Mozilla Festival 2021 (March 8th – 19th, 2021)

Mozilla Festival 2021 (March 8th – 19th, 2021)

System Failure. Please Restart. - A New Media Exhibition

Join 20+ artists as they dismantle, critique, interpret, and reinvent the future through their chosen medium, to design for justice and for community --to help us reimagine a more hopeful, equitable future.

System Failure. Please Restart. is an art exhibition set in a virtual abandoned mall turned gallery with the artworks as the remnants and artifacts. The spaces conjure up feelings of ruin and desolation–particularly in the wake of social distancing and forsaken retail shops. The CETI virtual gallery is a space to radically reimagine the future and to welcome artists and designers to open a dialogue about our own role in technological evolution.

Users can enter the mozilla hubs galleries through our webpage, https://ceti.institute/mozfest2021/


What is the goal and/or outcome of your session?:

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How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:

Since the original opening of the exhibition "System Failure. Please Restart" on October 23rd, 2020, we have received a large quantity of feedback and analysis. The CETI team will use this provided feedback and information to optimize the performance and accessibility of the hubs gallery.

We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:

CETI will convene groups of artists, technologists, theorists, and community members to create future galleries; and launch exhibitions and dialogues to reimagine what co-created inclusive, accessible, virtual gallery spaces reveal about our world and what it might become. We hope to continue to spread the Mozilla Hubs toolkit amongst the community of artists and designers as an accessible point of entrance into virtual world-building.

Marin Vesely is a new media artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her work centers around the meeting point of art, technology, and activism.

Alanna Risse is an artist, educator, and technologist based in Portland Oregon.

Shannon O'Brien's work in new media arts uses the beauty and whimsy of mathematics and AI

Monica McGrane is an intermedia artist and animator based in Portland, OR.

Hilary Tsai is a media artist and motion designer with a special focus on music.

Jesse England is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Portland, Oregon.

Stephen Lee is a designer and educator based in Portland, OR.

Dan Fernie-Harper is an artist and videographer based in Auckland, New Zealand