Mike Wirth art

Shabbat is supposed to create rest, dignity, memory, and belonging.

Walter Benjamin is not a household name.

This is the working glossary for Jewish futurism, the terms, frameworks, and coined vocabulary that give the field its shape.

My working conversation about Jewish futurism Let me start by saying what Jewish futurism is not, at least for me.

An Essay on ADHD, Flow, and Revelation Through Pattern Introduction: Where Neurodivergence Meets Jewish Futurism Neurodivergent people are often told our brains need fixing.

Back in 2014, when I first started to name 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 di…

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.

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.

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”).

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.