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Bird x Bird ORIGINAL PROJECTS
LAND INVADERS
Modelled on the classic arcade game Space Invaders, this experimental 8-bit video game installation captures the nostalgic feel of classic gaming while imagining an alternate history: instead of fending off space aliens descending onto planet Earth, the players have to keep Columbus’s ships – the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria – from reaching the shores of Turtle Island.
ENCODED AT THE MET
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025, seventeen Indigenous artists from across North America installed their own exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, taking over the American Wing as it ended its centennial year. The exhibition was unsanctioned. The Met did not know it was coming. One of those pieces, Skoden Warriors, was produced and animated by Bird x Bird. In May of 2026, ENCODED was announced as a winner of two Webby Awards for Best Use of AR and Best Community Engagement.
BEAD BYTES
Adorned Futures: Fabric, Form, and Indigenous Resistance, opened in the Art and Design Gallery on February 25. The exhibition brings together resident artists from Ma’s House and BIPOC Art Studio Inc., Shinnecock Indian Nation artisans, and FIT students and faculty to explore contemporary art and design as expressions of cultural resistance, Indigenous futurism, and environmental storytelling. Rooted in the community-centered practices of Ma’s House, this exhibition features 60–70 works of wearable art, beadwork, performance, sculpture, painting, photography, and video. Together, these works honor Indigenous knowledge systems and position creativity as an act of sovereignty, resistance, and intergenerational exchange.
Botany of Nations
Co-curated with Enrique Salmón, PhD, an ethnobotanist and author of IWÍGARA: The Kinship of Plants and People, and developed with contributions from Indigenous cultural historians, Botany of Nations offers a culturally layered view of the plants of North America.
Collected on the famous expedition, some of the oldest plant specimens in the country today are housed in the Academy’s own Lewis and Clark Herbarium. Learn how the Native Nations Meriwether Lewis met on the trail shaped America’s plant knowledge long before Western scientists claimed these “discoveries.” Centering the voices of Native Nations who have protected and cared for the lands for thousands of years, Botany of Nations presents plants as portals to Indigenous storytelling and knowledge.