Image courtesy of the artist
From May 21-23, 2026 New City Arts will present an installation by Holly Zhou.
Holly shares that the mixed-media installation choreographs a conversation between viewers, imagining an ethical, community-based technological system through a programmed typewriter-zine interface.
Holly Zhou (they/them) is a writer and transdisciplinary artist from the California desert, the unceded territory of the Cahuilla and Mojave peoples. Working across video, electronics, sound, software, bookbinding, and collage, Holly’s projects curate experiences mediated by play and a poetics of liberation. As a product of diaspora influenced by Sinofuturism, Holly aims to blur the borders between water and land, the digital and the tactile, and the artist and their audience, forming distributed communities of imagination and care around their installations.
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