Creative Science
Employing modes of scientific inquiry to advance creativity and storytelling
This Track is supported by the Simons Foundation.
How are practitioners working across art, culture, and science to advance storytelling, research, and creative ventures? This track supports artists, design studios, and creative practitioners employing modes of scientific inquiry to reveal or complicate the world around us. Members of this track have an expansive understanding of how science can be engaged in their practice: from preserving local agricultural traditions, mapping interspecies ecologies of care, creating new sustainable textiles or garments from renewable materials, or creating immersive media experiences that make visible phenomena much smaller or larger than the human scale. Members of this track show audiences how science shows up in our day-to-day lives.
Who Should Apply: We seek artists, business founders, creative or design studios, chefs, farmers, food scientists, healers, technologists, and researchers exploring speculative design, hybrid ecologies, biotechnology, robotics, food production systems, aquaculture, renewable energy, and other experimentation through the lens of scientific study or research-based 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 11-13, monthly track meetings, seasonal day-long intensives, monthly meetings with a dedicated mentor, and a handful of other touchpoints.
Benefits: Expert track mentorship, opportunities to present work in private and public settings including our annual Creative Science Dinner and DEMO festival.
Cost: $60/month subsidized by Simons Foundation with a required 12-month commitment.
MEMBER AND ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS
Ani Liu is an internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art & technoscience. Integrating emerging technologies with cultural reflection and social change, Ani’s most recent work examines the biopolitics of reproduction, labor, care work and motherhood.
Gal Nissim and Leslie Ruckman combine their unique backgrounds in art, science, research and design to create interactive, technology-enhanced works, often involving living organisms, that explore complex scientific themes. Research forms the foundation of their creative process. Their work invites participants to explore the dynamic relationships between nature, culture, and man-made environments raising questions about our ecological role as the planet’s dominant species.
Working under the moniker Fragmentario, María-Elena Pombo is an interdisciplinary artist with a research-based practice centered around participatory actions. She transforms and recontextualizes ubiquitous materials through conceptual installations, sculptures, videos, and performances that seek to dismantle hegemonic narratives and create alternative ones.
Header image credit: Ani Liu