NVI treats value as one of the central public questions of the coming decades.
Value is shaped by systems of measurement, exchange, judgment, governance, legitimacy, attention, care, computation, and utility. These systems decide what counts, who is heard, what is rewarded, what is excluded, what can be converted, and what remains outside existing forms of recognition.
Today, value is increasingly organized through AI, automation, tokenization, metrics, rankings, financial instruments, institutional criteria, and algorithmic decision systems. These tools can make value more visible, transferable, scalable, and actionable. They also intensify a deeper question: how can societies work with values that are incommensurable, incomputable, incalculable, or resistant to utilitarian reduction?
New Value Institute develops artistic intelligence as a way to work with this question in public. Artistic intelligence is the capacity to create forms, situations, and protocols through which complex values can be perceived, tested, negotiated, contested, and transformed.
NVI begins from Live Art because artistic situations can construct temporary institutions with real rules. Within these situations, value can be acted on before it becomes a price, a score, a ranking, a KPI, a token, or an algorithmic objective. Artistic practice becomes a testing ground for forms of judgment, negotiation, legitimacy, governance, and exchange that existing systems often struggle to hold.
The institute is practice-based and research-driven. It works through artistic works, labs, writings, archives, protocols, and collaborations. Its purpose is to develop new value frameworks for a world where economic, technological, ecological, and human systems are increasingly entangled.
At its core, NVI asks what should count, who has the authority to judge, how legitimacy is produced, and how future institutions might be built around complex forms of value.
