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Salome Asega is a contemporary American artist and the director of New Inc.,[1] an incubator for art, design, and technology founded by the New Museum in 2014.[2]
Asega was born and raised in Las Vegas to Ethiopian American parents.[3] She received a BA in social practice at New York University's Gallatin School, and her MFA from Parsons at the New School in Design and Technology, where she has also taught courses.[4]
In 2014, Asega and artists Sable Elyse Smith, Taja Cheek, Nadia Williams, and Ariana Faye Allensworth organized a public action at Kara Walker's A Subtlety, a sculptural installation at the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn. Titled "The Kara Walker Experience: WE ARE HERE," the action intended to address the lack of people of color in the installation's viewership.[5]
Asega joined artists Angelina Dreem and Anibal Luque to help found and develop POWRPLNT, a digital art collaboratory in Bushwick.[6] In 2017 it was announced that Asega would serve as the inaugural tech fellow for the Creativity and Free Expression team at the Ford Foundation, where she helped inform funding strategies about the intersection of art and technology.[7]
At New Inc., where Asega became Director in 2021,[8] she expanded the organization's annual Demo Day into Demo Festival, a multi-day festival and exhibition spotlighting experimental artists, designers, and technologists.[9]
Asega's artistic practice is based in social practice and new media. Of her work, she has said, "Output isn't as important as process to me because it's in developing a process that we can refine and iterate on, asking better questions."[10]
Working with artist Ayodamola Okunseinde, Asega has developed Iyapo Repository, an archive of imagined and realized artifacts for "the future for individuals of African descent."[11] In 2022, Asega premiered RATs at Nuit Blanche Toronto,[12] a full-scale monster-truck modeled to look like a rat; the work functioned as a critique of AI-informed Risk Assessment Tools. RATs later showed at the Munch Triennale in Oslo. Asega has held residencies at organizations including the Laundromat Project, Eyebeam, and Pioneer Works.
In 2021 Asega was listed on Apollo Magazine's 40 under 40 list.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ Rose, Frank (June 14, 2024). "Watching the Future Hatch in the New Museum Incubator." The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/arts/design/new-inc-new-museum-incubator.html
- ^ Chiaverina, John (September 29, 2023). "At Times Square PUNK SHOW, the New Museum’s Cultural Incubator Shows Off Its Versatility." Artnews. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/times-square-new-york-punk-show-new-museums-cultural-incubator-new-inc-1234680698/
- ^ Ologundudu, Folasade (November 1, 2024). "Salome Asega Has a Vision for New York Creatives". Elephant Magazine.
- ^ Admassu, Emanuel (February 5, 2024). "Salome Asega: “We need to build digital brawn to ensure we will see ourselves in the future.” Guernica Magazine. https://www.guernicamag.com/salome-asega-we-need-to-build-digital-brawn-to-ensure-we-will-see-ourselves-in-the-future/
- ^ #TeamEBONY (July 2, 2014). "We Are Here:Black Women Claim Their Space at Kara Walker's Controversial Sugar Sphinx Show". Ebony Magazine.
- ^ Asega, Salome; Trouillot, Terence (August 24, 2021). "Salome Asega On Fostering a Community for Creatives".
- ^ Vallejo, Catalina; Asega, Salome (September 7, 2022). "Art, Tech, and Power: An Interview with Salome Asega". Just Tech. Social Science Research Council.
- ^ News Desk (July 1, 2021). "NEW MUSEUM TAPS SALOME ASEGA TO LEAD CULTURAL INCUBATOR NEW INC". Artforum.
- ^ Ologundudu, Folasade (November 1, 2024). "Salome Asega Has a Vision for New York Creatives". Elephant Magazine.
- ^ Wong, Karen (March 5, 2024). "For NEW INC Director Salome Asega, Creator of Rat-Shaped Monster Trucks and Afrofuturist Living Museums, the Stranger the Project the Better". Cultured Magazine.
- ^ "Iyapo Repository". iyaporepository.org.
- ^ Collins, Leah (Sep 27, 2022). "Nuit Blanche Toronto is back! Plan your night out with these insider tips".
- ^ Schwarz, Gabrielle (September 20, 2021). "The Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech in focus: Salome Asega". Apollo Magazine.