Shabbat is supposed to create rest, dignity, memory, and belonging. But for many Jews, the lived experience of Shabbat also includes friction: Hebrew they cannot follow, rooms they cannot physically navigate, sensory overload, unspoken social rules, lack of confidence, and the quiet fear of doing it wrong. For some people, the barrier is physical. For [ ] The post Shabbat UX: Designing Jewish…
Walter Benjamin is not a household name. But he should be. In 1936, this German philosopher and cultural critic wrote an essay that predicted, with startling precision, almost everything that has happened to art since. He described what it would feel like when images became infinitely copyable. He anticipated the strange hollowness of standing in [ ] The post From Cult to Code: Tracing the History…
This is the working glossary for Jewish futurism, the terms, frameworks, and coined vocabulary that give the field its shape. Some entries are old words redirected toward new use, midbar, mesorah, aggadah. Others are new terms I ve coined outright, each one dated and marked as such. Every entry has its own anchor link. If you re [ ] The post The Jewish futurism Glossary of Terms appeared first on…
My working conversation about Jewish futurism Let me start by saying what Jewish futurism is not, at least for me. It is not putting a Star of David on a sleek sci-fi object and calling it a day. It is not “Jewish, but make it cyberpunk.” And it is definitely not about predicting the future [ ] The post The Jewish futurism Checklist appeared first on Mike Wirth art .
An Essay on ADHD, Flow, and Revelation Through Pattern Introduction: Where Neurodivergence Meets Jewish Futurism Neurodivergent people are often told our brains need fixing. Jewish tradition is often told it needs preserving, frozen in amber to survive. Both framings are wrong, and both miss the same truth: difference isn t deviation, it s design principle. I have [ ] The post Prophetic Sensation:…
Back in 2014, when I first started to create my Jewish futurist art and stories, I thought that my character, the Wanderer should live a few hundred years into the future, so my spiritual technology objects could just work as he travels through time to different Jewish moments in history. But not everything in the [ ] The post Liminal Space as Creative Method: Jewish futurism and the Multiverse of…
When I teach graphic design history at Queens University of Charlotte, we hit a point in the semester that always makes me a little uncomfortable, because I know it s coming before the students do. We re talking about Italian Futurism, those bold typographic posters, a visionary sounding manifesto bursting with energy, those declarations about speed and [ ] The post What Went Wrong with Italian…
Experimenting with AI tools is one of my favorite parts of my practice, and this particular video generator turned out to be a very cool collaborator. It is not 100 percent accurate, but it gets surprisingly close, and that “almost right” quality ended up becoming part of the interest for me. NotebookLM is a Google [ ] The post Jewish Futurist Experiment: Using NotebookLM’s Video Explainer…
Vitebsk, a small, mostly Jewish city in the old Pale of Settlement, is remembered in the art books as a birthplace of the Russian avant‑garde, but almost never as a place where Jews were actively prototyping their own futures (Vitebsk; “In the Beginning”). In the years 1918 to 1922, if you set Vitebsk next to [ ] The post UNOVIS School: Proto-Jewish futurism in Vitebsk, 1918 appeared first on Mike…
During my semester long sabbatical, I set out to experiment with new ways to tell Jewish stories, and I kept coming back to the immersive feeling of games. While I stayed focused on my main objective, completing my book Hiddur Olam: Bereshit – Genesis and telling new Jewish stories through art and writing, this Hanukkah, I also [ ] The post Vibe Coding for 8 Crazy Nights appeared first on Mike…