Site Interruptions
Thursday, July 2, 2026 – Sunday, July 25, 2027 · All day
Museum of the Moving Image · New York, NY
About this event
Site Interruptions is a new series of artist commissions unfolding across MoMI’s homepage and unexpected locations in the Museum’s building. Since the advent of the web browser, artists have recognized the website as a medium for artistic production, treating the architecture that determines how a page is built and navigated as part of the work itself. Building on MoMI’s multi-decade history of presenting web-based projects, Site Interruptions marks a renewed commitment to commissioning work for online contexts. As online systems and behavior increasingly organize everyday life beyond the screen, the series reflects the symbiosis between networked experience and the onsite spaces where social and cultural life is felt offline. Each project in the series unfolds in two interdependent forms: a work on MoMI’s homepage and a corresponding installation onsite. Works on the homepage alter the visitor’s encounter within the website, while the in-person installation appears in an unlikely space, inviting visitors to seek it out within the building. The Museum will present four commissions over the course of a year, with artists exploring such ideas as spam (to be deactivated at the museum), sensors, and HTML trees, creating new encounters within the museum and the website as its extension. Steve Pikelny: July 2–October 4, 2026 Gabriela Garcez (aka Godmin): October 8, 2026–January 10, 2027 Ursula Endlicher: January 14–April 18, 2027 Chia Amisola: April 22–July 25, 2027 Organized by Regina Harsanyi, Associate Curator of Media Arts Presented with support from Raster Eyes Currently on view: Steve Pikelny (b. 1989, United States) MoMI Site Interruption Activation, 2026 JavaScript, HTML/CSS, webpage with sound Steve Pikelny is an artist and engineer who builds websites that should not be trusted. Drawing on the visual language of the earlier web, his projects borrow from pop-up windows, deceptive advertisements, fake news, pyramid schemes, and other dubious online ventures. For Site Interruptions, Pikelny turns the Museum’s website into something between a browser hijacker and a clicker game. Visitors who choose to “upgrade” the site pass through warnings, nerve-racking prompts, and prolonged loading bars before arriving at “MoMI 2.0.” An activation code can be generated online, but visitors to MoMI will be given special access to an alternative sequence.
Event details
- Date and time
- Thursday, July 2, 2026 – Sunday, July 25, 2027 · All day
- Venue
- Museum of the Moving Image · New York, NY
- Category
- Museums & exhibitions
- Cost
- Cost not stated
- Age guidance
- Age guidance not specified
- Format
- In person
- Last verified
- September 22, 2026
Accessibility
Wheelchair: Not stated
Assistive Listening: Not stated
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