Creative Science
Inherit, Yield, Regenerate
Opening performances are grounding moments within the festival intended to set the tone prior to each showcase. These sessions are delivered by musicians and live performers who are originative in their art.
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 Simons Foundation, Creative Science supports artists and creative practitioners employing modes of scientific inquiry to advance storytelling. Following presentations by Chando Ao, Craftwork, MORAKANA Studio, Tao Leigh Goffe and Aerica Shimizu Banks, and Tajah Ellis, the Trackâs Mentor-in-Residence Sara Nejad 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.
Precious Okoyomon delivers their keynote conversation in alignment with the principles of our Creative Science Track. Having a world-opening practice, Okoyomon will discuss their meticulous practice of reinscribing the gallery or museum space to form a micro-ecosystem with both indigenous and invasive species, reflecting back to us an investigation of colonialization and the natural world.
This exhibition convenes the work of seven artists and collectives who have been in community with one another for the past nine months as residents in NEW INCâs Creative Science track.
Chando Ao, Craftwork, MORAKANA, OUTOFSEAM, Martha Poggioli, Tao Leigh Goffe, and IzNettere utilize natural and synthetic fibers, fungi, plant matter, glass, malleable surgical grade plastics, electromagnetic waves, and various states of material transformation. The exhibited experimental works actualize and propose a surpassing of scientific boundaries through vibrant, evolutionary forms of mutation, superpowers, and magical knowledge passed between ancestral generations.
Aoâs foot becomes a vessel for flowering life, while our hands become ultrahydrophobic like lotus leaves with the application of his engineered particles, suggesting a medium that might make us amphibious again. OUTOFSEAMâs plant dyed fabrics carry their origins in family and colonial histories. Goffeâs fermentation and pickling processes join global diasporic traditions and anti-imperialist struggles at a singular banquet. Nettere bridges biological, chemical, photochemical, and digital processes to fix the fugitive nature of non-fruiting mycelium.
MORAKANA imagines an organismâs future phylogenetic adaptation to the electromagnetic spectrum to find nourishment in persistent and ever-present 5G wifi waves, which may exist long after human life on earth. Poggioli transfigures surgical grade plastics and kiln cast glass into messy, organic compositions inspired by biomorphic shapes encountered during medical procedures. Craftwork absorbs and illuminates the viewerâs voice within a tapestry of encoded histories inspired by Incan Quipu and Underground Railroad quilt ciphers.
The qualities and concerns shared and divergent between the Creative Science track members who are assembled as ever by chance, speak to transformational and chemical reactions of making and regeneration.
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.
Creative Science supports artists and creative practitioners employing modes of scientific inquiry to advance storytelling. The members of this track are revealing and complicating the world around us to show how science shows up in our day-to-day lives.
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