DOLL HOUSE
A living exhibition of thirty artists housed inside a single giant structure. Each window opens onto a different world. Thirty windows, thirty worlds, one house.
VIBE CODE JAM
Live AI coding as performance art. Artists build complete applications in 8 minutes from audience prompts. Created by John Threat at RIP SPACE LA, scaled to 1,400 attendees with Rhizome and Anthropic.
404 MEDIA
A night with 404 Media — the journalist-owned publication reporting on the humans behind technology. Conversations on surveillance, hacking, and the fight for an independent internet, in collaboration with Turbo Cheap.
016: THE ART OF BED
September 26, 2025
Chloë Langford (Fantasia Malware), Alice Yuan Zhang, Huntrezz Janos, Amorette Muzingo
An evening dedicated to live performance, experimentation, and collective presence. Artists exploring language, code, intimacy, and interaction through live and networked media. Featuring sound-poems with loop machines, interactive community building, live poetry, and a performance on digital intimacy.
015: REALLY RADICAL RETURN 2 SCHOOL
September 19-21, 2025
Yuehao Jiang, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Nat Decker, Maisa Imamović
RIP SPACE's first experimental curriculum program: a three-day series of workshops and discussions responding to LA's social, political, and environmental upheaval. Artists engaging with political pedagogy explore how technology can support collective learning, mutual aid, and tools for action.
014: THE SHAPE OF TIME
July 26 - August 3, 2025
Errare Studio (Se Young Au + Kaitlyn Darby)
An immersive sensory exhibition exploring the intersection of digital and embodied worlds through scent, textiles, sound, and digital imagery. California-iconic fragrances act as portals into layered temporalities, inviting a return to grounded, earth-bound awareness in the face of accelerated modern life.
013: SYNTHESIS ASSEMBLY
June 28, 2025
alsoknownasrox, melanie hoff, Drew Sensue-Weinstein, Huntrezz Janos
An evening of performance and improvisation with sound, coding, digital tools, and collaborative AI systems. Exploring hybrid ecologies through human-machine convergence, featuring multimedia performances and a collaborative vibe coding jam where creators interact with machine learning through intuitive prompts.
012: EXHAUSTED APOCALYPSES: AND THE RADICAL IMAGINARY OF ENDS
May 24, 2025
Riley Gold, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Tara McPherson, Kai-Luen Lian
A program asking if rational imagination can speak to the finitude of capital. When real alternatives are absent from social media and critical projects have abandoned the possibility of other worlds, what role does fiction and its technologies play in conceptualizing endings and beginnings?
011: A RADIANT FUTURE | EPOCH'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY
March 22, 2025
Claudia Brăileanu, Ceren Su Çelik, Chris Coleman, Harriet Davey, Sophie Kahn, Parag K. Mital, nouseskou, Yoshi Sodeoka
RIP SPACE x EPOCH celebrate five years of the visionary virtual exhibition space. A RADIANT FUTURE brings together eight internationally acclaimed artists envisioning tomorrow within a speculative 3D model of Three Mile Island, reimagined as a revitalized facility powering Microsoft's AI initiatives in 2028.
010: OPEN WORLD
February 21-23, 2025
Yuehao Jiang, John Threat, Kira Xonorika, Huntrezz Janos + Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou
Artists using exploratory technologies to tell stories of care, connection, climate futures, and collective survival. Works challenge boundaries between human, non-human, and digital worlds through atmospheric adventure games, robot dog performances, collective decision-making games, and XR technologies.
009: SHININHO DOCKING
January 19 - February 9, 2025
Yaloo
A solo exhibition by Korean multimedia artist Yaloo exploring identity, cultural memory, and mythology. Inspired by the artist's grandmother reimagined as a K-pop idol and pirate ship captain, featuring holograms, 3D animations, sculptures, and soundscapes drawing on Pacific Rim maritime trade routes.
008: INTERNET PRESENT TENSE: WHO BUILDS THE WEB??
December 12, 2024
Amad Ansari, Xin Xin, John Threat, Nora Khan, Amanda Beech, Algorythm.Code
An evening of talks, demos, and live performances exploring Cyberfeminism, hacker culture, and their impact on computation and internet ethics. Examining how interface tools are no longer the sole domain of professional developers but are shaped by artists, users, diverse cultures, and social movements.
007: FROM URL TO IRL
October 12, 2024
New Art City x RIP SPACE — Nat Decker, Carrie Chen, Kiki Wu, Soto Sosa x Kat Sung, Serene Blumenthal, Yuehao Jiang, Alice Yuan Zhang
RIP SPACE teams with New Art City for a group exhibition showcasing an offline archive of virtual spaces by LA-based new media artists. Connecting cyber and IRL communities through New Art City's Memory Terminal, the collection spans early lockdown-era works to the present day.
006: ECO ENCODED
September 13-22, 2024
Isabel Beavers, Mischa Kuma, Qianqian Ye + Tiare Ribeaux, John Threat
A media-based exhibition transforming Rip Space into an immersive sonic and visual environment where 3D animation, AI, and experimental sound explore deep connections between humanity, nature, and technology. Synthesizing environmental research on deep ocean mining, oil extraction, and ocean noise pollution into speculative eco-futures.
005: RIB SPACE
August 30 - September 7, 2024
Emory Hall, Chris Johst
A collaboration experimenting with the boundaries of reality in which men grill to win. Featuring real and AI-generated BBQ imagery, edible ribs served on stainless steel sculptures, and 3D-printed trophies recalling the aesthetics of American BBQ competitions. A postcard of latent hyper-masculinity and speculation of future food.
004: SUPERPROMPT
June 1-2, 2024
Sarah Rothberg, strangejane x danielfromyesterday
The LA premiere of Sarah Rothberg's SUPERPROMPT, exploring how speech and communication are mediated through technology. Varying conversational interfaces between humans and AI avatars experiment with large language models, culminating in an interactive chatbot encounter and live electronic music performance.
003: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE // TO FORGE OR NOT TO FORGE
March 30, 2024
Maya Man, Maisa Imamović
A day of cyberfeminist programming centered on authenticity and online identity. Maya Man's lecture on algorithms, self-performance, and the absurdity of crafting identities online, paired with Maisa Imamović's hands-on coding workshop on web page forgery and urgent publishing.
002: VIP RIP
March 2, 2024
Casey Kauffmann, Wednesday Kim, Cassie McQuater, Ásgerður "Ása" Arnardóttir
In the spirit of Frieze Week LA, works reflecting personal experience filtered through the sensory deluge of content, media, and information. Screened works exploring viral fame, social anxiety, and feminist browser-based gaming, accompanied by an installation and live DJ set by Ice Wall.
001: GEN ZEIT
February 1, 2024
John Threat, Drew Sensue-Weinstein
The inaugural event celebrating the launch of Rip Space with the premiere of Gen Zeit, a generative AI hacker artwork. A mixed media installation using AI and coding software to listen to conversations, convert voice to text, and generate images as output, accompanied by an audience-reactive soundscape.
