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Saturday, April 18th

Curator's Walk-Thru: 4 pm

Tom Leeser in discussion with Maisa Imamović: 5 pm

Phase Gallery invites you to join us on Saturday, April 18th, 2026, at 4 pm for a Curator’s Walk-Thru with Tom Leeser.  

He will discuss the work in the exhibit and looks forward to entertaining comments and questions from everyone in attendance. 

Following the Walk-Thru at 5 pm, we invite you to join us for a talk between Tom Leeser and artist and author, Maisa Imamović. Tom and Maisa will be discussing the links between the exhibit and Maisa’s new book, “Maisa in Webland.” 

Maisa authors “a philosophical and practice-based crusade through the Internet’s surface and its shadows.” They ask, “Can a non-extractive internet exist beyond metaphor?” 

Address:

PHASE Gallery
1718 Albion Street
Los Angeles, CA 90031

info@phasegallery.com

T: 310-892-1985

Tom Leeser is a digital media artist, educator, curator, and writer. He is the Program Director of the Art and Technology Program in the School of Art and the Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. Working primarily in digital video, photography, text, and installation, Tom Leeser and the Provisional Collective focus on the gap between collective memory and individual perception. Tom’s creative practice also includes soundtracks and sonic compositions that feature manipulated field recordings from the natural, industrial, and imaginary worlds that we inhabit,  often in tension between what is seen and what is unseen. Tom is also an editor and producer with the web-based journal and curatorial project, viralnet-v4.net.

His text accompanying the exhibition can be found on our website: The Ghost in the Logos: Fragmentation and Inscriptions in e / Crit –s

Maisa Imamović is a writer, web designer/developer, and experimental educator. She critically studies the role of the single user and user behaviors generated by code. She codes to challenge the ideology of user-friendliness, support cultural platforms, respond to political gems, and socialize. Text + Code are her main mediums. In 2022, her first book The Psychology of the Web Developer, Reality of a Female Freelancer was published by the Institute of Network Cultures. In the academic year of 2024-2025, she taught creative coding and the history of cyberfeminism as an adjunct professor at USC Media Arts Practice, UCLA Design Media Arts, ArtCenter Interaction Design, CalArts Critical Studies and Integrated Media. She holds an MA degree in Aesthetics & Politics from the California Institute of the Arts. In 2025, her second book entitled Maisa in Webland: Detouring UX Destinies was published by Set Margins. She is ⅓ of Rip Space — media arts project platform exploring emergent paradigms. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Media Arts + Practice at the University of Southern California.