Scholarships Available for The New Centre’s 2025 Programs

Scholarship applications for The New Centre’s certificate programs in Art & Curatorial Practice, History, Design & Worldmaking, Critical Philosophy and Transdisciplinary Studies will remain open until March 4th.

To apply, please complete the application form and submit a writing sample alongside a cover letter outlining your intellectual interests and financial need. Applicants from the Global South automatically receive a 50% scholarship on our affordable tuition fees. To learn about our scholarship options and read testimonials from our students, click here.

About The New Centre

Over the last ten years, The New Centre has remained independent of state and institutional funding, forging a path beyond academic or artistic orthodoxies and hype cycles, and gathering established and emerging thinkers to confront the most urgent questions of our time. Artworks featured in this announcement are for the first time by our researchers and alumni Jeff Perrott, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, and Rhea Myers.

Seminars & Workshops

Our Spring/Summer 2025 Season will feature Seminars and Workshops with contemporary and practical takes on Gilbert Simondon, Immanuel Kant, Kojin Karatani, Sigmund Freud, Peter Bürger, and others. They will also touch on topics such as war, worldmaking, thermoinformatics, theories of the avant-garde, art and music criticism, computer game programming, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of concepts. We will also take a self-reflexive look at the emergence of new institutions and the growing relevance of parallel academia.

These upcoming courses will be taught by Andrea Cetrulo & Adam Jones, Anna Longo, Cécile Malaspina, Christopher Daniel, Franziska Aigner & Austin Gross, Jason Mohaghegh, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joel White, J.P. Caron, Matt Hare, Matthew Donovan, Mohammad Salemy, Michael Marder, Reza Negarestani, Richard Hames, Rômulo Moraes, Sean Tatol, Thomas Moynihan, and Václav Janoščík.

Publishing Platform &&&

In 2024, our publishing platform &&& released a translation of Minor Bestiary by Eduarda Neves. Other recently published books include Model is the Message, a collection of writings from the Incredible Machines Conference 2.0, and Phenomenon & Difference, an aesthetic treatise by François Laruelle, translated by Lindsay Lerman. For 2025, we will reprint Logiciel: Six Seminars on Computational Reason by AA Cavia and launch a collaborative volume containing contributions from our Instructors and participants developed during our Seminar “What Now? Contemporary Art & the Post-Pandemic Conditions.” In addition, our &&& Journal will continue to publish original texts and translations of important short texts in philosophy, art, technology, and social thought. To submit a text, please get in touch with editors@thenewcentre.org.

Events

This year we also co-organized a conference titled Marxism & The Pittsburgh School together with The Centre for Philosophy of Education at University College London, with keynotes by Amanda Beech, Ray Brassier, and Vanessa Wills. The proceedings of this event can be found on our YouTube Channel. Our Programmer Reza Negarestani participated in multiple public programs around Europe, with lectures organized in partnership with institutions such as the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Pickle Bar in Berlin, Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP) in Porto, Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) in Delft, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

In 2025, we will open the first sessions of our Workshops to the public free of charge. Scholarships to these courses will then be awarded to participants demonstrating exceptional performance and engagement during those initial sessions.

Continuing our collaboration with Zeppelin University, we will be featured in their #NoFilter lecture series and produce a workshop towards our joint Summer School in 2026 focused on the question of planetary survival in the Age of artificial general intelligence. We will also collaborate with the Mayrit Biennial of Design and Architecture for its upcoming 2026 edition: our Organizer Mohammad Salemy and Board Member Eduarda Neves were recently appointed its main curators.

During our application period, we are offering two-year and one-year Memberships at highly reduced rates. Members can access our Archive, which contains 2000+ hours of content delivered by internationally renowned thinkers, and audit all our ongoing and upcoming seminars live. Existing Members can also take advantage of this offer, extending their current Membership beyond its expiry date. We also offer institutional memberships for university departments, museums, and galleries for a flat annual fee of 500 USD during our scholarship application period.

We are also offering our Seminar credits at reduced rates for this application period. Credits can be used towards upcoming Seminars until the end of our forthcoming Fall/Winter 2025-26 season.

Lastly, we congratulate some of our students and researchers on their recent achievements: Libby Hoffenberg for her acceptance into the painting MA program at the Royal College of Art, Walter Bolitto for his acceptance into the Computer Science PhD program at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger for being included in the 60th Venice Biennale’s curated exhibition.

 

Cover image credits: Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Rage is a machine in times of senselessness, 2024, Installation view, La Biennale de Venezia: Foreigners Everywhere, Arsenale Corderie, Venice, 2024. Photo: Francesco Allegretto.