Isaac Julien and Mark Nash part of 2026 Media, Technology, and Culture Symposium in California

Isaac Julien is going to be part of a two-day symposium on Media, Technology, and Culture held in Downtown San Francisco and Napa Valley, California on February 19 and 20. 

As digital technologies continue to transform cultural production, the future of media and video art raises urgent questions about how art is made, collected, valued, and defined. In an era shaped by generative AI, automation, and immersive environments, traditional notions of authorship, originality, and materiality are being reconfigured, while the convergence of art and technology continues to redefine the boundaries of creative practice.

At the same time, artists, collectors, and institutions confront persistent challenges around the value proposition of time-based media, the management of limited editions, and ongoing legal and technical issues related to ownership, preservation, and access.

The symposium will explore how technology actively shapes artistic thinking and form. Co-organized by Asia Society Northern California, SFMOMA, and the Kramlich Art Foundation, this two-day symposium brings together artists, scholars, collectors, technologists, and cultural practitioners to address some of the most critical problems facing the field today, as well as to explore how video and media art can be sustained, reimagined, and “reworlded” within evolving technological, ecological, and institutional contexts.