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Mika Tajima & Nora N. Khan in Conversation

Saturday, Jun 27, 2026
4 – 5 PM
1201 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles

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Saturday, Jun 27, 2026
4 – 5 PM
1201 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles

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On the occasion of the opening of 37 Dimensions at our gallery in Los Angeles, Mika Tajima will participate in a conversation with critic, essayist, curator, and educator Nora N. Khan on Saturday, June 27.

This conversation will take place within the exhibition space, where Tajima’s luminescent body of work 24 Hour Cosmos, as well as other recent series, will inspire a wide-ranging discussion on art and technology. Activating theoretical approaches in her process-based practice, Tajima engages new methods of abstraction to explore the realm of networked information, sociality, and the self.

Currently serving as Faculty in Creative Technologies at UCSC, Khan writes on philosophy of AI and emerging technologies. Formally, this work attempts to theorize the limits of algorithmic knowledge and locate computation’s influence on critical language.

The conversation will be followed by the exhibition’s public opening reception from 5 to 7 PM.

Mika Tajima

Mika Tajima’s artistic practice materializes techniques developed to shape the physicality, productivity, and desires of the human body. Her sculptures, paintings, videos, and installations focus on the embodied experience of ortho-architectonic control and computational life. From architectural systems to ergonomic design to psychographic data, Tajima's works operate in the space between the immaterial and the tangible to create heightened encounters that target the senses and emotions of the viewer, underlining the dynamics of control and agency.

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Portrait of Nora Khan by Alexa Viscius — Photo: Alexa Viscius

Nora N. Khan

Nora N. Khan is an independent critic, essayist, curator, and educator. Her writing on philosophy of AI and emerging technologies is referenced widely across fields. Formally, this work attempts to theorize the limits of algorithmic knowledge and locatecomputation’s influence on critical language.

She is a member of the Curatorial Ensemble of the 2026 edition of Counterpublic, one of the nation’s largest public civic exhibitions, titled Coyote Time. She was Co-Curator with Andrea Bellini of the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement 2024, A Cosmic Movie Camera, hosted by Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. The edition was the highest-attended in the biennale’s history. As curator of Manual Override at The Shed (2020), she worked with Sondra Perry, Morehshin Allahyari, and Lynn Hershman Leeson on new commissions, in an exhibition that featured major works by Simon Fujiwara and Martine Syms.

She is currently Faculty in Creative Technologies at UCSC, and has served as Arts Council Professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts, History and Theory faculty at SCI-Arc, and professor in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design, where she was nominated for the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her books are AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism (2026), Seeing, Naming, Knowing (2019) and Fear Indexing the X-Files (2017), with Steven Warwick.