Professor Roopa Vasudevan's work will be featured in an upcoming exhibition entitled Technologies of Relation, opening at MASS MoCA in February 2026.
MASS MoCA’s Technologies of Relation brings together twelve artists who reframe how we relate to each other, to digital devices, and to our future. These creators see the complexity of our relationships to the digital, avoiding the binary views that frame technology as good or bad, as tool or monster, and choose to instead embrace how technology, including algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, can both connect us and further marginalize and oppress us at the same time.
Exhibiting artists include: Morehshin Allahyari; Pelenakeke Brown; Taeyoon Choi; Neema Githere; Mashinka Firunts Hakopian with Dahlia Elsayed, Andrew Demirjian, and Danny Snelson; Kite; Lauren Lee McCarthy; Analia Saban; and Roopa Vasudevan.
Roopa Vasudevan’s Requiem for the Early Internet, 2022/2026 mines her formative memories of the internet as she experienced it in her youth, contrasting it with today’s internet. Looking at what was loved about the more democratic web of the past, and sites like Geocities and My Space, she hopes the viewer might be able to imagine — and create — better possibilities for its future. Her series of 100 hand-drawn QR codes, titled Slow Response I ( Drawings), 2021-2022 questions the speed and instant gratification associated with technology and our quick adoption of new technologies—and even their failures — while asking how interchangeable human and digital labor is or isn't.