December 6, 2025

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Online (Live Stream on Youtube link with registration)

Moderator: Liz Faust, Exhibition Curator

Free and open to the public 

As climate crises intensify, infrastructures erode, and systems fail, how do artists imagine repair—not as a return to the past, but a speculative reimagining of what could still emerge? In this closing panel of Industrial Afterglow, we turn to visionary artists whose work looks forward with care, creativity, and defiant hope.

“Dreaming Forward” brings together artists who use data, memory, textiles, and artificial intelligence to create portals into possible futures—futures that are rooted in grief, kinship, ecological entanglement, and community imagination. This conversation will explore speculative design, rewilded cities, emotional AI, and ritual as infrastructure.

Panelists include:

• Eunice Hong – whose delicate neural light networks suggest new modes of synthetic empathy and speculative intimacy.

• Dara Lorenzo – whose installations collapse time and memory to build circular models of generational healing.

• Eric Millikin – whose AI-driven animations resurrect extinct marine life through myth and machine vision.

• Alexi Scheiber – whose animated works visualize rewilded, plant-infused futures for post-industrial cities.

Together, they ask: What if dreaming is not escape, but strategy? What if repair begins with imagination?