NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator, has announced its 11th annual cohort for the September 2024 to June 2025 program cycle. The cohort of 82 new members working at the intersection of art, design, technology, and entrepreneurship will participate in NEW INC’s yearlong program, which includes a values-centered business education curriculum, mentorship, and opportunities to showcase their work to the public, including NEW INC’s annual DEMO festival at the close of the program year. NEW INC’s 11th cohort of new members includes individual practitioners, collectives, studios, nonprofits, and startups. In alignment with NEW INC’s mission to foster cultural value, many of these members are developing projects that emphasize social impact, addressing issues of racial equity, climate, access, education, and the future of work, among other pressing concerns.
The new members include participants in five tracks: Art & Code, redefining cultural and digital landscapes in collaboration with Rhizome; Creative Science, employing modes of scientific inquiry to advance creativity and storytelling; Extended Realities, expanding the artistic potential for technology to blur the physical and digital worlds; Social Architecture, reconstructing social and public space through design and architecture; and Cooperative Studies, designing care-based models for collective futures. NEW INC’s unique membership model supports a diverse range of creative practitioners. Over 60% of Y11 cohort members identify as people of color and 60% as women or gender non-conforming, joining an active alumni network of just about 650 members, 58% of whom identify as people of color and 62% as women or gender non-conforming. Over ten years, members have raised $28.1 million in investment capital, generated $43.3 million in revenue, and established or retained 348 businesses in New York City.
NEW INC members have been recognized as emerging leaders in their respective fields, which traverse art, technology, design, fashion, architecture, urban planning, education, music and beyond. They have presented work at the New Museum, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, Ars Electronica, and Coachella, and have won awards and accolades from the Serpentine, the Emmy Awards, Fulbright Program, Creative Capital, the Webby Awards, LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship, and Time Magazine’s “Most Influential People in AI.”
Learn more at newinc.org/members.
