A-GEN-C
Helen Starr and Nimrod Vardi of A-GEN-C are delighted to launch a new publishing house from their Central London showspace. The showcase of interactive artworks offers a first look at a new model for publishing and circulating art.
COCKTAILS
6–8 PM
24 SEPTEMBER 2026
LOCATION
Lisson Grove Studios
London NW8 8FT
Public opening Friday & Saturday, 12–6pm
or by appointment
A-GEN-C
A-GEN-C commissions, publishes, archives and circulates visual novels, playable cinema, interactive literature and non-traditional animation. Rather than functioning as a conventional gallery, A-GEN-C develops long-term cultural infrastructure for emerging artistic forms — creating ways for interactive artworks to be editioned, collected, distributed and experienced beyond the exhibit.
Made from paper and digital technologies, these interactive novels bring histories, possible futures and dreams into the present. They locate the human within multiple temporalities at once. The interactive novel becomes a space/time-travel tool, allowing pasts, possible futures and imagined worlds to be embodied in the present.
This Art & Technology presentation brings together interactive graphic novels by Anna Bunting-Branch, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Kinnari Saraiya, accompanied by bespoke ceramic controllers created by Aliyah Hussain.
FOUR NEW INTERACTIVE COMMISSIONS
Botanical Interface Vessels (2026)
Aliyah’s Botanical Interface Vessels (2026) are handheld ceramic controllers carrying histories of colonial extraction, extinction and ancestral memory. Their wildflower-ash glazes are read as colour codes by computer vision and symbolically through human touch, becoming physical interfaces between bodies and digital worlds.
The Eyes Under the Sky (2026)
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley creates immersive digital works centring Black Trans experiences. The Eyes Under the Sky (2026), the first in a series of interactive graphic novels, follows lovers Anansi and Loa through a futuristic desert city where weather-controlling machines are weaponised against the worshipping inhabitants.
Dose Makes the Poison (2025)
Anna often merges traditional and digital media to explore feminist science fiction. Dose Makes the Poison (2025) reimagines Silphium, a highly prized medicinal plant from ancient Cyrene often described as the first victim of economic extinction, as a survivor who persists through memory, myth and transformation.
In the Eye of a Dream (2026)
Kinnari explores cultural identity and globalisation through film, games, performance and tech. In the Eye of a Dream (2026) is an artist’s book combining film, NFC-embedded embroidery and archival materials, transforming a colonial archive of dreams into an exploration of many worlds and the pluriverse.
ALSO ON 24 SEPTEMBER
We are delighted to be launching on the same date and at the same time as our friends at The Showroom, who will be presenting a new interactive commission and exhibition by Bahar Noorizadeh.
