About Neo Slow

Concept

Neo-Slow is a curated platform for unrealized ideas in art, technology, and creative research.

It documents concepts before they are built, written, or realized —
ideas that already exist, but remain in a latent state.

Neo-Slow archives these ideas as they emerge and creates an ecosystem where they can take root.

Why

Important ideas are often seen too late — or not at all.

We know them through fragments: notebooks, sketches, traces left behind.

Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks revealed concepts centuries after they were conceived.

Neo-Slow makes these ideas visible earlier —
before they depend on execution or recognition.

Unrealized ideas are not failures.
They are latent futures.

What Neo-Slow Does

Neo-Slow operates as a living structure:

•  Archive — documents unrealized ideas across disciplines

•  Connect — is a core principle: ideas gain meaning through their relationships

•  Sustain — sustains ideas in their latent state

It does not collect outcomes.
It holds potential.

Neo-Slow is not an archive of the past, but an infrastructure for the not-yet.

Initiated by

Neo-Slow is developed as an independent practice by Jung Me Chai, a curator working across contemporary art, technology, and research.

She is a curator and former director of DISKURS Berlin, and developed Busy Mars, an AI-based platform for discovering artists, curators, and cultural practitioners. Her work spans exhibitions, biennials, and institutional collaborations in Europe and Korea, alongside writing on contemporary art.

The platform is shaped through a hybrid mode of authorship:
a single curatorial direction, extended through close collaboration with AI systems as tools for thinking, structuring, and building.

This approach does not replace authorship — it expands its scale and capacity.

At its core, it remains human: defined by decisions about what to keep, what to connect, and what to make visible.