New Aesthetics Grants

• Andy Allen
  Andy is highlighting the aesthetics and cultural impact of software.
• Luke Burgis
• Spencer Chang
  Spencer Chang is an artist and engineer making software you can touch and will create a participatory artwork that preserves and activates our traces across the Internet.
• Adam Davies and Jack Marsh
  Adam Davies and Jack Marsh (Not Quite Past) work on what they call the future's recovery of the past, starting with AI-designed Delft tiles.
• Alihan Dumankaya
  Alihan Dumankaya is an architect based in Barcelona who explores architectural languages and ways of creating places with more life.
• Megan Gafford
  I’m going to try to invent a new ornamental style of architecture through drawing, because just as writing is thinking, drawing is imagining.
• Mark Gorenstein
  œuvre editions aims to marry the traditional crafts of printing and bookmaking with modern technological and aesthetic developments.
• Ruben Hanssen
  A short documentary series on the YouTube channel The Aesthetic City, exploring the future of aesthetics, connecting time-tested principles with the latest technologies.
• Matthew Henderson
  My work explores how designing solely with code can take full advantage of digital fabrication and thereby enable a world where all precious things are unique.
• Chelsea Hodson
  Rose Books is an independent publisher in Sedona, Arizona, which will use the New Aesthetics grant to support the production and operations costs for publication of the next two titles.
• Rui Huang
• Zahra Jewanjee
  Zahra Jewanjee's multidisciplinary practice oscillates between painting, photography, sculpture, and found materials, echoing interconnectedness and interdependence within nature.
• Joseph Jutras
  Jutras is an advocate for beauty in our built environment and will use the grant towards founding a full-time classical architecture academy.
• Ben Lee
  My work leverages emerging 21st-century tools to move beyond default building practices, aiming to cultivate a vibrant architectural language that defines the visual character and aesthetic ambition of our generation.
• Bhumika Mukherjee
  My work tries to depict the projected abstraction of life as perceived by life.
• Karyn Nakamura
  Building a studio that translates between technology and culture through creative direction, experimental R&D, and technical production.
• Not Nothing
  Not Nothing publishes unfashionable work from hermits and informants, for human and non-human readers, while experimenting with how books are constructed so their discourse may outlast them.
• Sam Peitz
  We use AI in ways that flatten us to a common denominator. Experimenting with ones that do the opposite, stripping design back to its fundamentals.
• Hamzah Randhawa
  Creating a workshop/lab to prototype both temporary and permanent modular 3D-printed and CNC milled bespoke ceiling facades inspired by various cultural heritages.
• Michiel Rauws
  Power cables make San Francisco streets look like we live in the year 1900, but not for much longer.
• San Modern
  The grant will support our development of a silent, analog meditation timer—a first step toward our mission of bringing more care, wonder and aesthetic conviction back into everyday objects.
• Kristina Saint
  Kristina is a designer and furniture maker exploring what makes objects beautiful, well-made, and timeless; she plans to use her New Aesthetics grant to blend traditional craftsmanship with modern technology to produce objects meant to be cared for and kept for generations.
• Robin Sloan
  Robin is developing new print products at the physical-digital boundary; he will use the grant to expand his lab… and buy a lot of paper.
• Robbie Tilton
  AI First Computers: a series of hardware prototypes rethinking what personal computing should be when the software inside it can think.
• Stephanie Wakefield
  Wakefield is developing an experimental forum at the intersection of urbanism, art, and technology, dedicated to mapping emergent conditions of 21st century American urban life and generating conceptual, aesthetic, and speculative forms adequate to them.
• Atalanta Xanthe
  Atalanta Xanthe will be using the grant to translate her painted world of medieval-absurdist human and animal interactions into 3-D, creating public art that’s ornamental, beautiful and strange.
• Wendi Yan
  CGI documentary-fiction film on how fundamental science produces knowledge and images at scales beyond human perception.
• Michael Ziga
  My public sculpture project will place a new site-specific sculpture on the abandoned pedestal in Parc Buttes-Chaumont overlooking Paris, referencing the history of the park to build the future from fragments of the past.