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New Museum appoints Salome Asega as Director of NEW INC Salome Asega. Photo by Jeremy Grier. NEW YORK, NY .- Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum, announced today that Salome Asega will become director of NEW INC, the New Museums cultural incubator they co-founded in 2013. In September 2021, NEW INC will welcome members to its eighth yearlong cycle. Asega will oversee one hundred creative entrepreneurs, a community of six hundred alumni, and a distinguished group of mentors, steering plans for future growth. Asega joins from the Ford Foundation, where she has served as the inaugural New Media Art Research Fellow for Creativity and Free Expression (CFE) for the past four years. The CFE program supports arts and culture, journalism and media, and documentary film through grants, convenings, networking, and advising. In her role at Ford, she supported research to define hybrid approaches in the art and technol ....