Rip Space and Supercollider are pleased to announce Wake Me Up Inside, a hybrid exhibition and public program series opening June 5, 2026 at Wilshire Online in Los Angeles.
Bringing together works by Nat Decker, Devin Wilson, Ina Chen, Naomi Sam, Filip Kostic, American Artist, Wednesday Kim, and Lou Fauroux, the exhibition and program series moves between intimate relationships to personal devices and larger questions surrounding AI, networked identity, systems thinking, and computational culture.
The exhibition explores the psychic, cultural, and infrastructural conditions of life lived through platforms and computational systems. Borrowing its title from the chorus of Evanescence’s 2003 anthem “Bring Me to Life”; a song that resurged to top charts nearly two decades after its release. Wake Me Up Inside reflects on the return of a distinctly emotional register shaped by longing, dependency, alienation, and the desire to feel present again. The exhibition situates this resurgence within a contemporary condition in which everyday experience is increasingly mediated through systems that translate attention, human psychology, and social life into metrics, content, performance, and behavioral data. What once appeared as technologies of connection now structure emotional life itself.
Evolving from the utopian ideals of the early internet as spaces for openness, experimentation, and liberated exchange, online networks have evolved into infrastructures of extraction, behavioral capture, self-surveillance, and monetized attention. Logging on now often feels less like entering a communal space than returning to work or searching for a dopamine spike.At the same time, Wake Me Up Inside resists pure technological pessimism and speculative doom forecasting. The forthcoming public program series turns toward artists and technologists building alternative systems, local networks, autonomous infrastructures, and speculative post-web worlds. Responding to a growing desire for forms of collective technological life rooted in agency, exchange, and shared control over the systems we inhabit, the program asks what new social and cultural possibilities might emerge beyond the platform economy.
Curated by Vera Petukhova, with exhibition design by Naomi Sam
The exhibition and program series is a collaboration between Rip Space and Supercollider LA
Images (Top): Devin Wilson, ‘Overheating’, 2026; Nat Decker, ‘Spiral (noise)’, 2026; Wednesday Kim, ‘Spectral Sisters: echo’, ‘Spectral Sisters: Veil’, 2026
Images (Bottom): Naomi Sam, ‘Stations’, 2026; Lou Fauroux, ‘K-Detox, Hyperlink user’s assets ~x; Offline #004’, 2024; Ina Chen, ‘And Yet It Moves’, 2026
Documentation by Christopher Wormald
Applied Saturdays
Applied Saturdays operates as a program running adjacent to the exhibition Wake Me Up Inside, through a series of four hands-on, artist-led workshops that activate the exhibition space as a site of knowledge sharing and collective technical learning. While the exhibition holds the speculative and emotional resonance of networked systems, the workshops propose a counter narrative: to build, host, break, and reimagine the very infrastructures that produced this condition.
Each workshop responds to a concrete need: using existing hardware and e-waste to build devices for storing your own data without surrendering it to a platform; building communal apps and independent web ecosystems; reclaiming your personal archive from proprietary cloud servers; and protecting sensitive files from surveillance and exposure.
Offering a practical and politically orientated approach, Applied Saturdays asks what it means to act inside systems and to make digital sovereignty feel possible on both an individual and collective level.
Workshops offered by Alice Yuan Zhang/PLOT, Secret Server Club, T.A.P.E. Los Angeles, and Virginia Zangs and Maisa Imamović.
Visit the dedicated Applied Saturdays Webpage.
