Ambient Intelligence

Opening Night: Saturday, April 4, 2026, 6:00-9:00
Artist Panel Discussion: Friday, April 24, 2026, 6:00-9:00 pm

A month-long exhibition exploring networked art, responsive systems, and collective identity.

Most spaces we move through today are not passive. They are embedded with sensors – microphones, cameras, motion detectors, environmental monitors – that continuously read the room. This ambient intelligence is typically invisible infrastructure, feeding data into commercial and institutional systems. The exhibition Ambient Intelligence asks what happens when artists and technologists take hold of that same capacity and turn it toward something else.

The exhibition is built around Maestra, an open-source shared network platform developed by collaborating artist and technologist Jordan Timber Snyder. All participating works connect to Maestra, a local network that allows artworks to broadcast data and subscribe to signals from one another. No work operates in isolation. What one piece detects or generates becomes available input for another. The result is a space that behaves more like a living system than a gallery – shaped by collective activity, evolving over time, and different on every visit.