Salome Asega is an artist and researcher exploring models for technology and its development that are cooperative, distributed, and people-centered. Asega is director of NEW INC, an art, design, and technology incubator program at the New Museum that offers artists professional development, mentorship, and shared workspace. She also sits on the boards of Eyebeam, the National Performance Network, and POWRPLNT.

She has participated in residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, the New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and Recess and has exhibited at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, MoMA, the Carnegie Library, the August Wilson Center, the Knockdown Center, and more. She has given presentations and lectures at festivals and academic institutions, including Performa, Eyeo, the Brooklyn Museum, MIT Media Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, Gather Stockholm, and New York University.

Asega received her MFA from Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology, where she teaches classes on speculative design and participatory design methodologies.