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DEMO2026 schedule and tickets are LIVE 🎟️ Join the conversations shaping contemporary culture at NEW INC’s annual festival DEMO. Three days of bold ideas, new work, and late nights celebrating art, design, and technology. June 3–5 🎤 Talks from NEW INC members and keynote speakers across our five tracks: Art & Code, Cooperative Studies, Creative Science, Extended Realities, and Social Architecture. 📺 Studio DEMO live broadcasts hosted by NEW INC partners @rhizomedotorg , @serpentineuk , Geidai Project, @youngarts , and @onassis.onx 🪩 Parties and special guest performances 🧢 Pop-up DEMO Store stocked with products from NEW INC alumni and exclusive merch from @arena_embroidery Showcases on view June 3–10 🌐 NEW INC Track Showcase, “TOTAL FLOW,” intervenes in systems of hyper acceleration. Curated by Mindy Seu (@mindyseu ). ⚗️ “Ancestral Intelligence Network: Echolocation” by Jazsalyn (@jazsalyn ) maps ancestral intelligence data, which she considers an early form of AI. Commissioned by EY Intelligent Realities Lab. ⛓️‍💥 “From Fragment to Form,” curated by Geidai Project, features work from Japanese artists engaging concepts of rupture and repair. See you on the Bowery. Get your tickets at demofestival.org/tickets. Link in NEW INC’s bio

At DEMO2026, NEW INC members present their work pushing the boundaries of art, design, and technology. Featured in this video are five NEW INC Members presenting work at DEMO2026: 🪱 William Eliot (@takaomakesthings ), Social Architecture member collaborating with mealworms as non-human designers 🎞️ Melissa Lyde, Cooperative Studies member and founder of Alfreda’s Cinema (@alfredascinema ), a cinematic refuge for Black cinema in NYC 🍄‍🟫 Sirintip (@mssirintip ), Creative Science member, translating scientific research into embodied musical experiences 🌊 Rena Anakwe (@aspaceforsound ), Extended Realities member connecting community to alternative healing experiences 🔊 Lita (@lita.systems ), Art & Code member creating sonic liberation devices that listen to people, land, and history. Join us at New Museum for DEMO2026 Track Talks June 3–5 and the Track Showcase, “TOTAL FLOW,” on view June 3–10. Learn more about the Members powering DEMO2026 at demofestival.org 🔗 Link in NEW INC’s bio

The experimental force of NEW INC is back on the Bowery with the DEMO2026 Track showcase. Meet a few of the Year 12 NEW INC Members featured in the show: Umber Majeed (@u_mbr0 ), who is exploring South Asian diasporic histories through XR, and Adam Vackar (@adam.vackar ), who is unpacking the dynamics between human and non-human entities. Curated by Mindy Seu (@mindyseu ), the DEMO2026 Track showcase is investigating the acceleration of labor and its global contexts. Join us this June to experience the interdisciplinary work Members are incubating in our Year 12 cohort. 🗓️ On view June 3–10 🔗 Visit the link in our bio to learn more about the Members in the DEMO2026 showcase.

NEW INC curated Studio DEMO sessions explore how stories are told, preserved, and reimagined through emerging technologies and media. Join us on June 4 for two conversations using storytelling as a tool for memory-making. SWANA Digital Kitsch: Umber Majeed (@u_mbr0 ) moderates a conversation on archiving technological histories from the SWANA region, bringing together Amad Ansari (@badgalansari ) of Palestine Online and the duo behind Khajistan (@khajistan_ ). Archives of Architecture: Writers and researchers Jessica Lynne (@lynne_bias ) and Amber Esseiva (@amberesseiva ) discuss their work to preserve the legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith. Moderated by Ladi’Sasha (@ladi.sasha ), this conversation centers on the broader history of Black Southern women’s cultural production. ⏺️ Get a single-day ticket or a Festival Pass to catch all Studio DEMO sessions at the New Museum. Visit demofestival.org to learn more.

Can a recipe operate as a prototype for systemic change? Studio DEMO x Serpentine Arts Technologies host a test kitchen to reimagine civic intervention through the lens of food.  Stop by DEMO2026 on June 5 for three @serpentineuk curated test kitchens 🥬 Adriana Gallo: Coagulating Sunlight (@adriggallo ) explores ecologies of labour and metabolic sublimes. Working across exhibition-making and shared meals, she approaches cooking as both medium and methodology, examining systems of value, care, and extraction embedded in everyday acts of nourishment. Tao Leigh Goffe: Gastropoetics Award-winning writer, theorist and artist Tao Leigh Goffe (@taoleighgoffe , @darklaboratory ) extends her investigation of ‘gastropoetics’ through Afro-Caribbean and Asian foodways, considering fermentation, survival, and nourishment as decolonial praxis.  quori theodor: So Rote It Be (@q_u_o_r_i ) shares a performative exploration of unlearning as a form of insubordination. Their work examines capital disobedience and the politics of vulnerability through food as both medium and method.  ⏺️ Get a single-day ticket or Festival Pass to catch Studio DEMO x Serpentine at the New Museum. Visit demofestival.org to learn more.

Studio DEMO x YoungArts highlights the bold and innovative alumni of @youngarts who embrace NEW INC’s spirit of multi-hyphenate creative expression. Come to DEMO2026 on June 5 for these special sessions. Atmospheres: Architects and artists Germane Barnes (@germane.barnes ), Hanna Ali (@thehannaali , @hoechitecture ), and Felix Burrichter (@febubufe , @pinupmagazine ) come together to explore how spatial practices construct immersive experiences and can shift the way we inhabit and understand space. In Media Res: From interactive environments to game-based structures, artists and storytellers Christiane Paul (@paulc236 ), James Sprang (@jamesallistersprang ), and Leo Castaneda (@leocastaneda__ ) explore how immersion reshapes narrative time, authorship, and the role of the viewer. ⏺️ Get a single-day ticket or Festival Pass to catch Studio DEMO x YoungArts at the New Museum. Visit demofestival.org to learn more.

The Geidai Project presents work by Japanese artists and researchers exploring how fragmentation, rupture, and repair generate new forms of artistic practice. The “From Fragment to Form” showcase proposes breakage as a condition for regeneration rather than an endpoint. 🗓️ On view from June 3–10 Work by Gak Yamada (@gakyamada ), Goki Muramoto (@goki_muramoto ), Rediscover Project (@rediscover_project ), Shin Hanagata (@shin.hanagata ), Taro Yasuno (@taroyasuno ), and Yamar Yoshida (@yoshidayamar ) 📺 June 4 Studio DEMO x Geidai Project Dive deeper into the memories, futures, and fractures that inform the showcase. Moderated by Yayoi Shionoiri (@yayoi_shionoiri ), join Chiku Komiya (@chikukomiya ), Gak Yamada (@gakyamada ), Rediscover Project (@rediscover_project ), and Taro Yasuno (@taroyasuno ) for live presentations, performances, and conversations exploring how disruption has nourished a culture of worldbuilding. Developed in collaboration with Tokyo University of the Arts, Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Management, Aichi University of the Arts, and supported by Melco Group, Inc. 🎟️ Grab your DEMO2026 tickets to catch three days of talks and performances, three showcases, and museum entry. Visit demofestival.org to learn more.

Studio DEMO x Onassis ONX live broadcast sessions consider who models and shapes world(s). Join us at DEMO2026 on June 3 for two conversations curated by @onassis.onx : Vapor Logic: Engineering Unreliable Atmospheres - Artist Theo Triantafyllidis (@theo.trian ) and researcher Dr. Holly Buck explore where artistic simulation and scientific modeling overlap and how game engines and climate models construct speculative futures. Who Owns the Remix? - Moderated by curator and Director of the Mozilla Festival Zeina Abi Assy (@zeinaabiassy ), this conversation brings together rapper and artist SHIRT (@shirtnyc ) and lawyer Anibal Luque (@luque_pllc ) to examine how emerging tools are reshaping questions of authorship, sampling, and creative labor. ⏺️ Get a single-day ticket or Festival Pass to catch Studio DEMO x Onassis ONX at the New Museum. Visit demofestival.org to learn more.

For artists, play is an expansive practice. Escaping the limitations of the AAA, artist-made games have developed into a visually rich, critically alive and economically viable field. Studio DEMO is DEMO2026’s live broadcast hub at the New Museum. Join us on June 3 for three Rhizome (@rhizomedotorg ) curated sessions. Role Playing As Praxis: Caratoes (@caratoes ), Jacky Connolly (@permanentautumn ), and Skawennati (@skawennati ) bridge the worlds of simulation as self. In this conversation, these artists share how characters are tools for expanding empathy and authoring new realities. Origins of the Artist Game: Mitchell Chan (@mitchellfchan ) traces the history of experimental games and artists who challenge the AAA industry. Prototyping Worlds: Alex Declino (@alexdeclino , @sybil.gg ), Mitch Anzuoni (@inpatient_press ), and Tess Elliot (@i_heart_livingthings ) come together as game designers using real-world data to model climate futures, economic ideologies, and systems of care. ⏺️ Get a single-day ticket or Festival Pass to catch Studio DEMO x Rhizome at the New Museum. Visit demofestival.org to learn more.

At DEMO2026, Jazsalyn maps ancestral and archival data, with “Ancestral Intelligence Network: Echolocation.” Using video game and GIS mapping technology, @jazsalyn transforms African and diasporic knowledge systems into an interactive map and living archive. Featuring spatial audio and interviews, “Echolocation” brings together artists, technologists, environmentalists, healers, and community leaders to contextualize how intelligence models change when human and more-than-human life are taken into account. “Ancestral Intelligence Network: Echolocation” is created in partnership with NEW INC and EY Intelligent Realities Lab. 🗓️On view June 3–10, 2026. 🔗Visit demofestival.org to learn more. Grab your DEMO2026 tickets, granting you access to 3 days of talks and performances, 3 showcases, and museum entry.

Track Talks at DEMO2026 are framed by industry leaders making impactful strides to shape the present and future of their fields. Keynote speakers draw on their knowledge and experience to offer context and perspective for the projects developed within NEW INC. DEMO2026 Keynote Speakers include: June 3 Lawrence Lek (@lawrencelek ), Extended Realities Keynote Lawrence is a multimedia artist advancing the concept of Sinofuturism while blending art, music, and filmmaking. Dr. Sarah Lewis (@sarahelizabethlewis1 ), Art & Code Keynote Dr. Lewis is an unstoppable force leading urgent conversations on creativity and justice. June 4 Devon Turnbull (@devonojas ), Social Architecture Keynote On the forefront of sound and spatial design, Devon is an artist and engineer renowned for his sonic projects under the pen OJAS Femi Adyemi (@eddie_fiction ), Cooperative Studies Keynote A true visionary and community builder, Femi is the founder and CCO of alternative broadcast platform NTS Radio. June 5 Xin Liu (@xin_liu_studio ), Creative Science Keynote Multi-hyphenate Xin is an artist and engineer advancing research expanding our understanding technological and planetary systems. Learn more about the visionaries shaping DEMO2026 on demofestival.org. Link in NEW INC's bio 🔗

NEW INC x Just Tech's panel, "From Studio to Study: Artistic Research on AI and Society" asked the audience to challenge the inevitability of our everyday technology, to recognize and deconstruct decisions made before software reaches the user. For our panelists, these decisions look like introducing ambiguity by intentionally delaying program response time or reevaluating agency by replacing 'Alexa' technology with a live human. The talk featured Dorothy Santos (@maestrasantos ), Lauren Lee McCarthy (@laurenleemack ), Romi Morrison (@elegantcollisions ), X.A. Li and moderator Nabiha Syed (@nabihasyed ), Mozilla Foundation President. In partnership with Social Science Research Center @ssrc_org Photos by Jeremy Grier (@jeregrier )