Diriyah Artwork Futures (DAF), the primary hub for New Media Arts within the Center East and North Africa, launched its newest exhibition CONTINUUM ’25, showcasing the works of its inaugural cohort of rising artists and mentors.
Artists, cultural leaders and members of the general public flocked to DAF to discover compelling works spanning a spread of cutting-edge technological mediums, together with immersive installations, sound and screen-based works, digital actuality, and AI-generated artwork.
CONTINUUM ’25 options artworks produced by 11 rising artists and two mentors throughout DAF’s inaugural year-long Rising New Media Artists programme. Curated by Irini Papadimitriou, the exhibition explores themes starting from reminiscence, identification and displacement to local weather ecologies, ethics and algorithmic energy.
Developed underneath the mentorship of internationally acclaimed artists Anna Ridler, Karen Palmer and Madeline Gannon, the artworks blur the boundaries between the true and the substitute, the human and machine, the natural and artificial in numerous and compelling methods.
The exhibition kicked off with an enchanting panel dialog between curator Irini Papadimitriou, Tegan Bristow, Director of Schooling at DAF and rising new media artists Khaled Makhshoush, Dhia Dhibi, and Samia Dzair. The dialogue was moderated by Wejdan Reda, they usually mentioned the fascinating and ever-evolving methods wherein New Media Artists are utilizing know-how to develop their inventive practices, whereas additionally highlighting the facility of multidisciplinary collaboration between artists, researchers, and technologists.
CONTINUUM ’25 marks the primary in a brand new sequence of exhibitions at DAF, spotlighting numerous voices shaping the way forward for New Media Artwork within the area and past. The title CONTINUUM displays the ever-evolving nature of inventive inquiry that defines DAF’s groundbreaking Rising New Media Artists programme.
Developed in collaboration with Le Fresnoy – Studio Nationwide des Arts Contemporains in France, the Rising New Media Artists Programme offers rising artists entry to cutting-edge skilled gear and a manufacturing price range, in addition to a variety of multidisciplinary studying alternatives.
The Rising New Media Artists featured in CONTINUUM ’25 embody: Turki AlQahtani (Saudi Arabia); Khaled Makshoush (Saudi Arabia); Salma Aly (Egypt); Samia Dzaïr (Algeria); Aya Abu Ghazaleh (Jordan); Dhia Dhibi (Tunisia); William Brooks (Wales); Junsoo Kim (South Korea); Youssef El Idrissi (Morocco); Kyle Donald Marais (South Africa); and Mohamed Al Mubarak (Bahrain). The mentor artists collaborating within the exhibition are Karen Palmer and Anna Ridler.
CONTINUUM ’25 is open to the general public at Diriyah Artwork Futures and runs from September thirteenth to November fifteenth. The exhibition is accompanied by a wealthy public programme of workshops, talks and different actions spanning AI, VR, digital pictures and rather more. Please see the September programme beneath:
Friday 19 September | Workshop: Tales of Residence: Digital & Hand Embroidery
05:00 PM – 08:00 PM | Language: Arabic and English
On this inventive workshop, individuals will discover the idea of ‘dwelling’ as a spot, reminiscence, or feeling by way of the lens of regional embroidery traditions and New Media Artwork practices. Drawing from embroidery examples throughout the area, and utilizing Photoshop and AI-generated visible prompts, individuals will design symbolic representations of their private narratives of belonging. These digital designs might be translated into hand-embroidered, padded keychains, representing particular person interpretations of dwelling and reminiscence.