DEMO2025 Extended Realities Mainstage Talks
Join us for Extended Realities Track Talks, presented in partnership with Onassis and Onassis ONX.
NEW INC's 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’s Opening Program, members share their individual projects during Track Talks which are followed by a group conversation moderated by the Track Mentor-in-Residence.
Extended Realities supports artists and technologists who use XR tools to engage the third space between our physical and digital worlds. From audiovisual performances and meditations to new modes of XR distribution, Extended Realities Track members feature a lineup of producers, performers, sound artists, game designers, and digital worldbuilders.
To set the stage for our Extended Realities Track Talks, Afro-Brazilian artist and game designer Gabriel Massan will share a talk on the colonial implications of creative world-building. As creator of the game-based, multi-collaborator project Third World: The Bottom Dimension, Massan says of his work, “I want to create the experience of walking through possibilities and memories of life... A work that people can walk inside.”
Featured Track presenters include Johanna Flato, Kevin Peter He, Srushti Kamat, Tina Tarighian, and zavé martohardjono. The presentations will conclude with a group discussion moderated by Extended Realities Mentor-in-Residence, Danielle McPhatter.
Notes on Admission and Tickets:
Tickets are for the Track Keynote and Track Talks.
Track Showcases, Studio DEMO, DEMO2025 Store, and the Power Lunches do not require tickets and are open to the public.
Tickets are free on a first come, first serve basis.
In the case the Mainstage have reached their seating capacity, priority will be given to those who have registered in advance. Please note registration does not fully guarantee admission.
There will be an overflow space in the Studio DEMO area available with monitors featuring a Livestream of the Track Keynote and Track Talks, should the Mainstage reach seating capacity.
For more information on the full schedule, speakers and more visit DEMOfestival.org
About NEW INC
Expanding on the New Museum’s commitment to new art and new ideas, NEW INC is the Museum’s cultural incubator supporting creative practitioners and small businesses working across art, design, and technology. Now in Year 11, 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 New Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Director Lisa Phillips and former Deputy Director Karen Wong in 2014 as the first museum-led cultural incubator.
About New Museum
The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.