SOFT SCREENS
MESH_arts
presents
SOFT SCREENS
Nouf Aljowaysir, Anna Frants, Alexandra Lerman, & Mari Nagem
curated by: Isabella Indolfi & Paige King
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 21, 2026 | 6-9 pm
Soft Screens is a group exhibition about the interfaces of our hypermediated reality. Featuring artists Nouf Aljowaysir, Anna Frants, Alexandra Lerman, and Mari Nagem, Soft Screens explores the ways digital media subliminally shape our attention, habits, and agency.
Whether by Captcha command or so-called "intelligent" search, algorithmic systems inhabit—and inhibit—our cognitive and emotional dexterity. How does it feel when a computer translates our identity into data (especially when predicated on Western biases and centralization)? How does silky-smooth screen-swiping alter our relationship with the tactile environment? In the shared dimension of virtual and real, what does it mean to be present?
Bringing together practices that reflect on emergent technologies without strictly relying on them, Soft Screens traces the outline of our entanglement with ever-evolving digital systems and social structures.
Soft Screens will be the inaugural exhibition of MESH_arts, a new space where art meets research, technology and science. Through peer-led public programming–exhibitions, talks, and workshops—Mesh_arts aims to foster inquisitive practices and expand critical conversations on the role of art, and the impacts of technology on society and environment, while reimagining possible futures.
Founded and directed by Isabella Indolfi & Paige King, MESH_arts is currently incubating at the Old American Can Factory, within a dynamic community of cultural practitioners, in Brooklyn, New York.
Soft Screens
On view: May 21 – June 21, 2026 | Fridays – Saturdays 1-6pm, and by appointment
MESH_Center for Art, Research, Technology, & Science
Address: The Old American Can Factory, 232 Third Street, #C302, Brooklyn NY 11215