Guest Artists

Salome Asega

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About

Salome Asega is an artist and researcher born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work invites the playful and absurd to critique the speed in which technology develops and poses new consentful tech futures leveraging the power of collective imagination. Salome is a 2022 United States Fellow, an inaugural cohort member of the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab sponsored by Prada, and a co-founder of POWRPLNT, a Brooklyn digital arts lab for teens. Salome has participated in residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and Recess and has exhibited at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, MoMA, Carnegie Library, August Wilson Center, Knockdown Center, and more.

Salome is the Director of NEW INC at New Museum and recently completed a 4 year Ford Foundation Technology Fellowship where she supported artists, researchers, and organizations in the new media arts ecosystem. She sits on the boards of Eyebeam, National Performance Network and School for Poetic Computation. Salome received her MFA from Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology where she teaches classes on speculative design and participatory design methodologies.