Kick off Miami Art Week with the opening of Pérez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) first artist-driven AI exhibition, Techno Firma, by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio. Featuring Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries London; Lauren Monzon, new media program manager at PAMM; Jazia Hammoudi, exhibition co-curator; and artists John Fitzgerald and Luc Alexandre (Unkle Luc), this panel focuses on how artificial intelligence is impacting contemporary cultural and ecological landscapes.
About Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zürich, Switzerland) is artistic director of Serpentine, London, and senior advisor at LUMA Arles. Previously, he was a curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first exhibition, World Soup (The Kitchen Show), in 1991, he has curated more than 400 exhibitions. Obrist has received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence (2011), the International Folkwang Prize (2015), Prix François Morellet (2025), the K11 Art Foundation Prize: Curatorial Lighthouse (2026), and the World Around Visionary Award (2026). His publications include “Ways of Curating” (2015), “The Age of Earthquakes” (2015), “Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects” (2015), “The Extreme Self: Age of You” (2021), “140 Ideas for Planet Earth” (2021), “Édouard Glissant: Archipelago” (2021), “Remember to Dream” (2023), “Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in The Digital Age” (2024), “Wish You Were Here” (2025), and “Life in Progress” (2026).
About John Fitzgerald
John Fitzgerald (b. 1981, Concord, New Hampshire; lives in New York) is an artist who blends creative technology with human-centered storytelling. His large-scale immersive installations merge the playful and the profound, creating transformative experiences that reveal how digital systems shape the ways we see, feel, and connect. His recent work has premiered at Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, SIGGRAPH, and BAM. Fitzgerald has led global projects for the MIT Media Lab, World Expo Dubai, MoMA, and the New York Times. He holds an honors degree in media studies from Brown University. He was a visiting artist at the MIT Center for Art Science and Technology, a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism, and a Pulitzer Center grantee. Fitzgerald is a cofounder of the experiential studio Sensorium and Innovation Director of Onassis ONX in New York.
About Luc Alexandre
Luc Alexandre (b. 1988, Miami; lives in Miami) is a PAMM digital commission artist who examines the transformation of culture into memory. Using installation, moving image, and artificial intelligence, he explores how ephemeral media becomes archived, fossilized, or erased within architectural and institutional frameworks.
About Lauren Monzón
Lauren Monzón (b. 1991, Miami; lives in Miami) is the Program Manager for New Media at Pérez Art Museum Miami where she leads digital art initiatives dedicated to amplifying landmark media from the crossroads of the Americas. Lauren brings over ten years of experience scaling support for artists, audience engagement, and operations at media organizations focused on South Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As a producer, Lauren’s work has screened across festivals and cultural institutions including Sundance, Berlinale, SXSW, Blackstar, Allied Media Conference, New Directors/New Films, and Criterion Collection. For her work throughout digital storytelling and civic media, Lauren was named a Ford Foundation / Rockwood Leadership JustFilms Fellow and Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute Praxis Projects Fellow. She is currently a resident at Bakehouse Art Complex.
About Jazia Hammoudi
Jazia Hammoudi is a curator and cultural strategist focused on 21st-century infrastructures for media arts. Working alongside artists and institutions, she builds the frameworks in which experimental practices can be produced, presented, and sustained. She was the founding Program Director of Onassis ONX, the New York- and Athens-based art-and-technology incubator, where she led curatorial and partnership strategy and built a global platform for art and advanced technologies. As a curator and programmer, she has brought projects to the Venice Biennale, SXSW, and Tribeca Immersive, and forged partnerships with institutions including Lincoln Center, MIT, NEW INC, Centre PHI, and Serpentine Arts Technologies. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art, she began her career at Hauser & Wirth, the Barbican Centre, and Artnet. Drawn to system design for cultural circulation and planetary resilience, she is now Curator & Partnerships Lead at PACT (Planetary Art, Culture & Technology), an interdisciplinary creative consultancy. PACT’s world-first festival Creative Intelligence opened at the Southbank Centre in September 2026. Outside her institutional work, Jazia leads art tours of her native Morocco.
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