MASS MoCA to Present Taeyoon Choi’s ‘Uncomputable Thread’ Lecture Performance

MASS MoCA will present ‘Uncomputable Thread: A Technologies of Relation Lecture Performance,’ an interdisciplinary work by artist Taeyoon Choi, at the museum’s Hunter Center in North Adams, Massachusetts, on Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 1pm. Tickets are $20, or $15 for students, and do not include museum admission.

Created by Choi in collaboration with scholar Alexander R. Galloway, dancer Cori Kresge, and artist Roopa Vasudevan, the lecture performance examines the relationship between textile history and computing. It also considers the artistic and political significance of what cannot be computed, using performance, discussion, and movement to explore the limits of technological systems.

The program begins with a lecture by Choi and Galloway, drawing on their ongoing conversation about the aesthetics and politics of code and textile. Vasudevan will moderate a subsequent discussion, while Kresge will direct a participatory dance performance intended to extend the exchange into a physical and communal experience. The project connects the material histories of cotton and fiber-optic cable, including the cables that run through data centers.

‘Uncomputable Thread’ is presented alongside MASS MoCA’s exhibition ‘Technologies of Relation,’ on view in the Robert W. Wilson Building through July 25, 2027. Curated by Susan Cross, the museum’s director of curatorial affairs, with former curatorial assistant Meghan Claire Considine, the exhibition brings together work by Morehshin Allahyari, Pelenakeke Brown, Taeyoon Choi, Neema Githere, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian with Dahlia Elsayed, Andrew Demirjian, and Danny Snelson, Kite, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Analia Saban, and Roopa Vasudevan.

The exhibition addresses how people relate to one another, to digital devices, and to possible technological futures. According to the museum’s description, the participating artists avoid treating technology as either wholly beneficial or wholly harmful, instead examining the ways algorithms and artificial intelligence can connect people while also oppressing or erasing marginalized communities. Their practices draw on both digital tools and analog forms, including weaving, tattooing, and divination, as ways to think about access, ethics, and care.

Choi is described by MASS MoCA as an artist, writer, and educator who explores the poetics of technology and human relations, often working with images, text, code, and collaborators from outside the arts. Galloway is a writer and computer programmer whose work addresses philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation; he is the author of ‘The Interface Effect.’ Kresge’s practice spans choreography, somatic inquiry, participatory structures, and poetry. Vasudevan, a South Asian-American media artist and researcher based between New York City and western Massachusetts, investigates the gap between narratives about digital systems and their actual implementation and is an assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.