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■ Founded in 2025 by Erika R. Knierim, Andrew Goldstein, Vlad Avesalon, and Megan Trogilio, TECHNĒ Chicago is an ongoing symposium series and platform at the intersection of contemporary art, emerging technology, and cultural institutions. Rooted in the belief that interpretability is essential to both innovation and stewardship, TECHNĒ builds spaces where complex systems can be examined, debated, and made newly legible in public.​

Each edition takes a different technology—AI, quantum computing, robotics—as a case study in how culture, infrastructure, and imagination co‑produce the futures we will have to inhabit.