CURRENTS x RELAY: Ambient Intelligence

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

Exhibition Summary

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.

What You’ll Experience

Works in the exhibition span interactive light and sound environments, sensor-based installations, networked objects, performance-driven systems, and hybrid physical-digital pieces. What they share is an engagement with the idea that intelligence - in the technological sense - is already present in our built environment, and that creative practice can engage with it, reveal it, and give it new meaning.

Because this is an open-call exhibition, Ambient Intelligence also raises questions about identity. Who are we individually when our behaviors, movements, and responses are continuously being read? What emerges collectively when many artists contribute to a single networked environment? These questions run through the work and are left open for visitors to inhabit.

Participating Artists

Jerome Morrison @quantum_jalex + Julian Addams-Wolf @thejulianaddams

Morgan Barnard @morganix

Krista Faist @krista.faist

Rob Gulotta @robgulotta + Sasha Faust @sashafaust

B. Greiner @cubic_snails

Eric Heep @dkfjsal

Mike Root @itrekmoo

Lila Steffan @lilasteffanart + Matt Rybecky

Owen Schwab @owenschwab.art

Zuyva Sevilla @zuyva

Jordan Timber Snyder @pyxel_

Sarah Turner @sarahsarahturnerturner2

Thomas Vause @lingeronvause

Gabe Weisbuch @gabesprofile123

Exhibition Schedule

Dates: April 4th - 24th, 2026

Open Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12:00–6:00 PM

Public Events:

• April 4 - Opening Celebration (6:00–9:00 PM)

• April 24 - Artist Panel Discussion (6:00-9:00pm)

This exhibition is presented in partnership with CURRENTS New Media and RELAY Santa Fe.

Major support from The National Endowment for the Arts