The Arts, Democracy, and Technology | Spring 2026 Forum

This spring, The Arts at Lafayette presents The Arts, Democracy, and Technology, Spring 2026 Forum, a series of public conversations and gatherings that explore how artistic practice can deepen our understanding of democracy in a world shaped by platforms, algorithms, and data.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Mashinka Firunts Hakopian | Writer, Artist, and Researcher

Ancestral Intelligences: Data Feminisms and Algorithmic Coloniality
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is an Associate Professor of Technology and Social Justice at ArtCenter College of Design. She is currently a 2025-27 Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art & Politics at the New School. Gendebien room in Skillman Library.

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Shannon Mattern | Director of Creative Research at the Metropolitan New York Library

Manual Not Included: The Limits of Repair
Shannon Mattern’s writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; sites where data intersect with art and design; and media that shape our sensory experiences. She is the author of four books, including A City Is Not a Computer. Williams Center for the Arts / 108

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Neta Bomani | co-director of programs at the School for Poetic Computation and co-director of Sojourners for Justice Press

Neta Bomani is an abolitionist, learner and educator who is interested in parsing information and histories while making things by hand with human and non-human computers. Neta’s work combines archives, oral histories, computation, social practices, printmaking, paper engineering, zine making and workshops to create do it yourself artifacts. Neta received a graduate degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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The Arts, Democracy, and Technology | Spring 2026 Forum

The Arts

This spring, The Arts at Lafayette presents The Arts, Democracy, and Technology, Spring 2026 Forum, a series of public conversations and gatherings that explore how artistic practice can deepen our understanding of democracy in a world shaped by platforms, algorithms, and data.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Mashinka Firunts Hakopian | Writer, Artist, and Researcher

Shannon Mattern | Director of Creative Research at the Metropolitan New York Library

Neta Bomani | co-director of programs at the School for Poetic Computation and co-director of Sojourners for Justice Press

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Lafayette College Arts & Technology Grant.