Mimesis Institute

We advance radical creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and community.

Mimesis Institute is an independent nonprofit founded in 2025 to support artistic research, public education, and responsible experimentation with emerging technologies. We build programs that help artists, technologists, and the public think—and make—together: not to worship the machine, but to understand the systems shaping our lives and to widen the space of what’s possible.

What we do

Research

We convene artists, researchers, and practitioners to investigate computational media as a cultural infrastructure: how models are trained, how interfaces guide attention, how incentives shape creative labor, and how power moves through datasets and platforms.

Public programs

We host workshops, talks, salons, and publishing projects that translate complex technical and cultural questions into shared public knowledge—useful, critical, and accessible without being simplistic.

Residencies and commissions

We support the production of new work—installations, performances, writing, tools, and experiments—that treat technology as material and the public as a collaborator rather than a market segment.

Why now

AI and networked computation are not “tools” in the neutral sense—they are institutions-in-the-making: new ways of organizing labor, aesthetics, and legitimacy. Mimesis Institute exists to ensure that creative practice can meet this moment with rigor, care, and ambition.

How to support

• Donate: sustain programs, scholarships, and artist support.
• Join: attend events, share work, contribute to our publishing.
• Partner: collaborate on public programs and research initiatives.

Advance radical creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and community.