The Second-Guess is a curatorial collective founded by Anika Meier and Margaret Murphy. Based in Berlin and Los Angeles, they collaborate with artists, curators, institutions, platforms, and galleries to exhibit and discuss digital art that explores the relationship between humans and technology—with a strong focus on female and non-binary artists.
The Second-Guess is powered by the Tezos Foundation.
With support from objkt.
Collaborators include, among others, Numéro Berlin, Fräulein, and The AI Art Magazine.
CURATED ARTISTS
Kevin Abosch
Julia Albrecht
allapopp
Mika Ben Amar
Gretchen Andrew
LaTurbo Avedon
Connie Bakshi
Marine Bléhaut
Terence Broad
Nancy Burson
Ana María Caballero
Sougwen Chung
Crosslucid
Dancevatar
Boris Eldagsen
Anna Ehrenstein
exonemo
Monika Fleischmann
Flynn by Malpractice
Sarah Friend
Carla Gannis
Alice Gordon
Claudia Hart
kennedy + swan
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Ann Hirsch
Gretta Louw
Mario Klingemann
Emi Kusano
Element Lee
Jess Mac
Maya Man
Martina Menegon
Margaret Murphy
Kika Nicolela
OONA
Operator
Jurgen Ostarhild
Franziska Ostermann
Nicole Ruggiero
Salawaki
SOFF
Leah Schrager
Sasha Stiles
Tabitha Swanson
Elisabeth Sweet
Ivona Tau
Tamiko Thiel
Jess Tucker
Mike Tyka
UBERMORGEN
Addie Wagenknecht
VNS Matrix
Kira Xonorika
David Young
CURATORS
Anika Meier is a writer and curator specializing in internet culture and digital art. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and teaches at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Class of UBERMORGEN, Department of Digital Art). She is the co-founder of The Second-Guess, a curatorial collective based in Berlin and Los Angeles that explores the relationship between humans and technology. She was a fellow at the German Center for Art History in Paris and the German Literature Archive Marbach, and a Junior Visiting Fellow in London at the Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.
She has written columns for Monopol and Kunstforum and collaborated with CIRCA on Marina Abramović’s first NFT drop. She was a member of the curatorial board of Art Blocks, served on the advisory board of Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel, and built EXPANDED.ART. Her projects and advisory work include Fondation Beyeler Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Musée d’Orsay Paris, Suhrkamp Verlag, and the Herbert W. Franke Foundation. She has spoken at international conferences and events such as Art Basel, re:publica, and Ars Electronica.
In 2022, she collaborated with Operator to create UNSIGNED, a collection of 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists aimed at reversing the current negative value of signatures by transforming them into artworks themselves.
Her most recent curated exhibitions include The Second-Guess. Body Anxiety in the Age of AI at HeK Basel (Virtual), LeeMullican.PCX at FeralFile, Who Is Online? Game Art in the Age of Post-NFTism at HEK Basel (Virtual), Art NFT Linz at Francisco Carolinum in Linz, and Tribute to Herbert W. Franke (co-curated with Susanne Päch). She has published books on art after social media and on feminism in the age of the internet. Her exhibitions have been written about, and her writing has been published in, among others, artnet, Hyperallergic, The Washington Post, Forbes, Monopol, Kunstforum, Spiegel, Tagesschau, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Right Click Save.
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Margaret Murphy is a Los Angeles–based artist, writer, and curator with an MFA from the University of Hartford’s Limited Residency Program in Photography (2021).
Murphy’s artistic practice employs photography, collage, and AI to investigate nostalgia, femininity, and identity within the realms of the internet, social media, and technology. Her work—often incorporating meme humor and themes of collective memory—has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC; released as NFTs through QuantumArt, Heft, and EXPANDED.ART; and featured in Monopol, Der Greif, and EXPANDED.ART Magazine. She has also photographed for The New York Times.