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An ultra-funky song cabinet is just one of several pieces of high tech artwork on display at 92YTribeca’s second annual GeekDown, and none of it’s about to pop up in Pottery Barn or Crate & Barrel.

“The kind of vision of GeekDown is thinking about new technology specific to computers and digital technology and how does that really meet and combine with creative self-expression. There are sound installations, there's video art, lots of different things happening in this space,” says Aaron Miller of 92YTribeca.

Among the sound installations is “Tape Translation,” which allows users to manipulate the playback of those old analog cassette tapes, thereby reminding people as to how the endangered species of media works.

“Illumination” illustrates how computers can be creative with little to no human interaction. Put any text from a book, newspaper and so forth under a camera connected to the unit and a behind-the-scenes computer highlights words in order to create poetry out of what it sees.

“We feed it thousands of poems and novels and all sorts of text, and from those it's able to learn ‘okay, what is the structure of poetry and how can I now take this new text you're giving me and try to create a similar structure?’” says Jack Kalish, the artist behind “Illumination.”

There’s also a room filled entirely with wearable high tech art.

“It's an emerging field of sort of expression, I guess, because you can take normal garments and add all sorts of stuff to them and re-appropriate old types of technology, put them to a new use, take them apart and build something totally new that's stylish,” says Winslow Porter, curator of Geekdown.

The exhibit runs through September 9. For a virtual look at the installations, visit GeekDown.com.