When artist Liat Berdugo moved to the Bay Area after finishing her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design, she sought out a community engaged in her interests: arts and technology. She tried Meetup gatherings, but, she found, “It was a lot of dudes talking about how many projectors they could get mapped onto one sculpture.” Disappointed by the lack of critical discourse, in 2013 she co-founded Living Room Light Exchange (LRLE), a new media art salon, with fellow artist Elia Vargas.