A genre study from Asian and Indigenous perspectives, ”SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed” opens at the University of Melbourne’s Science Gallery. Co-produced with the ArtScience Museum in Singapore (where it debuted as “New Eden”), the show “explores science fiction’s possible roots in Asian philosophy and spirituality” and breaks with Western, male-dominated traditions. Over 30 woman and alternative voices including Morehshin Allahyari, Cao Fei, HONF, Mariko Mori, and Sputniko! delve deep into “hybridity, mysticism, transcendence, and otherwordly utopias.”

Mohawk multimedia artist Skawennati’s new machinima, They Sustain Us (2024), premieres at Gray Area, San Francisco, expanding a music video built and filmed in Second Life into an IRL garment collection and runway performance. Two years in the making and Gray Area’s biggest commission to date, the piece reimagines Three Sisters, beloved personifications of Indigenous staple crops (corn, beans, squash) as futuristic superheroes that celebrate food sovereignty, sustainability, and femininity.