Every Thing Computer — Opening Reception @ tiat

​Computers have become remarkably powerful, yet the way we interact with them remains uniformly flat. We click, tap, type, swipe, and increasingly, prompt, all on the same rectangles and screens.

​This exhibition asks what else a computer might be.

​Bringing together artists, designers, and technologists working across playful computing and experimental interfaces. The exhibition explores computers that invite different forms of interaction: machines that are tactile, physical, spatial, strange, social, embodied, or alive to their surroundings. Here, computation becomes raw material for play and expression rather than simply a means of efficiency.

​What happens when we design computers around curiosity? When an interface becomes an instrument, a toy, a collaborator, a place, or an object with a personality entirely its own?

​These works imagine an alternate relationship between humans and machines—not necessarily more intelligent computers, but wildly more expressive ones.

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​Come by to check out the artworks, chat with the artists, and hang out with the Era team as we play with some fun, hands-on installations! There will be drinks, light bites, and plenty of strange, tactile, and expressive machines to explore.

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​tiat is the intersection of art & technology! we are an experimental gallery for creative technologists to experiment, exhibit, and expand their practice. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ tiat is 501c3 nonprofit, our EIN is: 39-3448606.

​this exhibition is supported by Era.