US delegation
About the delegation
The US delegation brings together professionals from a diverse range of cultural and creative ecosystems across the United States, including New York, Los Angeles, Wilmington, Palm Springs and Salt Lake City. Representing institutions and organisations working across digital culture, creative technology, performing arts, public art and experimental practices, the delegation reflects the diversity of the US cultural and innovation landscape and offers opportunities for international exchange, collaboration and partnerships across disciplines and territories.
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NEW INC
As the first museum-born cultural incubator, NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform to further the New Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Now in its thirteenth year, NEW INC’s membership model continues to support a diverse range of creative practitioners with a values-driven program and safe space for gathering and developing new creative projects and businesses. In 2020, NEW INC launched ONX Studio, an XR accelerator for artists, in partnership with the Onassis Foundation.
Salome Asega
Deputy Director of Strategy and Innovation and Director of NEW INC
Salome Asega is the Deputy Director of Strategy and Innovation and Director of NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator for creative practitioners working across art, design, and technology. Asega is also an artist, researcher, and educator working between participatory design and emerging technologies. Prior to joining NEW INC in 2021, Asega was the inaugural New Media Art Research Fellow for Creativity and Free Expression at the Ford Foundation, where she supported artists and organizations in the new media arts ecosystem. She is also a cofounder of POWRPLNT, a digital art collaboratory based in Brooklyn that offers free and sliding-scale workshops run by established media artists. Since 2015, Asega has been teaching studio and design methodology courses in the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons School of Design.
Google Labs / Odd Kid
Henry Daubrez
filmmaker, creative director and founder
Thalian Hall Center for Performing Arts
Thalian Hall was built in 1858 and has been in constant use since that time. It features playing spaces including a 150 seat black box theater as well as the historic MainStage, a 550 seat proscenium theater preserved to look as it did when it opened 168 years ago. Our newest innovation, the Hippodrome, will be a 300 seat and 360 degree projection theater and is currently under construction.
Bradford Brown
Public Art Company
We curate, art direct and produce large-scale art for campuses, developers, and public space.
Raffi Lehrer
Founder
Raffi Lehrer is the founder of Public Art Company, a Los Angeles studio that curates, art directs, and produces large-scale public art. For the past decade he has led the curatorial side of the Coachella Art Program, commissioning work with artists including Francis Kéré, Edoardo Tresoldi, Sabine Marcelis, and Phillip K Smith III for audiences upwards of 125,000 people per weekend. That curatorial work has produced a permanent collection of ten works sited in parks and civic spaces across the Coachella Valley, with five more in process. More recently, Public Art Company has brought the same approach to corporate campuses, including a multi-piece kinetic installation by Vincent Leroy for Snap Inc.'s Santa Monica headquarters. Lehrer serves on the boards of the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation and Fulcrum Arts and is based in Los Angeles.
ELEMENTAL
THE ELEMENTAL is a contemporary arts center dedicated to public programming, contemporary art, and youth arts education, supporting regional and international artists working at the intersection of art, environment, philosophy, and science. We present cutting-edge exhibitions, artist talks, performances, film screenings, international artist residencies, and public receptions, alongside our youth educational program New Generation Arts.
Cristopher Cichocki
Independent Artist
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