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.
Schedule:
Program Part 1: 3-4:20pm
Break: 4:20-4:40pm
Program Part 2: 4:40pm
Closing Keynote with American Artist: 5:45pm-6pm
WATCH THE DEMO DAY LIVESTREAM:
Special thank you to videographer Iqral La Rode, stage designer Pablo Olguin, and graphic designer by Lizette Ayala.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
ART & CODE
Carrie Sijia Wang
Carrie Sijia Wang is a New York-based artist working with interactive experience, video, installation, and performance. She is interested in how systems, rules, and regulations affect cultures, beliefs, and rituals. The juxtaposition between the real and the fictional, the rational and the absurd, is a recurring theme in her work.
Roopa Vasudaven
Roopa Vasudevan is an American media artist, computer programmer, and researcher. Her work examines social and technological defaults, interrogates rules, conventions, and protocols that we often ignore or take for granted, and centers humanity and community in explorations of technology's impacts on culture and society.
Cassie Tarakajian
Cassie Tarakajian is an Armenian-American technologist, educator, and artist. Their work centers around creating accessible and inclusive tools for making art. They are also an adjunct professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU ITP), teaching creative coding, web development, and making memes.
COLLECTIVE ABUNDANCE
Eliza Evans
Eliza Evans experiments with sculpture, print, video, and textiles to identify disconnections and absurdities in social, economic, and ecological systems.
Laudi CoLab
Laudi CoLab is a practice founded by Gloria Lau and Daphne Lundi. Their work spans many disciplines, including urban planning, design, landscape architecture, textile manipulation, and illustration.
Johann Diedrick
Artist and engineer Johann Diedrick surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. Website
XR
Peter Burr
Peter Burr is an artist from Brooklyn specializing in animation and installation. Using computer animation to create images and environments that hover on the boundary between abstraction and figuration, Burr has in recent years devoted himself to exploring the concept of an endlessly mutating labyrinth.
Adelle Lin
Designer and Engineer Adelle Lin draws on personal experiences to develop projects that help connect people with themselves and the spaces they occupy. Whether it's building virtual worlds, playful installations, or fusing light with the body, Adelle creates work to make the unseen seen.
Brandon Powers
Brandon Powers is a creative director + choreographer who creates experiences across physical and virtual space. His work focuses on capturing liveness in the digital, building interdisciplinary communities, and shifting culture towards a more embodied future.
FUTURE MEMORY
R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O.
R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. (The Research Institute On Cannibal Opportunism & Repository Of Obsessive Bobo-lutionary Obsolescence) is a cultural production bureau specialized in scratching, remixing, and hacking the corporate and institutional consumption of Latin(x)(o)(a)(e)(+) narratives in the Americas (i.e., Bad BunnyⓇ).
Ariana Faye Allensworth
Ariana Faye Allensworth is a visual artist and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice builds upon interests in photography, spatial justice, and the politics of belonging.
Good Mirrors
Genel Ambrose is the founder of GOOD MIRRORS, a cultural institute and multidisciplinary studio committed to accurately reflecting Black women as whole and dignified beings. GOOD MIRRORS seeks to undo the harmful impact of racial and gender stigmas.
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.