Search Engines

With funding from the University of Michigan Arts Initiative, ‘Search Engines: Art, Tech, Justice’ is a new programming series that brings artists to Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus who are deeply invested in leveraging new media to create work that critiques existing social and political inequalities. Search Engines will run from 2023-2025 and host over eight artists from a wide range of disciplines for a variety of presentations, performances, and workshops. Read more.

Coming soon: Search History, a student-led Zine publication from the University of Michigan community to further explore the themes of Search Engines programming.

Events

  • A pink background, a french bulldog wears a ruffled collar, the dog's paw rests on a sign that reads "POWER TO THE PEOPLE"

    Free Screening of Paul Preciado's Orlando

    September 26, 2024

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  • A close-up of the event flier, showing Morehshin who has light skin and short brown hair and a nose ring, a stone statue head, a clump of some material objects, and a deity-like figure

    Rather a Jinn than a Cyborg: a Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari

    May 16, 2024

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  • Lauren has short dark hair and light brown skin, stands in front of a wall with sunlight tossed in odd shapes all around, one sunbeam perfectly frames Lauren's eyes

    “What do you want me to say?” with Lauren Lee McCarthy

    February 8, 2024

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  • Four vague figures, a yellow banner, blue text of the event's title

    Octavia Butler AI: Other Radical Possibilities of Technology - Beth Coleman in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and André Brock

    December 4, 2023

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  • Padme from Star Wars is seated in Asian-like clothing

    Asian Futures, Without Asians with Astria Suparak

    November 15, 2023

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Search Engines In the Media

  • “Artist Morehshin Allahyari discusses art, technology and Western colonialism”

    The Michigan Daily

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  • “Astria Suparak talks Asian culture in sci-fi at UMMA"

    The Michigan Daily

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  • “Astria Suparak discusses techno-Orientalism at U-M”

    The Michigan Daily

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