Media Diet, the First Immersive Documentary to Explore America’s Media Divide, to Debut at Ptown’s Twenty Summers on March 6th.
— Technology-Powered Art Installation Invites Participants Inside Peoples’ Media Rooms and Feeds —
PROVINCETOWN, MA (February 14, 2026) — Twenty Summers will premier Media Diet, the immersive documentary co-created by artists Amar Bakshi and Heidi Boisvert, at its Stanley Gallery in Provincetown. The first of its kind installation opens to the public on Friday, March 6th.
Media Diet invites visitors to step inside the recreated media worlds of real individuals whose media consumption habits have been synthesized by custom technology. The installation carefully replicates the physical environments — living rooms, bedrooms, home offices — in which people consume media so visitors can fully inhabit the filter bubbles of three Americans whom they will know only through their feeds.
“We are reconstructing strikingly different socio-political realities so visitors can better understand and, ideally reflect on, our singular collective reality of media division and growing polarization,” said Bakshi.
“Our hope is to build media literacy through an embodied experience,” noted Boisvert.”With Media Diet we are creating space for curiosity and empathy at a moment of deep media fragmentation.”
Step Into Three Media Worlds, Three Perspectives on the World
As visitors move through the Media Diet installation, they will encounter radically different versions of the same national stories, revealing how distinct media ecosystems can shape belief, emotion, and perception.
Each Media Diet tableau is based on an anonymous individual’s physical and virtual media world. Drawing from interviews, documentation, and reference materials provided by anonymous participants, the artists rebuild their “media rooms” and deploy a suite of technologies to curate their media feeds in real-time. The experience is designed to unfold like a documentary you move through, making visible the often-invisible forces that shape perception and belief, according to the artists.
After moving through the rooms, visitors will enter a shared conversation space designed for reflection and dialogue,
“Twenty Summers’ highest purpose is inspiring dialogue that creates positive change in the world,” said Mark Walsh, Chair of Twenty Summers Board of Directors. “We are thrilled that Media Diet is making its debut at our Stanley Gallery in Provincetown and especially thrilled to play a role in enhancing people’s understanding of the role our media habits play in shaping our perspective.”
Media Diet is created by Amar Bakshi, an artist and entrepreneur-in-residence at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication whose work explores media, technology, and connection across difference, and Heidi Boisvert, an interdisciplinary artist, experience designer and creative technologist whose work investigates how media and storytelling shape the body, behavior, and belief.
Media Diet opens at Stanley, 494 Commercial St. in Provincetown, on March 6, 2026. It runs through Friday, May 22nd, 2026.
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FAQ
Where is Stanley located? 494 Commercial St., Provincetown, MA 02657
What are the hours? Visit 20summers.org/stanley for hours and info.
How much are tickets to the Stanley events? Most events are free.
How do I get tickets? Gallery hours are free and open to the public, please go to 20summers.org for programming RSVPs