About

Mimesis Institute is an independent nonprofit institution founded in 2025. We support artistic research, public education, and interdisciplinary collaboration across art, technology, and the humanities.

We do not treat technology as destiny. We treat it as a negotiated cultural reality—built by humans, shaped by incentives, and therefore open to critique, redesign, and imagination.

Our approach

Art as research

We value art as a method for making complex systems legible—felt, argued with, and reconfigured. The Institute supports practices that test ideas in public: through performance, installation, writing, and tool-making.

Technical literacy without tech evangelism

We aim to create conditions where artists and publics can understand the mechanics of contemporary computation (models, data, interfaces, governance) without being forced into boosterism. We like clarity. We also like nuance.

Public benefit

Our programs are built for charitable and educational purposes: expanding access, building public knowledge, and supporting cultural production that serves communities rather than extraction.

What we fund

• Artist stipends and production support
• Workshops and public learning programs
• Research collaborations and publications
• Accessibility practices (e.g., captions, transcripts, alternative interfaces)

What we don’t do

• Sell user data
• Run “AI hype” programming as marketing
• Treat artists as content farms