DEMO DAY
Saturday, May 7
3pm-6pm ET
Description:
Demo Day is NEW INC’s annual showcase previewing the exciting creative projects and enterprises developed during the year. Sponsored by Meta Open Arts, this year’s event features twelve presentations from NEW INC’s Year 8 members, and will explore topics ranging from cursed Internet aesthetics and immersive virtual design to community-oriented creative practice and radical collective economics. Now in its eighth year, Demo Day continues its tradition of introducing cutting-edge thinking to an audience of funders, creative directors, curators, and industry leaders.
Watch the Demo Day presentations on Saturday, May 7 from 3:00–6:00 p.m. via livestream. Featuring NEW INC members from the Art and Code track (partnered with Rhizome): Roopa Vasudevan, Cassie Tarakajian, Carrie Sijia Wang, the Collective Abundance track: Johann Diedrick, Eliza Evans, Laudi CoLab; the Future Memory track: R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O., Good Mirrors, Ariana Faye Allensworth, and the Extended Realities track: Peter Burr, Brandon Powers, Adelle Lin. The afternoon will close with a keynote from a special guest witness of the day.
Project presentations will run from 3-6pm (split in two parts with a half hour break). ASL interpretation will be provided on site by ASL Interpreting services provided by Body Language Productions. Demo Day is an invite-only but we invite the public to watch live online.
This year’s Demo Day is sponsored by Meta Open Arts, and will announce the 10 recipients of the inaugural $10,000 Next Web Seed Grant. The awarded projects push forward arts-driven research on the potentials and models for a decentralized internet. Learn more about NEW INC's partnership with Meta.
About NEW INC
As the first museum-led cultural incubator, NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform for furthering the New Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Now in Year 8, NEW INC’s membership model continues to support a diverse range of creative practitioners with a values-driven program and safe space for gathering and developing new creative projects and businesses. In 2020, NEW INC launched ONX Studio, an XR accelerator for artists, in partnership with the Onassis Foundation. NEW INC was cofounded by New Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Director, Lisa Phillips, and former Deputy Director, Karen Wong, in 2014.
About New Museum
The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum was conceived as a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding building, designed by the 2010 Pritzker Prize Laureates, SANAA, on the Bowery in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a hub of new art and new ideas, and is a place of ongoing experimentation about what art and arts institutions can be in the twenty-first century.
About Meta Open Arts
Meta Open Arts’ Mission: Creativity is our common language; it enables us to transcend boundaries and celebrate our differences. As a company dedicated to bringing people closer together, Meta recognizes that creativity is essential to our collective well-being. Within our walls and around the globe, Open Arts cultivates creative engagements that offer new ways of thinking about ourselves, our communities, and the world at large. Open Arts is organized as 5 global areas of focus: Commissions, Design, Experiences, Partnerships, and Strategy & Operations.