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NEW INC, an incubator for people working at the intersection of art, design, & technology, organizes an evening of work-in-progress from its interdisciplinary cohort of artists, designers, technologists, futurists, & creative entrepreneurs, with presentations by elekhlekha , Johanna Flato, Avneesh Sarwate & Sumanth Srinivasan, & Trevor Van de Velde. This OPEN STUDIOS at CPR is an extension of NEW INC's monthly Workshares program, where cohort members receive feedback, exchange knowledge, cross-pollinate ideas, & ask for help - & the first time the public is invited to engage in these gatherings.
OPEN STUDIOS is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, & serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process.
PROGRAM
elekhlekha : Networked Gong Gathering
This collaborative sound-making workshop is inspired by a community gathering of gong ensembles throughout the SEA. While keeping the core of having rhythms distributed among participants, it focuses on collectively reconstructing sounds from different SEA sound cultures through networks using code.
Johanna Flato: Spatial Articulations with Tangle AR
Tangle AR App is an artist-built mobile tool for spatial annotation & poetic encounters. Currently in beta, it aims to inject critical friction into this accelerationalist AI/XR moment & seed our tech-mediated environments with a more civic, intentional, & playful dimension.
Avneesh Sarwate & Sumanth Srinivasan: Creative Coding Test Kitchen
Join Avneesh & Sumanth as they show off a new interactive audiovisual recipe! This talk/demo will show off an audiovisual work built with their new javascript libraries. They'll explain what tooling gaps they're trying to fill, & what new forms of art they hope enable for themselves & others.
Trevor Van de Velde: Hacking Grains
The universe is granular. Hacking Grains is a multidisciplinary performance project that reimagines the world being made of grains. This project explores the relationships between technology, ritual, & Asian futurity through amplified grains of rice. Individual grains become both sonic actuators & resonators. The sounds of rice dominate the space through custom-built synthesizers, speaker installations, & live performance.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
elekhlekha is a collaborative research-based group consisting of immigrant Bangkok-born, Brooklyn-based artists, Kengchakaj- & Nitcha-. The collective delves into subversive storytelling by exploring non-hegemonic sounds & visual archives, historical research-decoding, & unlearning biases. elekhlekha's work spans performing documents, multimedia, & technology centers to interrogate, experiment, explore, & define decolonized possibilities. elekhlekha is a Thai word that means dispersedly, chaos, all over, & non-direction to break free our practices from being labeled through a Western lens. In 2022, they were awarded the Lumen Prize Gold Award. The artists have received grants & development funds from Rhizome, the Processing Foundation, & more for their projects. elekhlekha is Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellows, 2023-2024 AIR at CultureHub, & the NEW INC Y10 Art & Code track member.
Johanna Flato is a visual artist & creative technologist based in Brooklyn, NY & was born in San Antonio, TX. She investigates ways in which our sense of site - & in turn, locational belonging - is mediated & manipulated through language, technology, & gesture. She is the founder & developer of an augmented reality app called Tangle - a mobile tool for spatial annotation & poetic encounters. Tangle makes site-based, real-time, mixed-reality ideation & collaboration possible. It aims to inject critical friction into this accelerationalist AI/XR moment & seed our tech-mediated environments with a more civic, intentional, & playful dimension. As an ongoing research thread, Johanna coined & iteratively re-works the notion of a "syn-site" (a term updating Robert Smithson's site/non-site construct for our contemporary extended realities).
Avneesh Sarwate & Sumanth Srinivasan, spurred by their own adventures & challenges with making & sharing software-based multimedia art, want to build browser-based tools & software libraries that allow artists to more easily design, collaborate on, & share digital work. Avneesh Sarwate is a programmer, musician, visual artist, & improviser. His work focuses on using real time computer systems to enhance the gestural & impulsive elements of the creative process. A guitarist since childhood, jamming with computers has been a goal of his from the minute he started making art with them. Sumanth Srinivasan is an engineer, visual artist, writer, & musician. His work thus far has centered around digitizing human imperfections & playfulness in art, & the presentation of noise & degradation as an aesthetic.
Trevor Van de Velde is a composer, sound artist, instrument builder, & creative programmer based in NYC. Trevor's work focuses on exploring the relationship between technology, play, materiality, & hybridity through a combination of "hacked" electronics & live performance.
NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform for furthering the New Museum's ongoing commitment to new art & new ideas. Now in Year 11, NEW INC's membership model continues to support a diverse range of creative practitioners with a values-driven program & safe space for gathering & developing new creative projects & businesses.
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