The 2026 programme of concerts, lectures, exhibitions, and performances at the School of the Arts focuses on the theme of Art + Tech x Cosmos =. The opening talk will feature Joasia Krysa, the programme's curator, in conversation with digital art curators Val Ravaglia and Pita Arreola.
Art + Tech x Cosmos =
The programme brings together artists, creative technologists, curators, writers, and thinkers with contributions extending across several thematic constellations: from spiritual and the mythic, socio-technological infrastructures and (de)colonial logics, to speculative futures. Through these contributions, the programme explores the potential to reshape how we think about human and nonhuman creativity, how we experience the convergence of art and technology, and how their imaginative possibilities can inspire new cultural practices and worlds. Curated by Joasia Krysa, Nuno Crespo, Daniel Ribas and José Alberto Gomes
GUESTS
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JOASIA KRYSA
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PITA ARREOLA Pita Arreola is Head of Programmes at arebyte Digital Art Centre, in London, and the Co-Founder of Off Site Project, a curatorial platform dedicated to support new media talent. Since 2017, Pita has worked with over 200 artists from across the globe developing experimental projects that critically explore the social impact of emerging technologies. From 2021-2024, she was Curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is also co-editor of Digital Art:1960s-Now (V&A, Thames & Hudson, 2024), a book exploring the histories behind digital art. |
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VAL RAVAGLIA Val Ravaglia is Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, London. They have a special interest in transdisciplinary curatorial practices and recently curated Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet (2024-25), highlighting art that takes inspiration from scientific innovation between the 1950s and the early 1990s; the exhibition is currently open in Turin’s OGR until 10 May 2026. Val assisted on the complete rehang of Tate Modern’s displays in the run-up to the museum’s expansion in June 2016. They were the Assistant Curator for the 2017 Turbine Hall Commission by SUPERFLEX and for Tate Modern’s Nam June Paik retrospective in 2019, co-curated the free exhibit A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-23) and lead on the touring Tate exhibition The Dynamic Eye: Beyond Op and Kinetic Art, for its versions in Porto (2023) and Istanbul (2024). Their next exhibition is a Julio Le Parc solo show, opening at Tate Modern on the 11 June 2026. |
