NEW INC & EY Metaverse Lab - Multi-Reality Installations
NEW INC & EY Metaverse Lab - Multi-Reality Installations
Wednesday, February 14, 11AM - 3PM: Laura Splan’s Metafrictions
Thursday, February 15th, 2PM - 5PM: Laura Splan’s Metafrictions and Eva Davidova’s Audience as Virus
Thursday, February 15th, 5:30PM - 7PM: Panel and Performance
Friday, February 16th, 11AM - 3PM: Eva Davidova’s Audience as a Virus
ABOUT THE EVENT:
NEW INC and EY Metaverse Lab proudly present two multimedia installations at Onassis ONX, developed during the collaboration’s artists-in-residence program. The initiative brings together artists and technologists to explore challenges and issues affecting humanity today. This year’s program features artists Laura Splan and Eva Davidova. Splan is developing Metafrictions, a work that examines new epistemologies emerging alongside notions of the metaverse and the cognitive impact immersive digital worlds may have on top of embodied experiences. Davidova will present Audience as Virus, a performance dependent on audience participation as it examines the current limitations of AI’s predictive abilities. Both artists’ works raise awareness of technology’s growing homogeneity—its effects on humanity and creative attempts to break free.
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION:
The EY Metaverse Lab’s artist-in-residence program, a collaborative initiative with NEW INC, brings together artists and technologists to delve into explorations surrounding humanity and our interactions with society-altering technologies. The EY Metaverse Lab’s primary emphasis is on harnessing the potential of immersive and emerging technologies for positive human impact, focusing on a wide spectrum of themes including accessibility, identity and inclusion, social mobility, and social impact. With the power of colliding the worlds of art and technology, the collaborations between the EY Metaverse Lab and their artists reflect on the importance of the human condition being deeply embedded in how we think about and imagine new futures that activate emerging technology for human betterment.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Laura Splan is a Brooklyn-based artist working at the intersections of science, technology, and culture. Her research-based studio practice and interdisciplinary collaborations culminate in multimedia exhibitions that reframe hypothetical artifacts of a posthuman landscape to unravel entanglements of natural and built systems. Her internationally recognized artworks and exhibitions have been presented at Musea Brugge, Bruges; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; Museum of Arts & Design, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn Museum, and The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs, Stockholm. Her work is in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and commissions include projects for the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, Vanderbilt Museum, and Bruges Triennial. Splan’s research has been supported by the Jerome Foundation, Harvestworks, Simons Foundation, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Eva Davidova is an interdisciplinary artist with focus on new media. Her work addresses ecological disaster, interdependency, and political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. She questions what we give for granted and explores possibilities for agency through uncertainty and play. Davidova often deliberately “misuses” technology to disturb its prevalent acceptance and emotional manipulation that physical and informational architecture both exert. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the Everson Museum, the Albright Knox Museum, MACBA Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid; and La Regenta, Canarias among others. She is also an Onassis ONX member.
ABOUT THE EY METAVERSE LAB:
The EY Metaverse Lab’s artist-in-residence program, a collaborative initiative with NEW INC, brings together artists and technologists to delve into explorations surrounding humanity and our interactions with society-altering technologies. The EY Metaverse Lab’s primary emphasis is on harnessing the potential of immersive and emerging technologies for positive human impact, focusing on a wide spectrum of themes including accessibility, identity and inclusion, social mobility, and social impact. With the power of colliding the worlds of art and technology, the collaborations between the EY Metaverse Lab and their artists reflect on the importance of the human condition being deeply embedded in how we think about and imagine new futures that activate emerging technology for human betterment.
ABOUT NEW INC:
As the first museum-led cultural incubator, NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform for furthering the New Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Now in Year 10, NEW INC’s membership model continues to support a diverse range of creative practitioners with a values-driven program and safe space for gathering and developing new creative projects and businesses. In 2020, NEW INC launched ONX Studio, an XR accelerator for artists, in partnership with the Onassis Foundation. NEW INC was cofounded by the New Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Director Lisa Phillips and former Deputy Director Karen Wong in 2014.
ABOUT ONASSIS ONX:
A hybrid production and exhibition space, Onassis ONX hosts a global community of members who create interactive and immersive XR works. Located in the Onassis Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, it was founded in partnership by the Onassis Foundation and New Museum’s NEW INC.