Art & Code
in partnership with Rhizome
Redefining cultural and digital landscapes through artist-led research and projects
This Track has a partnership with Rhizome.
How are creative practitioners pushing forward computational techniques for artmaking, art presentation, distribution, and digital preservation? This track is offered in partnership with Rhizome and focuses on experimentation and collaboration between artists, researchers, engineers, and technologists, where members benefit from specialized mentorship opportunities and events.
Who Should Apply: We seek artists, creative technologists, game designers, digital preservation researchers, interaction designers, sound artists and musicians, and others making and researching born-digital art to apply to be a part of this track. Track members in this cohort work in a variety of media, with a special emphasis on artistic practice.
Expectations: Commit to participation in NEW INC’s full year-long program, Sept 2024-August 2025, which includes required orientation and a multi-day onboarding experience September 12-14, monthly track meetings which are scheduled during M-F, 10am-6pm ET, seasonal day-long intensives, monthly meetings with a dedicated mentor, and a handful of other touchpoints.
Benefits: Expert track mentorship, participation in special events with the NEW INC and Rhizome community, and opportunity to present at our annual DEMO festival.
Cost: $150/month with a required 12-month commitment. Limited subsidies are available, based on financial need, for Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, trans, nonbinary, and people with disabilities. The subsidized rate is $60/month.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Mindy Seu is a designer and technologist based in New York City. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, design commissions, sharing—typically in the form of lists and spreadsheets—and close collaborations. Her latest writing surveys historical precursors of the metaverse and reveals the materiality of the internet. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index, which gathers three decades of online activism and net art, was commissioned by Rhizome and presented at the New Museum in its online form, and its print form is a recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant.
Sarah Rothberg is an interactive media artist who captures the interplay between technology, systems, and the personal, creating meaning through unique and idiosyncratic experiences that encourage new ways of thinking, understanding, and communicating. Sarah's work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Sotheby's S2 gallery, MUTEK festival, Miami Art Week, and bitforms gallery. She teaches new media at NYU's Interactive Media Arts and Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch.
Or Zubalsky is an artist, educator, and parent based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). They work in video and performance, using software paradigms and tools to process relationships between memory and trauma. Zubalsky's projects restructure personal and collective histories as acts of protest and healing. Their work unpacks the ways systemic harms manifest on a personal level and uses digital technology to document, reframe, and process the entanglements of settler colonialism, trauma, and gender.
Header image credit: Yehwan Song