The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. A sustained moment of emergency, the pandemic obliges us to assess what must be recast and resisted and what, if anything, may be recovered with care. Refamiliarization brings together works of art — from performances and installations, to videos and sculptures — that speculate on and give form to new versions of what could be “familiar.” 430pm Official exhibition opening with light refreshments 530–7pm Performance The Estate of Our Friend Sylvia, Ziv Schneider and Bethany Tabor Schneider and Tabor will preside over an NFT estate sale auction for the recently-deceased virtual Instagram influencer, known mononymously as Sylvia. Please do join us as we celebrate the very full, yet brief life of this virtual personage and bid on the rights to her delightful, digital belongings. 7–8pm Screening Composite Tests: Retrieval by Robert Rapoport, MILK by Hyun-min Ryu, and Corporate Personhood Symposium by Rudolf Lingens Three short films that deal with questions of automation and digital personhood: Robert Rapoport’s Composite Tests: Retrieval meditates on machine learning and digital surveillance; MILK by Hyun-min Ryu offers a playful exercise in human endurance against everyday forms of nonhuman sensing; Rudolf Lingens’s Corporate Personhood Symposium presents a dark, farcical take on constructing identity in digital, late-capitalist society.