DEMO2023

The New Museum’s cultural incubator NEW INC today announced the full schedule for DEMO2023, a new, three-day festival presenting exhibitions, installations, performances, and talks by industry leaders and NEW INC members at the New Museum and partner venues across New York City. Running from June 21 to June 23, 2023, DEMO2023 will feature speakers and performers including Anicka Yi, Dong-Ping Wong, Hassan Rahim, WangShui, Embaci with Studio Junbi and Christelle de Castro, Onyx Collective, M Lamar, Eileen Isagon Skyers, and Yemi Amu, and will spotlight innovative projects from twenty-five current NEW INC members, whose interdisciplinary work spans art, design, technology, science, and entrepreneurship. The complete schedule is now available at demo2023.org. 

Expanding on the concept of a “demo day,” a term borrowed from the private sector referring to the day when incubator members demonstrate their projects to potential backers, NEW INC inaugurated its Demo Day in 2016 to showcase member projects before an invite-only audience of creative directors, investors, curators, and other industry leaders. DEMO2023 opens this process to the public and offers an extended look into the development of the next generation of creative design, technology, science, and social projects incubated at NEW INC.  

Founded in 2014 as the first museum-led cultural incubator, NEW INC supports a cohort of approximately sixty creative practitioners each year with a values-driven program including professional development, mentorship, and community-building opportunities. The Year 9 members include participants in five tracks: Art & Code, considering the future of Internet based art in collaboration with Rhizome; Collective Abundance, reconstructing social and public space through design and architecture; Creative Science, exploring modes of scientific inquiry to advance creativity and storytelling; Extended Realities, examining the artistic potentials for technology to blur the physical and digital worlds; and Future Memory, shaking up dominant historical narratives and re-defining the power communities hold. For more information about all NEW INC Y9 members, please visit newinc.org/members. 

At the New Museum, DEMO will feature presentations from NEW INC members including:

Art & Code: Jackie Liu, Jason Choi, and Or Zubalsky

Collective Abundance: Ana Bessie Ratner, MICROPOLITAN STUDIO (Delara Rahim, Francisco Brown, Jimmy Pan), Amina Hassen, Cara Michell, and Lafayette Cruise

Creative Science: Anastasiia Raina, Aroussiak Gabrielian, Dakota Gearhart, Parsons & Charlesworth (Jessica Charlesworth, Tim Parsons), The Flint Collective NYC (Leela Shanker), Fragmentario (Maria-Elena Pombo), Trash Club (Morgan Mueller), and Russell Ladson

Extended Realities: JAZSALYN, LaJuné McMillian, Ami Mehta, Lisa Jamhoury, and Don.xyz (Don Hanson)

Future Memory: Morehshin Allahyari, Decoding Stigma, Martina Abraham Ilunga, Mipsterz (Yusuf Siddiquee, Abbas Rattani, Shimul Chowdhury), and Shrimp Zine (Andreas Laszlo Konrath) 

In addition to these individual presentations, each track will be featured in an offsite showcase at a partner venue, including:

Art & Code Showcase: This group exhibition organized in partnership with Rhizome will feature video works, interactive media, and performances at Dunkunsthalle, a former Dunkin’ Donuts storefront recently converted to an art gallery by artist and NEW INC alumnae Rachel Rossin, on view from June 16–25

Collective Abundance Showcase: Shedding light on the often opaque forces that shape the built environment, this intervention at La MaMa Galleria from June 21–July 2 will give physical shape to members’ projects through models, maquettes, and paper architecture, with fabrication support provided by Worthless Studios

Creative Science Showcase: This public art exhibition on the Heineken Riverdeck at the Seaport on the East River features outdoor sculptures, augmented reality videos, a lighting installation, and expanded science/fictional works on view from June 16–July 2     

Extended Realities Showcase: Performances and digital artworks organized in partnership with EY Metaverse Lab will explore new possibilities for XR, including user generated game worlds, live motion capture enabled performances, immersive sound experiences, and virtual reality films presented at ONX Studio from June 20–25     

Future Memory Showcase: At the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) on June 21, a one night only “flash everything” party will celebrate the act of mark making, tracing gestures, and transforming wishes and intentions into physical objects 

For more information, please visit demo2023.org.