Description:
This presentation series is a program of NEW INC’s Science Sandbox-funded Creative Science Track, which explores scientific topics through art, speculative design, multispecies environments, technology, and more.
Presented in partnership with Serpentine’s Synthetic Ecologies Lab, this evening program invites the members of NEW INC’s Creative Science Track to present the ways their practice interacts with notions of ecology, nature, and embodiment. While Western culture distinguishes the natural world as external to humans, the speakers included in this program will tell stories that expand our perception of ecology: That the natural world consists of an entangled series of interactions and relationships that humans are a part of, not separate from. The practice of embodying, in this case, reveals the hidden ways we participate in our ecologies while also making visible the ways our environments change us, our bodies, and the perception of our surroundings.
The evening is anchored by a keynote by designer and researcher Yasaman Sheri, followed by presentations by our Creative Science track members Ani Liu, Gal Nissim & Leslie Ruckman, Jiabao Li, Jonah King & Sue Huang, Nocturnal Medicine, and Trash Club. Having worked closely with the artists on this track, Mentor-in-Residence Fiona Raby will act as a respondent for the evening.
This event is held in person by invitation only, but will be streamed live to NEW INC’s YouTube channel.
ASL interpretation will be provided in stream.
Click through to learn more about the presenters.
ABOUT NEW INC
NEW INC was cofounded by Lisa Phillips and Karen Wong in 2013 and is the first museum-led cultural incubator dedicated to supporting innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship across art, design, and technology. NEW INC’s Director is Salome Asega. For more information, visit newinc.org.
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 is 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 on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Event Partner:
SERPENTINE
Championing new ideas in contemporary art since 1970, the Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions for half a century from a wide range of emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists of our time. Across two sites only 5 minutes apart, in London’s Kensington Gardens, the Serpentine presents a year-round, free programme of exhibitions, architecture, education, live events and technological innovation, in the park and beyond.
ABOUT SERPENTINE SYNTHETIC ECOLOGIES LAB
Synthetic Ecologies Lab celebrates instruments, tools & platforms that support artistic practice in life sciences and zones of inquiry in contemporary biotechnology by prototyping creative outlooks and methodologies that inspire and support a new generation of artists. The lab works around non-static themes like fermentation, poetics of sensing and perception, aesthetics of new nature, simulated life, ecological art and microbial aesthetics. The projects bring together communities of interdisciplinary thinkers and practitioners to further pluralities and investigate paths less explored.
ABOUT SCIENCE SANDBOX
Science Sandbox is an initiative dedicated to inspiring a deeper interest in science, especially among those who don't think of themselves as science enthusiasts. We support and collaborate with programs that unlock scientific thinking.