Press Kit
Techspressionism is an international art movement built on one idea: technology can express emotional experience. In January 2027 it comes to Paris for its first European exhibition.
Techspressionism: Expression in a Technological Age — documentary trailer · 3 minutes 45 seconds. Watch on YouTube.
Press contact: Colin Goldberg · press@techspressionism.com
PARIS // JANUARY 2027
Techspressionism: New Visual Languages, the movement’s first European exhibition.
Mémoire de l’Avenir, 45-47 rue Ramponeau, 75020 Paris (Belleville)
January 22 to March 27, 2027 · Thursday to Saturday, 1 to 7 pm, or by appointment · Free
Curated by Margalit Berriet, founder and director of Mémoire de l’Avenir, with co-curator Helen Margaret Giovanello. Catalog with a foreword by Helen A. Harrison.
Group One, January 22 to February 20: Moritz Albrecht, Colin Goldberg, Renata Janiszewska, Tikoi Kuitenbrouwer, Tommy Mintz, Philippe Ormières
Group Two, February 26 to March 27: Lee Day, Roz Dimon, Gregory Patrick Garvey, Gregory Little, Stephen Paré, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Annette Weintraub, Michael Woodruff
The Exhibition Reel: a motion-art survey curated by Colin Goldberg, with 78 artists from 24 countries, from Argentina and Australia to Iran, Libya, Kazakhstan and Taiwan. It screens in the gallery for the full run and premieres online on January 22, 2027.
Press previews at 12:30 pm on Friday, January 22 and Friday, February 26, before each opening (public reception 6:30 to 9 pm, performance at 8 pm). International Nocturnes, in the gallery and on Zoom: Thursdays, February 4 and March 4, 6 to 7:30 pm Paris time, 12 pm to 1:30 pm Eastern time.
“‘Techspressionism: New Visual Languages’ at Mémoire de l’Avenir affirms the movement’s creative objectives, which break the confines of nationality, language, and cultural history.”
Helen A. Harrison, from her foreword to the exhibition catalog
THE DOCUMENTARY
A short documentary on the movement, with art historian Helen A. Harrison, longtime director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, and artists including Sasha Stiles, Frank Gillette, Carla Gannis, Claudia Hart, Suzanne Anker, Patrick Lichty, Michael Rees, Oz Van Rosen and Steve Miller.13 minutes 21 seconds · English. Full film, transcript, chapters and credits · Watch on YouTube.
ABOUT THE MOVEMENT
Techspressionism is an art movement built on a simple idea: technology can be used to express emotional experience. The artist Colin Goldberg coined the term in 2011. Its 2014 manifesto took a position that now sits at the center of the argument over AI and art: “Nothing is ever truly computer-generated,” and “the human mind has always provided the code.” WIRED quoted both lines that October. Since 2020 the movement has grown online into a community of more than 450 artists in 50 countries, who meet in recurring virtual Salons, recorded and archived on YouTube. They work in painting, drawing, video, code, animation and augmented reality, and have shown in museums and galleries from New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to Uzbekistan. In January 2027 the movement opens Techspressionism: New Visual Languages at Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, its first European exhibition, with a motion-art reel of 80 artists from 24 countries.
// KEY FACTS
- Term: coined by Colin Goldberg in 2011. Manifesto published September 2014.
- Community: 450+ artists in 50 countries. Monthly virtual Salons since 2020, archived on YouTube. [PLACEHOLDER: number of Salons held to date]
- Hashtag: about 87,000 Instagram posts tagged #techspressionism. [CONFIRM: current count and the date it was checked]
- Artist Index: the Techspressionist Visual Artist Index, a curated, invitation-only list of artists working with technology. [PLACEHOLDER: number of artists in the Index]
- Press: WIRED, “If Picasso had a Macbook Pro,” October 2014. Full coverage list.
- Scholarship: exhibition catalog Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond (2022), foreword by Helen A. Harrison. Subject of a 2024 academic case study by Paraskevi Sofia Lazaridou. Publications.
// SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2027 · Techspressionism: New Visual Languages, Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, with a reel of 80 artists from 24 countries (forthcoming)
- 2026 · Techspressionism 2026: Los Angeles and Beyond, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
- 2026 · A New Media Techspressionist Architectures-AR Experiment, ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, SIGGRAPH 2026, Los Angeles [CONFIRM]
- 2025 · Hello Uzbekistan: Techspressionism 2025, Contemporary Art Museum of Uzbekistan (CAMUZ), Urgench, then Art Station, Samarkand
- 2025 · Techspressionism in LA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
- 2025 · Hello Chelsea // Techspressionism 2025, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York
- 2025 · Four Techspressionist Artists, 150 Media Stream, Chicago
- 2024 · “Hello, Brooklyn!” // Techspressionism 2024, Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn
- 2022 · Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, New York
DEFINITION
techspressionism /tek-spresh-uh-niz-uhm/ noun
An artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience.
Coined by Colin Goldberg, 2011.
[PLACEHOLDER: audio pronunciation player (techspressionism.wav) · links to dictionary listings once published]
// QUOTES
“Unlike graphic design, digital reproduction, or decorative computer art, Techspressionist imagery arises from the same impulse as early twentieth-century expressionism, which aimed to expose the interior feelings and energies beneath surface appearances.”
Helen A. Harrison
“Now the brush has been replaced by the computer, using pixels rather than paint. As a widely varied approach rather than a unified style, Techspressionism embraces many expressive dialects.”
Helen A. Harrison
PRESS RESOURCES
// STILLS AND IMAGES
High-resolution stills from the documentary and installation views, cleared for editorial use with the credit shown.
[PLACEHOLDER: 6 to 8 stills with credits and a “Download all (ZIP)” button · logo files]
// BIOS
Colin Goldberg is a visual artist based in North Bennington, Vermont, and the founder of Techspressionism, a term he coined in 2011. His work joins paint, digital drawing and augmented reality. The Hearst corporate collection acquired his metagraph Kneeling Icon in 2023. His essay The Subjective Machine argues for expressive uses of AI.
Helen A. Harrison is an art historian and the longtime director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. She has been associated with the movement since 2011. [CONFIRM: wording]
[PLACEHOLDER: short bios of the artists featured in the film and in Paris]
// PRESS CONTACT
Interviews with Colin Goldberg, and introductions to artists in several countries and languages, on request.
Colin Goldberg, founder
press@techspressionism.com