Extended Realities
Building Resilient Realities
Our NEW INC member cohort consists of 5 unique Tracks or focus areas guided by a Mentor-in-Residence: Art & Code, Cooperative Studies, Creative Science, Social Architecture, and XR (Extended Realities). At the core of DEMO, members share their individual projects during Track Talks which are followed by a group conversation moderated by the Track Mentor-in-Residence.
In partnership with the EY Metaverse Lab and Onassis ONX, Extended Realities supports artists and technologists who blur the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. These speakers are forging new audience relationships through emerging storytelling methods, including AI, motion capture, mixed reality, and more. Following presentations by Leah Smithson, Luca Lee, Mischa Kuma, MYStudio, and Nat Decker, the Trackâs Mentor-in-Residence Danielle McPhatter will moderate a group discussion.
DEMO2024 Keynote Presentations serve as the meeting point between various disciplines, areas of inquiry, creative practices, generations, and career levels. Our invited speakers share their knowledge to bring further context to the ideas and projects incubated at NEW INC, as well as offer an additional perspective garnered from experience, passion, and illuminating creative work in their own fields.
Andrew Thomas Huang delivers his keynote in alignment with the principles of our XR Track. In this presentation, Huang will share his process of constructing exemplary world-building across short and long-form media formats. A figure that is known for creating hybrid fantasy worlds and mythical dreamscapes inspired by his Chinese heritage, queer Asian mythology, and folklore, Huang will speak to his rich and purposeful use of XR tools to produce dynamic imagery on screen.
Studio DEMO is a broadcast hub run in partnership with independent art publisher Montez Press Radio, inviting our NEW INC alumni and creative community for a series of live talks, demonstrations, couch conversations, panel discussions, DJ sets, performances, and more.
In this closing Studio DEMO panel, NEW INCâs Founding Director Julia Kaganskiy brings together some of the incubatorâs earliest XR (extended realities) artists and producers for a roundtable reflecting on the past decade of this ever-evolving storytelling format, while also projecting where they see XR developing in the field next.
Our NEW INC member cohort consists of 5 unique tracks or focus areas guided by a Mentor-in-Residence. Annually, our members contribute to a showcase; presentations at the core of DEMO Festival, where artists share work with the public and feedback with their track mentor in a live, interactive setting.
Our XR (Extended Realities) track explores how artists can use, interact with and leverage XR tools to create dynamic experiences. Artists in this cohort leverage emerging tools that are forming new audience relationships to technology and are interested in the third space between our physical and digital worlds. Here they develop projects that explore aesthetic and technical opportunities for motion capture, virtual reality, augmented reality, the metaverse, immersive sound and more.
DEMO2024 Building Resilient Realities showcase is a collective inquiry into the possibilities of preservation, resilience, and regeneration through the impact of extended reality (XR). Here our cohort are looking at ways to both confront and resist the biases and inaccessibility of emerging technologies that endanger our identities, environments, communities, and future histories. This showcase explores how we can repurpose technology that is often associated with restlessness and isolation to create a safe space for reflection, community and accountability, and refocus on connection with ourselves and other organic beings.
In a showcase moderated by mentor Danielle McPhatter, artists Luca Lee, Leah Smithson, MYStudio, Mischa Kuma and Nat Decker use a series of digital creations â interactive game, multimedia performance, speculative architectural model and more â to harness the transformative potency of XR and use this an an avenue for powerful change. They choreograph a âdigital embodiment of liberation,â guiding us towards a more integrated, resilient understanding of self and community amidst the humanless innovation that shapes our era. Here, viewers will see a challenging of established norms to reclaim and reshape our relationship with technology, outlining a world where we are no longer estranged from ecosystems and histories that sustain us, nor alienated by technology we have birthed.
About the Track:
Our NEW INC member cohort consists of 5 unique Tracks or focus areas guided by a Mentor-in-Residence: Art & Code, Cooperative Studies, Creative Science, Social Architecture, and XR (Extended Realities). Annually, our members are invited to contribute to a group showcase demonstrating the Trackâs guiding questions. These exhibitions are curated and produced by invited guests.
Our XR (Extended Realities) track explores how artists can use, interact with and leverage XR tools to create dynamic experiences. Artists in this cohort leverage emerging tools that are forming new audience relationships to technology and are interested in the third space between our physical and digital worlds. Here they develop projects that explore aesthetic and technical opportunities for motion capture, virtual reality, augmented reality, the metaverse, immersive sound and more.
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