The IMAGINE Festival (IMAGINE) explores relationships between technology and the human body in action. The festival will include a weekend of film screenings, technology-based workshops, dialogue sessions, and installations throughout the Earthdance grounds.

Multidisciplinary artists Emily Beattie and Cari Ann Shim Sham*, Ellen Chenoweth, Daphna Mero, and KT Niehoff are the inaugural IMAGINE Artists-in-Residence, experimenting with embodied and ecologically grounded approaches to technology over the course of their residencies. Immersive experiences, installations, and films from these residencies will be presented at the 3-day festival, along with films by Sarah Friedland and André Zachery, as well as workshops and other community events. Questions, celebrations, and criticisms around recent technological advancements and ways in which we utilize technology to strengthen or strain connections between people, communities, and the natural environment are experientially explored.