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nyctv launches their kickstarter today to support their video-only platform dedicated to creating, promoting, and distributing video created by New Yorkers.

NYC.TV is a video-only platform featuring original and curated programming made by New York City creators. Using the medium of moving image, NYC.TV exposes, elevates, and shares the stories and people that push New York City to the bleeding edge of global culture. A discovery platform for the rest of the world, NYC.TV propels the creative output of New York to an ever-expanding viewership. The platform prioritizes community and creators, which helps foster the highest quality work. Just like New York City, there’s something for everyone.

http://watchnyc.tv/video/support-nyc-tv-donate-to-our-kickstarter/

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I was an art student and, like all art students, I was encouraged to believe that there were a few great figures like Picasso and Kandinsky, Rembrandt and Giotto and so on who sort-of appeared out of nowhere and produced artistic revolution.

As I looked at art more and more, I discovered that that wasn’t really a true picture.

What really happened was that there was sometimes very fertile scenes involving lots and lots of people—some of them artists, some of them collectors, some of them curators, thinkers, theorists, people who were fashionable and knew what the hip things were—all sorts of people who created a kind of ecology of talent. And out of that ecology arose some wonderful work.

The period that I was particularly interested in, ’round about the Russian revolution, shows this extremely well. So I thought that originally those few individuals who’d survived in history—in the sort-of “Great Man” theory of history—they were called “geniuses”. But what I thought was interesting was the fact that they all came out of a scene that was very fertile and very intelligent.

So I came up with this word “scenius”—and scenius is the intelligence of a whole… operation or group of people. And I think that’s a more useful way to think about culture, actually. I think that—let’s forget the idea of “genius” for a little while, let’s think about the whole ecology of ideas that give rise to good new thoughts and good new work.

—Brian Eno, on "Scenius"

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NEW INC's 2014 Highlights

It’s hard to pick ten featured projects from the past four months, but we couldn’t help but highlight some of the most memorable achievements from our community in 2014. Happy New Year and here’s to even more innovations in 2015!

The Principals - "Ancient Chaos" with Devonté Hynes at Sonos Studio

4Real - "Thermal Global" with Teengirl Fantasy

Lisa Park - “Eunoia II”

PARTY - "ALMA Music Box: Melody of a dying star”

Specular - "Depth Kit"

Accurat - "Friends in Space"

Rhizome - Theresa Duncan's visionary videogames for girls

Adam Harvey - "Big Data Pawn Shop"

Pablo Gnecco - "Between the Two of These" in collaboration with Brannon Dorsey

Paul Soulellis - The Infrathin Salon at HyperSalon, Art Basel Miami Beach

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NEW INC’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: The most thoughtful gifts, crafted by our community 

Images, clockwise from the left: Print All Over Me, Holiday Collection; Rafaël Rozendaal, Spheres; Joe Doucet, MINIM; Emilie Baltz, image from L.O.V.E. Foodbook; The Principals, Liquid Body Flask.  

Give the gift of style with items from the Print All Over Me Special Holiday Collection. Hand selected by the team at PAOM, this collection includes dresses, sweatshirts, silk scarves, jackets, ties, jumpsuits, skirts, pants, leggings, clutches, pajamas, robes, pillows, and more, all in new, signature PAOM patterns.     

Give the gift of knowledge with Adam Harvey’s Big Data Pawn Shop schwag. You can find holiday gifts for all of your family, friends, and even pups during the #cyberdecember sale. You’ll even find matching wrapping paper!

Give the gift of simplicity with Joe Doucet’s MINIM deck of cards. This minimalist deck of regulation playing cards strips the cards bare from the typically bold and loud graphics, leaving only what is absolutely essential to the meaning of a given card. 

Give the gift of revelry with The Principals’ mirror-finish, stainless steel Liquid Body Flask: a paramount in design excellence and undoubtedly the perfect accent to any party. 

Give the gift of pleasure with Emilie Baltz’s L.O.V.E. Foodbook. Written in French, the language of love, this sensual collection of recipes book is a feast for the eyes, equally delicious and beautiful.

Give the gift of harmony with Tristan Perich’s elegantly minimal 1-Bit Symphony, “a dazzlingly low-fi electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip.”

Give the gift of information with Paul Soulellis’ Library of the Printed Web. The LotPW “collects, publishes, and distributes printout matter by artists who work on, within, and around and web.” 

Give the gift of beauty with Rafaël Rozendaal’s issue of Spheres. This publication is a document of the creative collaboration between Rozendaal and the editor, graphic designer Philippe Karrer. 

Or give the gift of a New Museum Membership for any and all art lovers. Included with this gift membership is The Principals' Lucky Number 7 Pinwheel, made in collaboration with Membership Department to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the New Museum opening its doors at 235 Bowery, with its new iconic building.  

Give the gift of inspiration with these thoughtful gifts, crafted by our NEW INC community!

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Lucky Number 7: Celebrating 7 Years of New Art and New Ideas on The Bowery

To commemorate seven years of "new art and new ideas," the New Museum collaborated with The Principals to make the 2014 Holiday Gift Membership. 

Combining the iconic silhouette of the museum with the lucky number seven, The Principals created a pinwheel with seven silver curls, each in the shape of the museum’s facade. 

Pinwheels bring up a number of associations—childhood, whimsy, luck—and are also impressive as mechanical systems: it’s simple but it does its job very well. Combining the aesthetic and engineering aspects of this typically frivolous object, The Principals conceived of something lasting and imbued with meaning, transforming what started as a disposable childhood trinket into something that can be considered in a new light and cherished. 

This pinwheel is especially unique, too: While regular pinwheels have eight leaves, The Principals designed one with seven, further customizing this pinwheel beyond its already specific silhouette. What is more, each pinwheel is handmade with custom manufactured leaves, individually die-cut and assembled. 

Recently, the design studio has been drawn to pinwheels, using them for their massive installation Glory Wall, which took up the entire stage at MoMA PS1’s 2014 Summer Warm Up series. This provided the dynamic background, responsive to both light and air flow, for performers like Skrillex, Sophie, Avalon Emerson, and Benji B, among others.  

The material is same as The Principals’ installation Ancient Chaos at Sonos Studios in collaboration with Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange). Installations such as this and Glory Wall at PS1 are indicative of the studio’s fascination with reflective surfaces, fluid forms, and kinetic interaction. 

This combination of aesthetic effects and mechanics references natural geometry and patterns, modern architecture, as well as the artist group Zero, Kinetic Art, and artists such as Dan Graham. 

Only a limited number of Holiday Gift Membership Pinwheels were produced. Become a member by clicking here, before it's too late to have one of these inimitable objects for yourself!

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This week Art Basel Miami Beach brings the international artworld together in one place for special exhibitions, talks, and performances by 250 of the world’s leading galleries and some of our NEW INC Members! While there were some related events earlier this week, ABMB officially kicks off today, Thursday, December 4 and goes through Sunday, December 7. Here’s our guide to NEW INC x #ABMB:

From 4 - 5 PM on Monday, December 2, Paul Soulellis, founder of the Library of the Printed Web, will discuss the art and curation of Hypersalon with its directors, Philippe Riss, director of XPO and Kelani Nichole, director of TRANSFER. See the invite here.

In conjunction with the events at Hypersalon, Hyperallergic will be posting articles throughout the week, which will then be published in the Hypersalon catalogue. Read Paul’s contribution here.

Rafaël Rozendaal is exhibiting work at Hypersalon and will be one of the featured artists at Steve Turner Contemporary.

From 3 - 4 PM on Thursday, December 4, Director of NEW INC, Julia Kaganskiy, will be in conversation with Magda Sawon, co-founder and director of Postmasters Gallery, and collector Alain Servais to discuss 'Art and Commerce in the Contemporary Landscape.'

Ashley Zelinskie is exhibiting her work with Torch Gallery at Art Miami. While scoping out the scene, ArtLocal snapped this photo of Ashley next to one of her works of Reverse Abstraction. ArtLocal founders Steve Miller, Sean Green, and Raymond Nguyen are spreading the word about their app at ABMB this week, but you can try it out wherever you are!

From the Bowery to Miami Beach, Print All Over Me is always in style. Partnering with NADA, PAOM will be doing special "artist editions" of clothing using images created by José Lerma, Amy Yao, and Sarah Braman. The collection is called NADA x PAOM and will be available to purchase onsite, at the NADA shop, and online.

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Today Accurat's Friends in Space launched as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and fellow astronauts Terry Virts and Anton Shkapelrov arrived at the International Space Station for a 6-month mission. Now space enthusiasts can stay connected and track astronauts in real-time with this new interactive web app.

According to Accurat, "Friends in Space is the first social network that extends beyond Earth; a six-month long open window to make new friends from all over the world and join astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in her expedition to the International Space Station."

The homepage is your very own real-time window of the I.S.S. orbits. There, you can login with one of your social accounts and say hello to Samantha when she's in your orbit, all while making friends with other users displayed as stars "out in space" with you. The web app also offers a live HD video feed from the I.S.S. cameras, as well as the voices of Samantha and fellow astronauts streaming from inside the station.

Accurat, an Italian information design agency, celebrates Samantha with this app: the first female Italian astronaut to make it to the I.S.S. and surely the first to drink espresso in orbit.

Read more: 

App Lets You Say Hello to An Astronaut in Real-Time via Wired

Space, The Final Frontier (For Social Media): Talk to Astronauts With This New App via Vogue

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One of Print All Over Me's latest creations can be found in the window display outside of the New Museum!

Collaborating with the New Museum Store, PAOM designed a line of garments and accessories, along with a holiday window display, inspired by the Swiss Alps and The Sound of Music. Using a wide range of fabrics including silk, cotton, and neoprene for the collection, the entire surface of the fabric is printed with imagery that varies from photos of the Swiss Alps sourced from Google Image search results to brushstrokes and the "Dying Dandy," both original Print All Over Me designs.

Thinking about what a holiday window should look like, the team at PAOM couldn't help but think of the Alps. "Even though I’ve never been to the Alps, it looks so nice and fancy. There’s something really beautiful about it, but also creepy,” explains Jesse Finkelstein, cofounder of PAOM. Even though the landscape is idyllic, it is also redolent with war, namely the Swiss National Redoubt and World War II, with the Von Trapp family escaping the Nazis through the mountains. 

PAOM's interpretation of the landscape and film makes perfect sense when considering their products and corresponding window display: a classic with an unexpected twist. 

You can find PAOM x NMS collaborations here: bit.ly/PAOMxNMS

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The Principal's Brancusi Studies - Sphere II is inspired by this serialization of the artist Constantin Brancusi’s studio, recreated by the French government 3 times over 40 years, distorted in each successive iteration.

https://brands.shopspring.com/share/products/17241

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If you have iOS8, check out Erica Gorochow's Until: a minimalist countdown app that integrates with notifications center. 

Easily keep track of any event, holiday, or special date as it approaches. Quickly access countdown times from the notifications center. No clutter, no learning curve, no ads. Add unlimited events to track. What are you looking forward to?

Follow Erica at ideaarchive, and let her know what you love or want to see changed!  

Note: You need iOS8 to download. 

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"Sun Speak II is an interactive light and sound installation that reacts to voices. Upon entering the exhibition, visitors notice a glowing tube bridging the balcony and ground floor near the center of the room. Its colors and intensity are driven by microphones located inside the tube at each end.

Visitors are invited to sing, speak, or yell into either end of the tube to create new light patterns traveling from one end to the other. The colors of the light beam change according to the pitch of the voices. As visitors harmonize with each other, so too do their colors in the tube. When visitors sing in unison and match their pitches, the color of the tube is unified."

Studio Indefinit on their recent piece Sun Speak II, shown at the Dumbo Arts Festival 2014

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Commissioned by Sonos to create a sound reactive installation in collaboration with the musician Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange), The Principals created a 16' tall canopy, 8' wide by 36' long covering the performance and grand stand seating area of the private workspace collective Neuehouse.  Inspired by the work of Arthur Rimbaud, The Principals chose the name Ancient Chaos, a phrase from his poem Matinée d'Ivresse which speaks to a basic force of wonder within all of us at the hidden patterns of nature.  The installation, both a sonic composition and a physical structure, creates sounds that verge on the architectural and architecture that verges on the fluid.  

 Created using a unique system developed by The Principals, the canopy is composed of 6000 individual pieces of silver-coated mylar “quilted” together and driven by a series of hi-powered stepper motors. Using a custom spectrum analyzer/motor driver system, The Principals split out a series of sound frequencies from Hynes' composition as well as ambient sounds to control individual panels of the structure.  On the opening evening, after a panel discussion with The Principals and New Yorker Music Critic Sasha Frere-Jones, Hynes performed his composition live directly linked to the installation.        

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Between the Two of These is a collaborative project by Brannon Dorsey and Pablo Gnecco as Studio Studio. 

The installation employs infrared cameras to sense motion on location. Movement from the street causes fragmentation and destruction of the projected scene. Between the Two of These creates an active parallel between two present spaces. The constant de/reconstruction of digital representations is an entry point to themes of the temporality of memory and the poetic duality of virtual and physical space. 

The figures were scanned with the 123D Catch iPhone app. Some were museum busts and some were friends and family members. The installation is part of The Window Project at the Digital Arts and Entertainment Lab (DAEL) in Atlanta, GA. 

The Window Project daelab.com/

Music is Destroyer by Ill Poacher www.soundcloud.com/illpoacher

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FRONT COMPANY's most recent exhibition, LikeNewLandscape, is an exhibition featuring leading artists of a generation working in an age defined by a new Technological Revolution, for whom computing and the internet have radically expanded their ability to use new tools and mediums. For the first time, these artists are using digital mediums to further extend the idea of landscape into a new realm of experimentation, pushing the boundaries of art and creating new virtual realities.

Landscape—from the Dutch landschap—has a meaning that includes a panoramic view of the scenery; in that spirit, LikeNewLandscape presents a diverse group of artists whose approaches range from the internet-based abstractions of Rafaël Rozendaal, to digital interventions in the landscape by Brenna Murphy, to the video game inspired virtual worlds of Tabor Robak.

FRONT COMPANY is a curatorial agency focused on combining technology and nontraditional business models to probe the boundaries between art, technology, and commerce. Focusing on commercial clients, partnering with artists and technologists, and engaging in curatorial collaborations, FRONT COMPANY aims to integrate art into our daily lives.

Founded by a team of curators and art dealers passionate about transforming how art is experienced and sold, FRONT COMPANY curates art exhibitions in both physical and virtual spaces and offers custom art solutions to corporate and individual clients.

Website:

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Twitter:

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Artist Tristan Perich Investigates The Emotional Depths Of Electronic Media

As a composer and sound artist, Tristan Perich's artistic practice is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics, and code, often focusing on electronic 1-bit sound. His installation work investigates the relationship between sound and object often utilizing transcendental effects of repetitive algorithms, and a restrained expressionistic pallet for digital media. 

His award-winning work coupling 1-bit electronics with traditional forms in both music (Active Field, Observations) and visual art (Machine Drawings, Microtonal Wall) has been presented around the world, from Sonar and Ars Electronica to the Whitney Museum and bitforms gallery. 

Website:

www.tristanperich.com

Twitter:

@tristanperich

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Multimedia Artist Sougwen Chung Works With Light To Create Spatially Engaging Experiences

With a multi faceted approach to experiential art, Sougwen Chung's practice spans installation, sculpture, drawing, and performance. Her installations often involve multiple layers of light on intricate structures, taking a variety of media and transforming it into spatial experiences.

After graduating with a BFA in graphic design, and receiving an Interactive Art diploma from Hyper Island, she has gone on to participate in international festivals such as Mutek, OFFF, FITC, SXSW.

Website:

www.sougwen.com

Twitter:

@sougwen 

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Newly Formed Design Studio, Maxrelax Explores Social Harmony Within The Digital Age

Founded as a response to the hyper-productivity of today’s society, Maxrelax advocates refined irreverence through the thoughtful design of physical objects, digital media, and commissioned works. The newly formed multidisciplinary studio has combined professional experience in software, photography, film, and fabrication. Their projects strive to explore the potential harmonies between an individual and unforgiving cultural acceleration.

Website: 

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