Queering Digital confronts the myth of neutrality in technology. The exhibition brings together thirteen queer and trans artists working in Los Angeles who collaborate with digital tools to disrupt homophobic paradigms and amplify the full spectrum of queer subjectivity. Through code, animation, performance, glitch, and image, these artists reimagine what queer resistance looks like in—and beyond—online space.

At a time of escalating anti-trans legislation, surveillance, and violence across the U.S. and beyond, Queering Digital centers trans and nonbinary artists not as symbolic figures, but as vital theorists and practitioners of digital life. Their work challenges dominant systems of classification and control while offering new ways of sensing, naming, and surviving. The exhibition insists that queer and trans engagement with technology is not marginal—it is foundational.

At its core, Queering Digital is a study in refusal. It resists the idea that visibility alone is progress. It rejects the premise that our online worlds are separate from our embodied lives. And it questions the systems of optimization and surveillance that shape how queerness is seen, sorted, and sold. Rather than replicate dominant tech aesthetics, these artists queer the digital from the inside out—repurposing its textures, tools, and timelines to build something more unruly, more intimate, and more expansive.

Queer and trans people have always been technologists of necessity. From secret printing presses to cruising phone lines, from zines to encrypted browsers, our tools have never been neutral. They’ve been portals—ways to find each other, to archive ourselves, to stay alive. Queering Digital honors that lineage while asking what comes next: What new rituals, new languages, and new networks are being shaped through the daily acts of queer and trans world-building online?

These works invite viewers to trace digital influences as they migrate across bodies, borders, and platforms. They challenge us to see technology not as something imposed from above, but as something shaped from below—through friction, fandom, failure, and fierce imagination.

Exhibiting Artists:  Amina Cruz, Nat Decker, Edgar Fabián Frías, Duane Paul, Andres Payan, Ibuki Kuramochi, Marsian DeLellis, Thanos Valentine, Sammie Veeler, Devin Wilson, Kira Xonorika, Ruby Zarsky, Vita Kari, Jenna Caravello, and Phil Tarley.

︎: Amina Cruz