NEW INC Y13 Open Call: Member Workshare
NEW INC’s Open Call is live from February 2–March 2, 2026!
Ever wonder what types of projects are incubated at NEW INC? From archival experiments documenting our evolving city architectures to sensory studies of speculative materials, our members are advancing creative research across a variety of disciplines. Join current Members for our monthly Workshare, works-in-progress presentations for Members to receive feedback from peers, mentors, and the public.
About Presenters:
Edward Hsu is an architect and leads Work by Edward Hsu, a design and research studio in New York City. The studio collaborates with forward-thinking individuals, community partners, and institutions to create playful and generous spaces. Hsu draws inspiration from art, nature, and the built environment to imagine new and ever more thoughtful ways to see, shape, and care for the world around us. Learn more
Allie E.S. Wist is an artist and writer working across environmental humanities, sensory studies, and speculative thought. Her practice spans photography, video, edible and olfactory artifacts, radio broadcasts, and installations that often question the binary between the human and the “natural” in the Anthropocene. Her work draws on feminist and New Materialist scholarship to question how scientific knowledge is produced and to explore the interplay between purity politics and toxicity through cultural objects.
Wist’s recent projects have engaged with deep time, anthropogenic geology, and the ritual, aesthetic, and cultural potentials of postindustrial ruins. Wist is a PhD candidate in the interdisciplinary Arts program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and her work has been exhibited in the Honolulu Biennial, MIT and the Nobel Prize Museum, and featured in the New York Times and NPR. She previously worked for a decade in food media, including as a photo editor for Bon Appétit. Learn more
Amy Xiaofan Jiang is a designer, artist, and curator based between New York and Shanghai. In 2022, she founded Underground Art and Design (UAAD), a platform dedicated to uplifting experimental practices across art, design, and emerging technologies. Anchored in New York, UAAD has engaged both local and international communities through its exhibitions, publications, new media performances, panels, and collaborations with institutions and brands, prioritizing worldbuilding as a curatorial practice that resists dominant narratives.
Rooted in the spirit of the underground—where resistance and mutual aid are inseparable—UAAD’s current research explores new models of community engagement, resource sharing, and cooperative governance toward an alternative creative infrastructure.
Independently, Jiang’s practice weaves participatory research, worldbuilding, and multi-sensory design, translating complex ideas and imaginaries into shared, resonant cultural experiences. Learn more
About NEW INC:
As the first museum-born cultural incubator, NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform to further the New Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Now in its twelfth year, 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 the New Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Director Lisa Phillips and former Deputy Director Karen Wong in 2014.