Mission

NMN creates immersive experiences, public tools, and creative technologies designed to shift perception, spark collective imagination, and expand technological agency.

Context / Problem

We live in a culture shaped by extractive systems—where technology maximizes profit over people, art is sidelined as decoration, and the public is reduced to users, consumers, and data points.

Most people lack meaningful agency over the technologies shaping their lives, and the dominant media landscape suppresses rather than expands collective imagination.

Premise

To shift systems, you must shift paradigms.

To shift paradigms, you must shift perception.

And perception shifts through experience.

Art is not decoration—it is experiential technology capable of altering what people believe is possible.

Inputs

(NMN’s core activities and resources)

  • Immersive installations & interactive environments

  • Custom creative tools and public interfaces

  • Artist development programs

  • Strategic partnerships with aligned institutions

  • Cultural storytelling and editorial work

  • Values-aligned sponsorships

Outputs

(What NMN puts into the world)

  • Public-facing art installations that disrupt routine perception

  • Tools that make systems visible or shift individual agency

  • Gatherings and rituals that cultivate collective imagination

  • Educational frameworks that equip artists to use tech ethically

  • A recognizable aesthetic and cultural signal grounded in values

Short-Term Outcomes

(What people experience or begin to feel)

  • A jolt of awareness: “I’ve never seen it that way before.”

  • Emotional engagement with systemic problems—not just intellectual abstraction

  • A sense of technological possibility: “I didn’t know I could use tech like this.”

  • A re-enchantment with embodied, collective experience

  • A questioning of norms and platforms previously accepted as inevitable

Medium-Term Outcomes

(What begins to shift in people, communities, and institutions)

  • People begin creating, not just consuming, with technology

  • Institutions seek collaboration with NMN to reimagine their public engagement

  • Artists become systems thinkers and toolmakers, not just image-makers

  • Sponsors and patrons fund paradigm-shifting cultural projects, not just visibility

  • A local-to-global ecosystem forms around ethical, immersive, experiential tech

Long-Term Impact

(What NMN ultimately exists to cause)

  • A culture that values art as technology—capable of shaping systems, not just representing them

  • A redefined relationship between people and technology—based in agency, embodiment, and ethics

  • A growing movement of artists, technologists, and citizens designing from a post-extractive paradigm

  • A shift in public perception of what technology is for

  • A re-infrastructuring of cultural power: from platform-driven manipulation to participatory transformation