Happenings

The Furman Department of Art is hosting an exhibition with multimedia artists Atefeh Farajolahzadeh and Megan Young in Thompson Art Gallery of the Roe Art Building. The exhibition features videos, textiles, and experimental animations that explore the personal and communal effects of migration. Drawing from each artist’s distinct migratory experience, the artworks reflect on how…

Join us for a beginner-friendly workshop exploring TouchDesigner as a tool for interactive performance and visual art installation. Designed for artists and creatives new to the software, this hands-on session introduces the basics of real-time visual programming, responsive environments, and integrating sensors or sound. Participants will explore ways of creating dynamic visual outputs and interactive…

Megan Young is collaborating with TuckerGurl productions to develop an experimental short documentary on The Carry Root project. This summer, three of our Cleveland-area core contributors met in Black Valve’s studio to share their experiences with the project. Shown here, Angela Tucker and Duane Prefume work to capture the world of the work. This project…

Fuzzy Boundaries has been awarded Best Experimental Film by the Art Film Awards Festival. Created by Megan Young with narration by Ephraim Nehemiah, the combines documentation combines games with drones, documentation of protest actions, and aerial renderings of residential spaces with poetic reflections. Emerging from the Sign Stealing initiatives, Fuzzy Boundaries compares technically mediated forms…

The Carry Root Project is being expanded for presentation in the Cleveland Institute of Art’s new Interactive Media Lab, XR Studio. This evolving installation invites viewers to interact with Carry, a custom AI “StoryCatcher” developed by Young and collaborators through a socially engaged process with Cleveland-area contributors. The installation features large-scale projected media set against…

This 30-minute audio-responsive media project was developed in collaboration with solo guitarist JIJI. The project’s title evokes the quiet persistence of light as it moves through bodies, materials, and histories. Young draws inspiration from lumen prints, optical prisms, and naturally occurring phenomena like refraction and shadow, to craft a tactile visual language for Seattle Symphony’s unique…

The International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Arts has published their academic program featuring the paper, “Where We Belong: Leveraging Participatory Design in Creating Conversational AI,” detailing development and testing of The Carry Root project. Young and research assistants from the Luddy School graduate and undergraduate programs consider how we may develop more ethical AI and how…

Students in Young’s Interactive Art and Advanced Interactive Art courses are hosting an open play session to celebrate their work this year. Guests are invited to play with a range of projects—including video installations, net art, game design, and more. Sixteen students are showcasing their final prpjects, developed in response to the camouflage theme, explored…

Megan Young is presenting a design study from The Carry Root Project at the 30th International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA ’25), hosted by Seoul National University. The research explores how collective memory can inform new modes of AI development, drawing from socially engaged methods and community-based data practices. Aligned with the symposium theme 동동…

The Carry Root Project is being featured on WFIU/NPR in an in‑depth audio interview by Alex Chambers exploring how this AI-driven installation collects and reflects personal migration stories. The segment highlights Carry, the custom “StoryCatcher” AI, and shares the socially engaged process—with local and national contributors—that shapes its evolving archive. Listen to the full conversation…

Megan Young recently presented her research at The Bloomington Symposium: Intelligence gathering hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana University as a co-organizer of the “Bodies of Intelligence” working group described by IU News. In her talk, Young pressed fellow researchers to consider how human intelligence is not merely an abstract cognitive property…

On the occasion of the 2024 Movement and Computing Conference, Megan Young presented research on how critical pedagogies may increase access and belonging within digital art curricula. This makes part of an ongoing research focus developed with co-contributors Clay Scofield, Elsie Edwards, and Lyndsey Gillespie considering how teaching approaches may better support diverse creative production.…

Young invited researchers from around the world to experience With What?, a socially engaged digital archiving project presented within an extended reality installation at the Parnassos Cultural Center in Utrecht. The installation was presented by MOCO ’24 and Young’s article on the work published within the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Journal. 6/2024 Utrecht,…

The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery is hosting a free public event to celebrate the opening of In Touch, a group exhibition of Ohio artists curated by Megan Young. Featured Artist Include: Hala Abubaker, Kate Budd, April D. Felipe, Amber N. Ford, Kate Hampel, Elaine Hullihen, Yusuf Dubois Abdul Lateef, Rebecca Nava Soto, Pipo Nguyen-duy,…