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NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator, is a shared workspace and professional development program designed to support creative practitioners working in the areas of art, technology, and design. Conceived by the New Museum in 2013, the incubator is a not-for-profit platform that furthers the Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Launching in summer 2014, NEW INC will provide a collaborative space for a highly selective, interdisciplinary community of one hundred members to investigate new ideas and develop a sustainable practice.

NEW INC was cofounded by Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum. A special incubator advisory board is chaired by New Museum Trustee David B. Heller.

Julia Kaganskiy, Director of NEW INC, is a recognized cultural producer across the art and technology fields. She previously served as Global Editor of the Creators Project, a partnership between VICE Media Group and Intel, and founded #ArtsTech Meetup, a group that brings together professionals from New York City’s museums, galleries, art-related start-ups, and digital artists. She has been cited by Fast Company (2011) and Business Insider (2013) as one of the most influential women in technology and profiled in the 2012 AOL/PBS series MAKERS honoring women leaders.

Animal and clinical studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound stimulation (LIPUS) in the acceleration of the normal healing process of bone fractures, so industrial designer Deniz Karasahin decided to make use of that process.

Karasahin created his Osteoid, a custom-fitted, 3D printed medical cast with an attachable LIPUS bone stimulator system.

The design for the cast was based on a clinical trial of sixty-seven closed or grade-I open fractures of the tibial shaft. Karasahin decided to incorporate the ultrasound stimulating device as an adjunct to conventional treatment with a decidedly old-school method – the cast. ...

Une chaire pour la conception de services innovants à l’ère de l’informatique ubiquitaire est en cours de signature.

Le projet pédagogique de L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique est porté par l’ambition de développer une culture de recherche appliquée pour la conception de produits et services innovants centrés sur les usages. Il est aussi basé sur la volonté de favoriser une innovation responsable, partagée avec les autres métiers de l’entreprise et pertinente sur le plan économique et environnemental.

Trois grandes directions pour la projection professionnelle de nos étudiants et la reconnaissance du design, nous paraissent prometteuses : une spécialisation de recherche par le design au sein de nos programmes thématiques de cycle master, la recherche expérimentale par le projet au sein de design labs, le partenariat industriel et institutionnel comme terrain pour l’innovation.

Mais les innovations sociales et économiques apportées par les démarches de design ne renvoient pas seulement à de nouveaux produits, elles découlent également de nouvelles connaissances et compétences qui s’acquièrent dans la durée.

C’est dans ce contexte que l’école a souhaité développer une chaire sur les environnements connectés, thématique ouverte à la pluridisciplinarité au sein des laboratoires READi (Recherches Expérimentales Appliquées en Design d’interactivité) et Ville durable (Recherches Expérimentales Appliquées en Design urbain).

SUDLAB is a hi-tech openlab devoted to communication and artistic and cultural research. An open venue created for stimulating integrated design and creative interaction. An ideal platform for promoting the very best of glocal art and culture. A cross-disciplinary research and social workshop.

All SUDLAB activities are actively founded on the   principles of free association and cooperation, as well as on the creation and shearing of quality ideas and contents. Arts reunited, cross-disciplinary and international comparison, research and skill shearing, for worldwide collective communication involving not only art, but also personal competences and ideas. As a matter of fact, creative and geographical seclusion often keep southern creative artists away from spotlight.  In addition, even the best ideas die out if there are not supported by an organized group including the most talented people, the strongest motivations, specialist skills and quality projects, along with the resources needed to realize them . 

SUDLAB is a venue that welcomes all those who wish to share their interests, offering them a network of top ranking Websites on the leading search engines, specific media and communication know-how, software and hardware tools, high profile professional relations for exchange and interaction and a physical location for meeting, imagining, designing and realizing together artistic-cultural events and projects of superior standing. 

If SUDLAB's ideals reflect your owns, and you would like to take part in our projects and our network by joining an open, culture- oriented and dynamic community, please contact us for further information.

Visual System is a Paris-based artist collective who specialize in the medium of light, pulling from the fields of architecture, music production, programming, and graphic design in order to create their large-scale, glowing works.

Un fascinant voyage dans le futur avec le designer Philippe Starck, à la rencontre de visionnaires qui inventent le monde de demain. Une expérience de télévision augmentée en simultané sur le Web, les tablettes et les smartphones.

"Il y a 4 millions d'années, nous ressemblions à une amibe". Si l'homme a, depuis, physiquement évolué, qu'en est-il de ses avancées techniques et en quoi celles-ci modèlent déjà le monde de demain ? C'est la question à laquelle Philippe Starck s'est proposé de répondre, s'entourant de chercheurs et experts afin de nourrir sa réflexion. Décryptage du génome, transhumanisme, sortie de l'économie du carbone : le designer et visionnaire nous invite à un captivant voyage dans notre propre futur.

Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad (Israeli, b. 1951) stands out for his daredevil curiosity about technology and materials and for the versatile nature of his work. Trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and at London's Architectural Association, Arad has produced an outstanding array of innovative objects over the past twenty-five years, from almost unlimited series of objects to carbon fiber armchairs and polyurethane bottle racks. He has also designed memorable spaces, some plastic and tactile, others ethereal and digital. ...

Revolutionise your design practice today with the latest issue (228) of Computer Arts magazine, an innovation special packed with all the industry insight, advice and technique you need to drive your design work forward.

Meet the creative pioneers changing the face of design in this months' Special Report, which explores why innovation matters through the lens of five inspirational projects.

And discover the five hot tech innovations that will revolutionise your design projects - plus expert advice from The Future Laboratory's Peter Firth on how to use this emerging tech more effectively in your work.

Philip Beesley is a talented practitioner of architecture and digital media art, as well as being a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is currently exhibiting his spectacular ‘Epiphyte Membrane’ installation at Berlin’s Opernwerkstätten as part of the Olympus OM-D: Photography Playground. Philip was kind enough to give us a fascinating insight into the piece when we met him; we think you’ll be left totally inspired after reading this Spotlight interview!

Patten Studio creates new interactive experiences and user interfaces. We take an interdisciplinary approach, combining skill in interaction design and graphic design with expertise in software and electrical engineering to meet the needs of each project. We develop interactive surfaces such as tables and walls for public spaces such as museums, as well as for industrial applications. We also develop and license custom sensing technologies for interactive applications. We are committed to changing the way people think about computers by creating innovative alternatives to the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse.

The BCL is an artistic research framework that aims to explore the relations, congruences and différances of biological and cultural codecs through artistic interventions, social hacking and basic research. BCL is interested in the relationship between art and science in general, and between media art and bio science in particular. The interest is not so much in the new possibilities of artistic expressions, that the emerging biotechnologies make possible, but rather in the social implications that the widespread adoption and application of biotechnology will create. The research of the BCL is speculative and forward-looking, whereas the projects are firmly situated in the present social context and current climate. The projects aim not to be simply answers to real problems, but rather aim to be explorations of the context and systems behind the artistically and socially relevant issues.

From the whiff of your first pet to the smell of that seaside holiday, the Madeleine captures the scent of your memories

With the one-click simplicity of Flickr and Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, recording our memories has never been easier. But with such ease has come overload. More than seven billion photos are added to Facebook every month, while 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. We are drowning in a sea of hastily snapped images, our entire existence flattened into a scrolling feed of frozen frames.

"We take pictures of everything and load it all online, to the point where it is all infinitely replicable and disposable," says designer Amy Radcliffe, whose MA project at Central Saint Martins set out to bring a more meaningful sensory dimension to storing our favourite memories. ...

Interdisciplinary network of designers, architects, computer artists, coders and engineers lead nerdworking to divert production. The core team emphasize on designing spaces for new experiences between human, machine and code.

nerdworking's network comprises several multidisciplinary artists, illustrators, designers, real-time animation designers, coders, mechatronics, robotics and electronics professionals.

The musical table installed 504 volumes on the top plate, and there are 504 musical box movements which play only a single sound in the point of the 5-m electric line extended from there. The motor revolving speed of the musical boxes are adjusted by the volume of the table, and the musical boxes play sound at random.