Planning
Raphael Arar
November 1-30, 2025
Opening Reception
Saturday, November 1, 5-8 pmOpen Hours
Sat-Sun 12-5 pmdrop in or by appointment
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EXHIBITION
In Planning, Raphael Arar extends his research-based art practice into the terrain of collective decision-making. The exhibition moves between earnest proposals and playful provocations, between technical schemas and poetic operations. Each piece navigates the design challenges of organizing ourselves differently, treating economic coordination as both practical problem and aesthetic proposition. The works assemble fragments of other possibilities, leaving open the question of what economic democratic planning might look like.ARTIST
Raphael Arar works at the nexus of complex systems, transdisciplinary design and arts-based research. His work highlights the social, political and economic implications of technological acceleration and human-to-machine interaction. His artwork has been exhibited at venues internationally including the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, The Science Gallery, Moscow Museum of Applied Art, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Gamble House Museum, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, and Athens Video Art Festival. Notable commissions include Noema Magazine, Goethe Institut, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Intel Labs and IBM Research. Commercially, his design work has been featured in publications including Forbes, TED, Inc. Magazine, FastCompany, Wired and others.rarar.com
IG: @rarar