This week in NYC art + tech Oct 12–18, 2026
What closes, where to be and what was published, in New York. Every line comes from the organizer’s or arXiv’s own page.
The next 14 days: deadlines above the line, one dot per event below
Closing soon
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5 days left
State of the Arts Fellowship, year 2
New York State Council on the Arts
“Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 5:00pm.”
On view now 4
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Jennifer & Kevin McCoy: ReLensing
Until 17 Oct, bitforms gallery
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PLAZA
Until 25 Oct, Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center Immersive), Josie Robertson Plaza
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LaJuné McMillian: Child/ren of the Bloom
Until 20 Dec, Pioneer Works
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Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body
Until 3 Jan, Museum of the Moving Image
New papers 8
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Moving Beyond the Flat Screen: Opportunities and Challenges of Extended Reality for Studying Human Brain and Behavior
Tom Bullock and 5 more, 13 Oct, arXiv 2610.19199
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Feed-Forward Multi-View Feature Coding for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Seungmi Choi and 4 more, 14 Oct, arXiv 2610.20590
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Where Should the Gaussians Go? Reusable Label-Aware Allocation for Budget-Constrained Gaussian Splatting of Cinematic CT
Bowen Xiang and 3 more, 14 Oct, arXiv 2610.20397
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PAWA: Panoramic Action-conditioned World Modeling for Multiple Agents
Siqi Yang and 8 more, 14 Oct, arXiv 2610.20240
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ShadAR: Real-time Prompting On-demand Visual Augmentation in Augmented Reality
Yanni Mei and 4 more, 14 Oct, arXiv 2610.19998
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VisibilitySplat: Ray-Traced Occlusion for Relighting with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Sven Kluge and 1 more, 14 Oct, arXiv 2610.19847
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What Matters for World Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models?
Qisen Ma and 12 more, 14 Oct, arXiv 2610.19825
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StateCraft: Augmenting Video World Models with Abstract-State Reasoning
Lorenzo Venturoli and 4 more, 14 Oct, arXiv 2610.19795
Events in New York 26
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NYC Invisible Interfaces: Notion x Design Meetup
6 pm, Design Meetup
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Van Alen Fall Fest 2026
12 pm, Van Alen Institute
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Halloween Comedy Show | Harlem's In Living Color
8 pm, Luma, New York
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Curator-Led Dialogue: Eriola Pira with Angela Ferraiolo, Michael Candy, and Testu Collective
Harvestworks
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new interfaces 007
1 pm, new interfaces, Verci Flatiron
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First Light:AAPI Film Festival
3 pm, Luma, New York, telos.haus
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The Architectural Anarchive: Reimagining the Design Archive
6 pm, Van Alen Institute
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Cycol Gallery, Wait And Hope Foundation, and One Love Art Present: Monochrome
20–23 Oct, Luma, New York, Cycol Gallery
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Figma agent: Builder night (Tuesday, October 20)
6 pm, Design Meetup, Figma NYC
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NEW INC Workshare
6 pm, New Museum
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Figma agent: Builder night (Wednesday, October 21)
6 pm, Design Meetup, Figma NYC
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Design Meetup x Medal
6 pm, Design Meetup
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Exhibition Walkthrough of "by Alison Knowles" at the Grey Art Museum
6 pm, NYU Events
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NYVR - October 2026, Art in VR
6 pm, NYVR, Virtual Reality NYC
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Figma agent: Builder night (Thursday, October 22)
6 pm, Design Meetup, Figma NYC
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The Accidental Archive: A Community Workshop with Divya Mehra
6 pm, Van Alen Institute
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MUGIC user meeting
6 pm, Harvestworks
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Afterimage: Figma for Edu community showcase
6 pm, Design Meetup, ARTECHOUSE NYC
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Fall Saturdays
Pioneer Works
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Liturgy
8 pm, ISSUE Project Room
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Future Reality AI Film Festival (NYC)-Film × Advertising × Creative Technology Screenings · Awards · Industry Leaders Networking
6 pm, Harvard XR, Village East by Angelika
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A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa
5 pm, NYU Events
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Book Launch: At the Edge of Where God Built
6 pm, Van Alen Institute
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Launching Perspecta 57: Archival Ferment
6 pm, Van Alen Institute
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Papers We Love NYC | Learning Rules: What can math tell us about language
6:30 pm, Papers We Love NYC, Mindspace Williamsburg
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An Archival Séance: The Critical Record with Marina Otero Verzier
6 pm, Van Alen Institute
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Dates and fees change: confirm on the organizer’s page before you apply or go. Picked by The IMC Lab; nothing here is an endorsement.