Rebecca Allen presents The Future of Humanity

​​Season 3 of Artwrld Sessions is presented in partnership with Rhizome, the international hub for new media art.

​​Each session is recorded for a live online audience and co-presented by Michael Connor, Executive Director of Rhizome, and Josh Goldblum, Artwrld Founder and CEO. This week we welcome internationally acclaimed artist pioneering digital artist Rebecca Allen.

Rebecca Allen examines how technology is reshaping what it means to be human. Since the 1970s, Allen has used computer art, motion simulation, AI, and generative algorithms to explore the boundaries between body and mind, nature and illusion, physicality and virtuality. Her work asks urgent questions: as technology redefines our sense of reality and identity, what remains distinctly human?

​Drawing on decades of research and practice—from her groundbreaking early work in computer art to recent pieces engaging with biophilia and artificial life—Allen will discuss the evolution of her artistic vision and what the collision of human and machine reveals about our future.

​About Rebecca Allen
Rebecca Allen is a pioneering artist working at the intersection of motion, perception, and advanced technology. Since the mid-1970s, she has explored physicality and virtuality, nature and technology, asking what it means to be human as digital tools reshape reality and identity. Her work spans human motion simulation, AI, generative algorithms, and digital media. Recent exhibitions include Tate Modern, LACMA, MoMA, New Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, and Centre Pompidou. She holds degrees from RISD and MIT.

About Rhizome
Rhizome champions internet art and culture through commissions, exhibition, and digital preservation, online at rhizome.org and in partnership with its longtime affiliate and host, the New Museum in New York City.

​​​Founded in 1996 by artist Mark Tribe as an intimate email list connecting some of the first artists to work on the web and now—more than twenty years later—a thriving nonprofit with robust, multi-tiered programming, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history, definition, and growth of art engaged with the internet.

​About Artwrld

​​​Artwrld is a social discovery app that makes the art world more welcoming, accessible and easier to explore. Now live in NYC and LA. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ More at: artwrld.com