NEW INC, New Museum
Raul Zbengheci is currently the Deputy Director at NEW INC, an incubator for people working at the intersection of art, design, and technology. He is in charge of public programming, operations, and He co-conceived, curated, and organized DEMO, NEW INC’s annual festival. DEMO2024 took place June 2024 and was the festival’s second iteration. Click here to see the NYT feature on the festival.
As the first museum-led cultural incubator, NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform for furthering the New Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Now in Year 8, 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 New Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Director, Lisa Phillips and Deputy Director, Karen Wong in 2014.