ISSUE 6: ENCOUNTERING THE OTHERWISE
Spring 2026
Edited By: Zahra Safaverdi and Edward Jiaolin Yu
Exhibition Opening: January 12th, 2026
Encountering the Otherwise is the third and final installment of the Media and Materiality series. This triptych explores both established and alternative ways in which media can expand the concept of materiality: Rather than treating media as representational surfaces, the series posits media as operative environments—synthetic, spatial, and potentially occupy-able—where materiality is enacted rather than merely depicted.
