DEMO2023 - Extended Realities
DEMO2023 - Extended Realities
Showcase: June 21-25, 12PM-7PM with works by Antariksha Studio, JAZSALYN, Lisa Jamhoury, New Art City, Tao Leigh Goffe, Ina Chen & Calvin Sin, LaJuné McMillian, Matthew D. Gantt, Steven Reneau
Performances: June 23rd, 7PM featuring LaJuné McMillian, Lisa Jamhoury, and Ina Chen & Calvin Sin
DEMO2023 is NEW INC’s festival presenting the next generation of creative projects and enterprises through exhibitions, installations, performances, and talks by industry leaders and NEW INC members at the New Museum and partner venues across New York City.
NEW INC’s members each take part in program tracks: areas of specialization that are guided throughout the year by a mentor-in-residence. Supported by the EY Metaverse Lab, the artists, designers, and technologists in the Extended Realities Track map the blurring boundaries between physical and digital worlds. They work as choreographers, VR/AR producers, and performers who are interested in how bodies, identities, and culture are represented and transformed through live experiences mediated by technology.
DEMO2023 is created and presented by NEW INC. The Extended Realities Showcase is Presented with major support from EY Metaverse Lab and in partnership with the Onassis Foundation. Showcase support from LUME Studios.
More about the Artists:
Antariksha Studio
A transmedia collective that crafts indie video games, films, installations, and performances with a focus on the multicultural heritage of India. Their speculative designs deploy ethical worldbuilding scenarios, ethnographic research methods, and alternative business models to create Indofuturist narratives and next-gen characters centered around the themes of activism, pluralism, and sustainability.
JAZSALYN
Work where fiction and reality collide. Through alternative and computer-based media, she extends the practice of re-indigenization as a ritual to summon and recall ancestral intelligence. As the creative director of experimental design lab B–EYOND, she directs BLACK BEYOND, a collective art practice where antidisciplinary artists reimagine extended realities for BLACKNESS. She also curates a monthly show titled ALTERNATE REALITIES on dublab radio
LaJuné McMillan
A Multidisciplinary Artist, and Educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary 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.
Matthew D. Gantt
An artist, composer, and educator focused on sound in virtual spaces, generative systems facilitated by idiosyncratic technology, and digital production presets as sonic readymades. He worked as a studio assistant to electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, and has been an active participant in the international creative community, presenting or performing at spaces such as Pioneer Works, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Babycastles, SVA Visible Futures Lab, Panoply Performance Laboratory, EMPAC, the Wrong Biennale, and countless DIY venues across North America.
Steven Reneau
A Brooklyn based writer and producer. Reneau utilizes film and emerging technologies to develop work that examines the intersection of art and music culture and explores how storytelling can reframe established narratives and shift power dynamics within society.
Ina Chen and Calvin Sin
Los Angeles-based Creative Technologists, Designers and Cultural Nomads. They bridge Art and Technology to experiment, create and respond. Hail from Suzhou and Hong Kong, Ina and Calvin has each lived in both Europe and the US. Draws on their personal experiences with diverse cultures, they explore past and emerging issues related to cultural and social phenomenon through worldbuilding and storytelling.
Josie Williams
A proud first-generation Honduran-American Black woman who is a creative technologist, machine/deep learning researcher, and digital artist. She has presented her research on machine learning bias in chronic kidney disease prediction at NeurIPS's Fair Health in Machine Learning workshop in Vancouver and NYC Media Lab’s Summit in 2019.
Lisa Jamhoury
A Lebanese-American movement artist and programmer creating embodied, computational experiences. Rooted in contemporary circus and mindfulness as means to engage trauma, her practice includes interactive performances, installations, and websites that encourage a consensual, celebratory approach to humanity’s shared physicality.
New Art City
A virtual art gallery and exhibition toolkit for digital artists, which prioritizes access, expressivity, and care. As a 3D multiplayer tool, New Art City allows artists to design their dream exhibitions and present them in a fine art context for a global audience. Since 2020, the team has built infrastructure used by thousands of artists with partners spanning education, cultural institutions and the underground.
TAO LEIGH GOFFE
Committed to building intellectual and digital /analog technology communities, Tao Leigh Goffe is the founder of the Dark Laboratory and Afro-Asia Group. Dark Lab is an engine for the study of race and ecology through digital storytelling (XR). Afro-Asia Group explores 'Third World Solidarity' through global political coalition building and overlapping plantation foodways.