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“Hello Uzbekistan” // Techpressionism 2025

The Contemporary Art Museum of Uzbekistan (CAMUZ) presented Hello Uzbekistan: Techspressionism 2025, a group exhibition foregrounding the work of digital media artists engaged in the expressive potential of emerging technologies. Bringing together diverse artistic approaches, the exhibition examined how new media can extend image-making into expanded forms of emotional and visual articulation. The exhibition opened to the public on September 25, 2025. View installation images.

Shirin Tashova, the Director of CAMUZ, describes the exhibition “Hello Uzbekistan: Techspressionism 2025″ as a unique cultural event that brings our world closer together. This group of artists is engaged in explorations of a new contemporary movement that combines Technology with Expressionism. She describes the work they are presenting as “. . . vivid, provocative, and fascinating. It moves us to contemplate and to delight.”

Art Station in Samarkand

Following its presentation at the Contemporary Art Museum of Uzbekistan (CAMUZ) in Urgench, Techspressionism: Hello Uzbekistan traveled to Samarkand for its second institutional stop in December 2025, hosted at the Art Station in Samarkand. Art Station has provided a contemporary framework within one of Central Asia’s most historically significant cities. In Samarkand, the exhibition further advanced its exploration of technology as a vehicle for emotional and cultural expression, engaging new audiences within a city historically defined by exchange along the Silk Road.

American Corner and Makerspace Qarshi

Following the Samarkand exhibition, the US Embassy in Uzbekistan facilitated the screening of the Digital Reel and a series of accompanying virtual presentations at the Makerspace at the American Corner in Qarshi, Uzbekistan.

Featured Exhibiting Artists

Lee Day, Roz Dimon, Gregory Patrick Garvey, Gregory Little, Negin Ehtesabian / Patrick Lichty, Stephen Paré, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Annette Weintraub, and Michael Woodruff. While this core group is composed of 9 American artists and 1 British artist, a digital screen expands the exhibition with the work of 28 additional artists, including artists from the USA, Canada, Iran, and India.

The exhibiting artists are part of a larger Techspressionist community. This is a global, and growing, group of artists connected through online salons, interviews, and co-working sessions. Artists from around the world are united, not by a single aesthetic but by a shared interest in using technology as a means of creative self-expression. From traditional art backgrounds to self-taught digital practitioners, the community embraces a wide range of voices and techniques.

Cynthia Rubin with Museum Director Shirin Tashova at the opening reception.

Techspressionism is an art movement that merges technology with expressionism. It emphasizes the use of digital tools and techniques to create emotionally charged, subjective, and often abstract artworks. The term combines “technology” and “expressionism,” reflecting the movement’s focus on leveraging modern tech to convey deep emotional experiences and personal perspectives. The movement is guided by a core group of artists who meet online in monthly Salons to share their work and discuss ideas related to art and technology. It is also a widely used hashtag on social media, used on over 80k Instagram posts by artists worldwide since the formulation of the artist group in 2020.

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