NEWSLETTER
Featuring work by Steve Pikelny, Godmin, Ursula Endlicher, and Chia Amisola that explore ideas such as spam, sensors, and HTML gardens
July 2, 2026–July 25, 2027
Astoria, NY (July 6, 2026) — Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) has launched Site Interruptions, a new series of artist commissions unfolding across MoMI’s homepage, movingimage.org, and unexpected locations in the Museum’s building. The yearlong series opened July 2, 2026 and continues through July 25, 2027, and will feature four artists: Steve Pikelny, Godmin, Ursula Edlicher, and Chia Amisola.
Since the advent of the web browser, artists have recognized the website as a medium for artistic production, treating the architecture that determines how a page is built and navigated as part of the work itself. Building on MoMI’s multi-decade history of presenting web-based projects, Site Interruptions marks a renewed commitment to commissioning work for online contexts.
As online systems and behavior increasingly organize everyday life beyond the screen, the series reflects the symbiosis between networked experience and the onsite spaces where social and cultural life is felt offline. Each project in Site Interruptions unfolds in two interdependent forms: a work on MoMI’s homepage and a corresponding installation onsite. Works on the homepage alter the visitor’s encounter within the website, while the in-person installation appears in an unlikely space, inviting visitors to seek it out within the building.
The Museum will present four commissions over the course of a year, with artists exploring such ideas as spam, sensors, unidentified filming objects, and HTML trees, creating new encounters within the museum and the website as its extension.
Site Interruptions is organized by Regina Harsanyi, Associate Curator of Media Arts, and presented with support from Raster Eyes.
SCHEDULE FOR ‘SITE INTERRUPTIONS’:
Steve Pikelny
July 2–October 4, 2026
Godmin
October 8, 2026–January 10, 2027
Ursula Endlicher
January 14–April 18, 2027
Chia Amisola
April 22–July 25, 2027
ON VIEW JULY 2–OCTOBER 4:
Steve Pikelny (b. 1989, United States)
MoMI Upgrade Activation, 2026
JavaScript, HTML/CSS, webpage with sound
Steve Pikelny is an artist and engineer who builds websites that should not be trusted. Drawing on the visual language of the earlier web, his projects borrow from pop-up windows, deceptive advertisements, fake news, pyramid schemes, and other dubious online ventures.
For Site Interruptions, Pikelny turns the Museum’s website into something between a browser hijacker and a clicker game. Visitors who choose to “upgrade” the site pass through warnings, nerve-racking prompts, and prolonged loading bars before arriving at “MoMI 2.0.” An activation code can be generated online, but visitors to MoMI will be given special access to an alternative sequence.
About Museum of the Moving Image
MoMI celebrates the history, art, technology, and future of the moving image in all of its forms. Located in Astoria, New York, the Museum presents exhibitions; screenings; discussion programs featuring actors, directors, and creative leaders; and education programs. It houses the nation’s most comprehensive collection of moving image artifacts and screens over 500 films annually. Its exhibitions—including the core exhibition Behind the Screen and The Jim Henson Exhibition—are noted for their integration of material objects, interactive experiences, and audiovisual presentations. For more information about MoMI, visit movingimage.org.
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Image: Screen grab of MoMI Site Interruption Activation, 2026. Steve Pikelny / Courtesy of the artist