Angeline Meitzler, Josèfa Ntjam, Natalie Paneng, Rebeca Romero, Kinari Saraiya, Skawennati and Wendi Yan
17 SEP 2026, 6:30PM | OPENING
18 SEP 2026–17 JAN 2027, WED–SUN 12-6PM | ON VIEW
Curated by Pita Arreola
Part of the 2026/28 programme REBOOT: Recoding Reality
[Tracing ancestral knowledge into future worlds]
SLIPSTREAM: Uncharted Realities & the Eternal Now is a group exhibition at arebyte Digital Art Centre, London, bringing together seven artists who explore their cultural heritage as a lens for imagining alternative technological futures.
Presenting pieces by Angeline Meitzler, Josèfa Ntjam, Rebeca Romero, Kinnari Saraiya, Skawennati, Natalie Paneng and Wendi Yan, the exhibition moves between multiverses and speculative histories across two rooms: spanning video, sculpture, textile and interactive installation, each bringing different understandings of knowledge, time and technology into dialogue.
The exhibition takes its title from Grace L. Dillon’s Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012), which recontextualises the sci-fi concept of ‘slipstream’ through Indigenous storytelling. For Dillon, slipstream offers a nonlinear way of thinking about time and space, where pasts, presents and futures flow together like currents in a navigable stream. It allows ancestral knowledge and histories to be recovered and brought into the present to imagine different futures.
The seven contributors to SLIPSTREAM examine tradition critically and with rigour, bringing nuanced perspectives to their experiments with Indigenous futurisms. Sitting alongside movements such as Afrofuturism and Sinofuturism, they each create estranged worlds of the future that foreground the intersection of race, technology and power.
Opening Event
Thu 17 Sep 2026 | 6:30pm
Exhibition Tours
Led by curator Pita Arreola
Thu 8 Oct 2026 | 7pm
Sat 28 Nov 2026 | 3pm
Performances + Panel
Performances and talks by artists
Sat 14 Nov 2026 | time TBC
Online Artist Talk
Online Event
Wed 9 Dec 2026 | time TBC
Exhibition Booklet
EXHIBITION CREDITS
Artists Angeline Meitzler, Josèfa Ntjam, Natalie Paneng, Rebeca Romero, Kinari Saraiya, Skawennati, Wendi Yan
Curator Pita Arreola
Exhibition Designer & Producer Luke Turk
Technical Manager Hanke Vollmer
Technicians Billy Stanley, Dmitry Timofeev, Eryn English-Polch, Joe Chalmers
Time-Based Media Specialist Blanca Regina
Fabricator Ricardo Cartaxo Monteiro
Graphic Designer Camilla Does
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ARTISTS BIO
Angeline Meitzler is an artist, writer and experimental animator currently based in Berkeley, California. Her work utilizes fiction, cinema, history and natural phenomenon to engage with the complexities of cultural value.To place an image next to text, you can use simple HTML/CSS or a content editor layout. Below are three clear approaches — choose the one that matches your environment.
Josèfa Ntjam is an artist, performer, and writer whose practice combines sculpture, photomontage, film, and sound. Gathering the raw material for her work from the Internet, natural science books, and photographic archives, Ntjam employs the method of assemblage—of images, words, sounds, and stories—to deconstruct hegemonic discourses on notions of origin, identity, and race.
Natalie Paneng is a Johannesburg-based transmedia artist. Paneng’s work and research are centred around natural phenomena, indigenous technologies, and the act of creating playful speculative methodologies we can relate to. She is interested in developing accessible metaphors for complex systems, often drawing connections to quantum physics, digital mysticism, and the sense of wonder that emerges from these fields.
Rebeca Romero is a London-based artist working across sculpture, installation, and moving image. Her work engages with Indigenous American material cultures to explore how people make sense of the world, and their place within it, through objects, rituals, and stories. Using contemporary digital technologies alongside traditional sculptural processes, she creates speculative artefacts that chart alternative worlds, opening up new ways of seeing the past and imagining the future.
Kinari Saraiya is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer and curator based in London. Her practice spans interactive installation, film, performance, sound and custom-built interfaces, drawing on South Asian embodied knowledge, colonial archives and speculative worldbuilding to explore how technology, memory and choreography can produce counter-archives and alternative temporalities.
Skawennati is an internationally exhibiting artist who has spent this millennium imagining utopic futures. From her dual perspectives as an urban Mohawk woman and a cyberpunk avatar, she creates speculative fiction machinima, costumes and quilts, among other things. Her practice is gradually coalescing into an alternate universe.
Wendi Yan constructs speculative epistemologies through research-driven worldbuilding and metafictional simulation, using CGI technology, game engines and sculpture to probe the artifice of knowledge. She collaborates with scientists to explore the frontier between imaging and imagining. Yan was an inaugural Steve Jobs Archive Fellow and the Grand Prix recipient of the 6th VH Award.
CURATOR BIO
Pita Arreola is Head of Programmes at arebyte, leading the organisation’s artistic programme. With fifteen years of experience in the arts, she has worked closely with creatives to develop experimental projects that critically examine the social and cultural impact of emerging technologies. Based in London, she is also the Co-Founder of Off Site Project, a curatorial platform supporting new media talent. From 2021 to 2024 she served as Curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is co-editor of Digital Art: 1960s–Now (V&A, Thames & Hudson, 2024), a book tracing the histories and evolution of digital arts.
