Upcoming Talks
Past Talks
Demo Day 2022
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Demo Day is NEW INC’s annual showcase previewing the exciting creative projects and enterprises developed during the year. Sponsored by Meta Open Arts, this year’s event features twelve presentations from NEW INC’s Year 8 members, and will explore topics ranging from cursed Internet aesthetics and immersive virtual design to community-oriented creative practice and radical collective economics. Now in its eighth year, Demo Day continues its tradition of introducing cutting-edge thinking to an audience of funders, creative directors, curators, and industry leaders.
May 7, 2022
Studio Check In
Studio Museum in Harlem
Studio Check In was born out of a desire to tell the stories of the people who work behind the scenes at different arts and cultural institutions.
In this Studio Check In, Ilk Yasha speaks with Ariana Faye Allensworth, an artist, researcher, and cultural strategist based in New York City.
April 2022
How to Lead by Empowering Others with Frances Frei and Lauren Collins. Moderated by Ariana Allensworth.
IDEO U's Creative Confidence Podcast
The most important thing you do as a leader is build others up. Join us for a conversation on human-centered leadership with IDEO’s Lauren Collins and Harvard Business School Professor Frances Frei. We’ll discuss how to level up your leadership practice by honing the skills and mindsets needed to empower your team and organization
Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 12pm ET
Artists in Conversation for the Undesign the Redline @ Barnard Symposium
Barnard College
Undesign the Redline @ Barnard is an interactive exhibition that combines history, art, and storytelling with community outreach and collaboration. The Symposium is an opportunity to learn and explore more about the history and legacies of redlining in relation to inequity at a campus, local, and national level, as well as people and projects who are working toward making more inclusive, just, and equitable communities. For the Artists in Conversation panel, three artists (Ariana Allensworth, Christopher Lopez, and Ayling Zulema Domínguez) present a visual portfolio of their work inspired by redlining histories that engage photography, storytelling techniques, and social history mapping.
Friday, November 19, 2021 at 3:45pm ET
Radical Mapping: Where Is Home on the Map? Featuring Walis Johnson, Barika Williams, and Ariana Allensworth. Moderated by Dr. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani.
The Laundromat Project
How have our experiences of our homes and local surroundings been impacted by forces like housing policy, gentrification, and redlining throughout history? Further: how can uncovering these histories lead us to shape positive social change in our communities? This event will bring together artists, storytellers, and housing experts for a rich exploration and small group discussions on the places we call home.
Friday, April 16, 2021 at 4:30pm ET
Future Memory & Spatial Justice: A Conversation with Ashley Jane Lewis, Ariana Allensworth, & Eric Moed
NEW INC
NEW INC and Pioneer Works Invite you to a conversation that explores spatial divides throughout time, emerging practices to re-claim dwellings and public areas, and the role of collective imagination in liberation.
Wednesday, April 14 from 5-6:15pm ET
Collaboration and Care in Mapping Displacement
Barnard College
As part of the Undesign the Redline exhibit at Barnard college, two long-time members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (Terra Graziani and Ariana Faye Allensworth) facilitate a reading group session about the use of media and technology to liberate narratives of displacement, dispossession, and resistance from the forces that flatten them.
Friday, March 26, 2021 from 1-2:30pm
Landlord Tech Roundtable
Pioneer Works
Moderator and Technology Resident Ariana Faye Allensworth brings together housing activists Erin McElroy and Fabian Rogers to discuss the merging of technology and real estate Industries through what's known as landlord tech or residential property technology.
Saturday, March 20, 2021 from 1-2:30pm EST
Disrupting Gentrification in NYC
apexart
How has the COVID-19 global pandemic accelerated real estate speculation, predatory landlord practices, and displacement? A panel organized as part of the Imagining De-Gentrified Futures exhibition curated by Betty Yu.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 from 6:30-8pm EST
Create Change Artist-in-Residence Final Presentations
The Laundromat Project
Culminating presentations by The LP's 2020 Artists-in-Residence. Throughout the year, each artist has shaped rigorous, collaborative, and dynamic place-based projects.
November 12, 2020 at 6:30pm
Shifting Power through Counter-Narratives and Data Justice
KADIST
Presented in collaboration with e-flux, Ways of Reading is an exploratory day of talks, interventions, and performances featuring a multidisciplinary set of artists and thinkers. The symposium examines how forms of information describe, prescribe, organize, and even misrepresent reality.
February 1, 2020 from 11am-7pm EST
e-flux, New York, NY