TechnoMirage: Creative AI Futures

Event Date / Time:

Date: 4th November, 2025

Time: 11am - 12:30pm EDT

Online (Zoom)

Event Description:

Join Underground Art and Design and Parsons School of Design for a global conversation on how creative AI is transforming the future of art and design. Artists, designers, and technologists will share how they are working with and questioning AI in their creative practice. Panelists will explore themes of authorship, ethics, and access, and how these shifts are redefining process and collaboration in creative fields. Designed for students, educators, and professionals alike, this session invites participants to reflect on creative agency in an AI-saturated world and imagine futures of creative labor that keep humanity at the center.

Panelists:

Jazsalyn

Jazsalyn is an artist and technologist developing Ancestral Intelligence (2020–present), a framework exploring alternative AI and early forms of knowledge systems, philosophies, and traditions passed down through generations within indigenous and diasporic communities. Her work has been supported by Serpentine Arts Technologies, New Museum, Pioneer Works, Creative Time, and more. She has lectured at institutions including Harvard University and has been featured in publications such as Contemporary And, Cultured Magazine, It's Nice That, Vogue, and The New Yorker.

Ziv Epstein

Ziv Epstein is an American multi-media artist whose artworks are concerned with critical worldbuilding and human agency in era of artificial intelligence. Ziv's work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, New Art City, The Vienna Museum of Technology, Muzeum Sztuki, the MIT Museum, and Burning Man. His work has been featured in outlets like the New York Times, Scientific American, and NPR.

Joaquina Salgado

Joaquina Salgado (b.1995, Argentina) is a Berlin-based post-digital artist whose practice explores the entangled relationships between technology, the human body, and digital consciousness. Working at the intersection of art and science, she creates interactive installations, interfaces, virtual environments, and audiovisual performances that interrogate identity, memory, and perception within technological systems.

Dominika Čupková

Dominika Čupková is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher connecting the dots between AI, art, design, and technology, with experience in PR, marketing, and research. She is a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where she explores what happens at the intersection of AI and design through a feminist lens. In 2024–2025, she was a visiting artist researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute and the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the founder of the Institute of Machine Unlearning, a para-academic platform for workshops that critically and playfully reimagine our relations with technology and AI. She also co-founded Ladies, Wine & Design Slovakia, an initiative supporting women in the creative fields. Across her projects, she works to bring forth alternative narratives aimed at envisioning and creating a fairer, more inclusive AI.

Co-hosts:

Amy Xiaofan Jiang

​Amy Xiaofan Jiang is a designer, artist and curator working at the intersection of technology, speculative futures, and collective world-building. Her work often creates participatory infrastructures for artistic communities navigating hybrid forms and precarious conditions. She is currently a member at the NEW INC’s Year 12 Cooperative Studies track by the New Museum.

​In 2022, she founded Underground Art and Design (UAAD), an online platform uplifting experimental practices across art, design, and emerging technologies and has organized virtual and in-person events, including exhibitions, panels, performances, and workshops. These projects center interdisciplinary dialogue and have engaged international audiences through collaborations with emerging artists and activists.

Julienne DeVita

​Julienne is a designer turned futures practitioner encouraging people to think, feel, and act differently for the long-term. As the founder of Liminal, a design futures agency, she blends strategic foresight, systems thinking, and design methodologies to develop strategies 5+ years into the future. Julienne is an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design where she teaches courses across AI, design, and strategic foresight. She conducts research with the university at the intersection of creativity, AI, and the future of labor. She is co-founder of the embodied futures collective, and chapter lead of Futures Friends NYC.