of digital creation from the 1950s to the present day. This group exhibition, at the intersection of artistic disciplines, showcases pioneering works by the founders of digital art along with the most cutting-edge contemporary creations. Since the second half of the 20th century, artists, designers and architects have constantly adopted technological tools, subverted their uses and expanded their potential through innovative, critical and experimental approaches. From the emergence of cybernetics in the 1950s to recent developments around artificial intelligence and NFTs, the exhibition explores the never-ending history of connections between art and technology. Through nearly 180 works – digital and graphic pieces, installations, architectural models and design objects – and archival documents, “Computer Worlds” offers ways to interpret the relationship between art and technology

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Pictured is Ricardo Cabret’s Alternate perspectives, same reality, 2026 and Carrier of Entropy, 2026

Within Cabret’s practice, a tension between the systems used to organize space and the disorder those systems inevitably fail to contain is often personified by the presence of a grid.

Join us for an artist talk in our current exhibition time is a flat circle. Participating artists Erick Antonio Benitez, Ricardo Cabret, and Umber Majeed will be in conversation with co-curators Valerie Oakley (bitforms gallery) and @_vera_petukhova_ , founder of @rip__space , a Los Angeles-based curatorial platform dedicated to future-oriented creative practice and emergent art forms.

RSVP through the link

time is a flat circle is open through August 1.

https://t.co/UHmwgb1LoA

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Currently on display at the @museumartlight Wheel Mirror pictured above by @daniel_rozin in a major retrospective of his work.

2026, Mounted bicycle wheel, round screen, camera, computer, custom software.

This work is included in “Interference: The Interactive Art of Daniel Rozin”
running through September 27, 2026.

For over three decades, Daniel Rozin has created interactive artworks that place the viewer at the center of image-making. Working with technology, custom software, physical materials, and kinetic motion, Rozin uses his practice to investigate how images are formed, perceived, and transformed through participation.

In Interference, Rozin turns his focus explicitly to interference patterns—moiré effects—the shimmering, unstable visual phenomena that emerge when two patterned systems are overlaid and set into motion. These effects were extensively explored by Op Art artists in the 1960s, and most notably by Jesús Rafael Soto, who over several decades created hundreds of works investigating visual interference, vibration, and optical instability.

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bitforms gallery is featured in a @RtClick_Save article celebrating the 25th anniversary of the gallery. Read the interview between Louis Jebb and Steven Sacks through the attached article. This article highlights the journey from the first location in Chelsea to the current location at 131 Allen Street, New York.

Article below!

https://t.co/2kdxagzsCK

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@RavenKwok As Rafael Lozano-Hemmer does not have accounts on X, he has asked us to share the following updated link: https://t.co/GETwV5Wd2L

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Thanks @OurCultureOC for naming the bitforms / Max Estrella Basel booth the most thought provoking.

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@luisjglz @ArtBasel As Rafael Lozano-Hemmer does not have accounts on X, he has asked us to share the following response on his behalf: https://t.co/GETwV5Wd2L

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Opening today @ArtBasel
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Zero 10 - Booth Z05

Black Hole is a brand new work premiering at Art Basel. At the center of the spiral is a panoptic surveillance camera, a “black hole” that tracks and capture the gaze of the viewers, registering their presence as a biometric input that activates and transforms the work. The piece draws attention to the seductions of visibility—recognition, inclusion, and self-imaging —while simultaneously exposing the camera as a device of predatory vision. In this way, the installation reflects on contemporary cultures of metrics and surveillance, where seeing oneself is inseparable from being measured.

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Join us tonight for the opening of ‘time is a flat circle’ , the New York debut of Rip Space in collaboration with @bitforms co-curated by Vera Petukhova and Valerie Oakley.

Bringing together works by Erick Antonio Benitez, Ricardo Cabret, Lou Fauroux, and Umber Majeed, the exhibition explores how contemporary mythology is constructed, circulated, and transformed through digital images, networked systems, infrastructure, memory, and cultural exchange.

Opening reception:
Thur, 6/18 6:00 - 8:00 PM
📍bitforms gallery, NYC

New York friends, artists, curators, and community members - we would love to see you there!

RSVP: https://t.co/WnWkinvAHS

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ART BASEL 2026 // ZERO 10 💎

What once lived on the margins of the art world is now firmly part of the main conversation.
This year, Art Basel Basel welcomed Zero 10 for the first time - a dedicated platform for artists working across technology, media, code, light, AI, and digital culture. What was once considered “new media” is now becoming an integral part of the contemporary art landscape.

It was great to see our friends at @bitforms presenting Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. One of the works shown by the gallery was acquired by the CityX Foundation even before the fair officially opened. Together with Rafael and the gallery, we are now preparing an exciting institutional initiative with one of the world's leading museums. More on that very soon.

Among the highlights of Zero 10 this year were presentations by Hito Steyerl, Ryoji Ikeda, Avery Singer, Agnieszka Kurant, Jan Robert Leegte, Vera Molnár, Harold Cohen, William Mapan, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - artists who continue to expand the vocabulary of digital and technologically driven art.

Digital art no longer feels like the future.

It feels like very present!

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#ArtBasel #ArtBasel2026 #Zero10 #DigitalArt #ContemporaryArt #NewMediaArt #CityXFoundation #ArtWorld #Basel

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tune in to our IG Live (https://t.co/dwQWJwBhYm ) to see @sarahrothberg share a special interactive version of FOREVER MEETINGS for Basel Social Club’s OFFICE theme.

Two AI-driven avatars are stuck in an endless meeting, and your questions about OFFICE LIFE will be fed into the work in real time.

You might wonder:

🕒How early can you leave before a holiday wknd?
🚽How many times per day is it okay to get up to pee?
❌Do we really have to circle back?

Join the livestream to ask at the meeting.

FOREVER MEETINGS is currently on view IRL with bitforms at Basel Social Club Floor -1.C.