Extended Realities
Expanding the artistic potential for technology to blur the physical and digital worlds
This Track has a partnership with Onassis ONX.
How can artists leverage emerging tools that are forming new audience relationships to technology to develop and inform the XR space? This track is interested in projects that apply the full compass of human imagination to explore aesthetic and technical opportunities for motion capture, virtual reality, augmented reality, the metaverse, immersive sound, and more. Members of this track are interested in the third space between our physical and digital worlds and leveraging the affordances of XR tools to create dynamic experiences.
Who Should Apply: We seek XR producers and studios, performers, choreographers, sound artists, filmmakers, creative technologists, game designers, motion capture experts, digital worldbuilders, and anyone else creating embodied experiences that immerse or transport audiences into rich stories.
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: This Track has priority access to Onassis ONX, an XR production studio and presentation space located in midtown Manhattan. Onassis ONX was co-founded by NEW INC and the Onassis Foundation in 2020. Expert track mentorship, opportunities to present work in private and public settings including our annual DEMO festival.
Cost: $150/month depending on membership tier 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
As an artist and technologist, JAZSALYN’s work begins where fiction and reality collide. Through new and computer-based media, she extends the practice of re-indigenization as a ritual to summon and recall ancestral intelligence. As the creative and founding director of BLACK BEYOND, an experimental art and design group, JAZSALYN designs art interventions to elevate fellow artists and define a new era for the black avant-garde.
LaJuné is a Multidisciplinary Artist, and Educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our current forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. LaJune believes in making by diving into, navigating, critiquing, and breaking systems and technologies that uphold systemic injustices to decommodify our bodies, undo our indoctrination, and make room for different ways of being.
Lisa Jamhoury is a Lebanese-American movement artist and programmer creating embodied, computational experiences. Through live productions, installations, and websites, her practice draws on contemporary circus and mindfulness as means to engage trauma and encourage a consensual, celebratory approach to humanity’s shared physicality. Lisa’s interactive performances choreograph the relationship between physical and virtual presence: minimal costumes and theatrics reveal the body’s natural grandeur, while wearable sensors allow the performers to drive digital stories through movement.
Header image credit: Lisa Jamhoury