Rashaad Newsome

Working at the intersection of art, film, performance, music, computer programming and community organizing, Rashaad Newsome creates counter-hegemonic work that shifts between social practice and abstraction. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation and collage as conceptual and technical methods, he constructs a new visual, performance, sonic, machine learning, and literary language highlighting the immaterial and material expressivity of Black American life. Recent awards include the 2022 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award for Computer Animation and a 2022 Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator for his work Assembly.