As an artist, Sinclair is working with collaborators Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, Chris Johnson, Delroy Lindo and Jesse Williams to develop Question Bridge: 250; a video-mediated dialogue among 250 Americans that will launch as an exhibition in the fall of 2026. In addition she and collaborator Robert Sinclair are developing a Question Bridge companion project, 250 Dreams that asks: What if the most personal aspirations of 250 Americans, laid bare, could yield a collectively designed future capacious enough to hold all of them?

As a steward, Sinclair is developing Understory Arts, land-rooted creative initiative in Altadena, California dedicated to artist support, regenerative practice, and post-fire cultural recovery. Grounded in principles of wellness, ecological stewardship, and intergenerational exchange, Understory Arts offers space, time, and resources for innovative and meaningful creativity.

Alongside this work, she continues a robust creative-sector consulting practice that bridges imagination and impact, advising artists, institutions, and foundations navigating technology transformation, systems change, and emerging models of cultural sustainability.

Previously, she was the Director of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Labs Program, supporting artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, and technology. She collaborated with Chief Curator Shari Frilot in the development and platforming of landmark projects in the evolution of story, including experimentations with biotech, XR, IoT, and AI as storytelling mediums.

She also served as the Senior Director of Digital Innovation at The Music Center in Los Angeles, which is home to TMC Arts, Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Opera, and LA Phil. The campus includes Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Walt Disney Concert Hall — and beautiful outdoor spaces including Jerry Moss Plaza, The Blue Ribbon Garden, and Grand Park.

As a cultural steward, she served as an advisor or board member to organizations like the Peabody Awards Interactive Board, For Freedoms, NEW INC.’s ONX Studio, Civic Signals, MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality and Eyebeam. She taught as an Adjunct Professor in USC’s Media Arts + Practice program, where she developed the course “Making the Future: The Art & Practice of Creative Foresight.”

As a consultant, she built a distinguished client portfolio including organizations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (contributor to the “Democratizing the Imagination of our Future” report, where she was featured as one of 17 grantees); MacArthur Foundation (External Advisor working to strengthen American democracy through investments in independent journalism and media); Johns Hopkins University (consulting the Immersive Storytelling & Emerging Technology Center on applying the recommendations of Making a New Reality); For Freedoms (Community Engagement & Website Strategy for the 50 State Initiative); University of Florida’s College of the Arts (AI & Art Symposium program designer and facilitator); Sundance Institute’s collaboration with Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts Future of Culture initiative designed to explore the future of identity in an AI-integrated future; Hunter College’s Global Storytelling Initiative; and Rockefeller Foundation’s Food System Vision Prize. These partnerships demonstrate her unique ability to translate visionary thinking into practical strategies that serve the public good, making her a vital connector between the worlds of the arts, technology, education, and social impact.

As a speaker, author, and researcher, she worked with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program on a multi-year research project aimed at furthering equality in emerging media, which resulted in the well-received work “Making a New Reality,” published as a book and as articles on Immerse.news. The research sparked a four-year speaking tour reaching over 100,000 industry professionals at some of the most prestigious tech and media companies, philanthropic organizations, academic institutions, and social justice community initiatives. Her findings have influenced policy at major tech companies and cultural institutions, and have been used in curricula at universities like USC and NYU. Sundance Institute was both a resource and inspiration for this work.

Sinclair got her start in emerging media as an artist and producer on Question Bridge: Black Males. At Question Bridge, she and her collaborators — Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, and Bayeté Ross Smith — launched a project with an interactive website and curriculum; published a book; exhibited in over sixty museums and festivals; won the International Center for Photography’s 2015 Infinity Award for New Media; and was archived at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The project secured $1 million in earned revenue and funding, and has reached over 3 million people, serving as a catalyst for constructive dialogue that helps deconstruct stereotypes about Black male identity while creating opportunities for understanding and healing.

Her work has been recognized with honors including the YBCA 100 (Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, 2020), and her research and practice have been featured in major academic publications including Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life; Henry Jenkins’ Participatory Culture; and the National Endowment for the Arts’ Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium.

Earlier in her career, Sinclair was a Transmedia Producer at 42 Entertainment and worked on projects such as Legends of Alcatraz for J.J. Abrams, Mark of the Spider-Man, and Random Acts of Fusion; as Principal at Strategic Arts Consulting; as a member of the Strategic Initiatives at the Woodruff Arts Center; and the Artistic Director of Universal Arts. Her career began as a cast member of the Off-Broadway hit STOMP.

Sinclair holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Organizational Management from Georgia State University (Cum Laude) and a BFA in Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (Cum Laude), with a concentration in Experimental Theater. She graduated with honors from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

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Ahmed Best was a founding member of the acid jazz group, The Jazzhole and starred in the Broadway musical Stomp. He then went on to be the first CGI lead character in a motion picture starring as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. A graduate of the American Film Institute, Ahmed is an Ovation Award, LACC Award, Stage Raw Award, and an Annie award winner. He’s the Executive Producer of The DL Chronicles (GLAAD award winner for Best Anthology series), Co-Director of the web series Bandwagon, the Creator, Writer, and Director for the web series This Can’t Be My Life, and the sci-fi comedy The Nebula. Ahmed is addicted to culture and devoted to the future.

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Paisley Smith is a Canadian filmmaker & virtual reality creator from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the creator of Unceded Territories, an interactive VR film with artist and activist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2019. She also created Homestay, an interactive VR documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Homestay is the recipient of ‘Best XR’ for Change at the Games for Change Festival 2019. She is a 2021 Civic Media Fellow with the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC. During these times of extraordinary change, she is using her worldbuilding skills to design solutions for deep, meaningful connection and to imagine our Feminist Future. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Yasmin Elayat is an Emmy-award winning immersive director whose work pushes the boundaries of immersive narrative and participatory experiences. Yasmin is Co-Founder at Scatter, an immersive entertainment and software company, where she heads content, production and marketing initiatives. Scatter is recognized for pioneering the emerging language of Volumetric Filmmaking through its original volumetric film productions and its AR/VR creativity tools. Scatter’s first product Depthkit is the most widely used toolkit for accessible volumetric video capture. She is the co-creator of 18DaysInEgypt, an interactive documentary about the Egyptian Revolution that was lauded as one the Moments of Innovation in Participatory Documentary. Upcoming projects include Changing Same, a magical-realist, afro-futurist virtual reality film which explores the cyclical history of racial injustice in America. Changing Same is a co-production between RADA Film Group and Scatter in collaboration with the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s Co-Creation Studio and Executive Producers are POV and Fledgling Fund.

Website Link: http://elayat.com/

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Ari Melenciano is an artist, designer, creative technologist, researcher, and educator who is passionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of design and sentient experiences.

Currently, her research is a synthesis of human-computer interactive technologies, architecture, Afrocentric design practices, counterculture, audiovisuality, biomimicry, experimental pedagogy, and Black radical imagination

Ari is the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture and activism through collaborative research and practice.

She currently teaches creative technology and design at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU’s Dept. of Digital Photography and Imaging, Pratt Institute’s Communications Design school, and Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA program.

Link: https://www.ariciano.com/

Link to Afrotectopia: https://www.afrotectopia.org/

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Co-Creation in Emerging Media

Sarah Wolozin is director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab and co-principal investigator of Collective Wisdom, a hybrid field study that sets out to map, define, and shed light on co-creation methods within media. In her prior work as an award-winning media maker, she experimented with storytelling and emerging technology to make information and new technology more accessible and to shed light on alternative and unknown narratives. She is the founder and editorial director of Docubase, co-founder and editor-at-large of Immerse, and co-founder of the Co-Creation Studio. She cocurates a bi-annual conference on topics relevant to documentary and emerging media and is a frequent speaker at festivals and conferences.

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Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who empowers people to leverage bleeding edge technology to effect positive change in the world. She works as a Developer Evangelist for Contentful since May 2019, she is a fellow with Mozilla and MIT’s Co-Creation Studio for 2020. In 2019 she was an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama’s World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion. In 2018 she was awarded a McArthur and Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360 video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star (supported by the Google JUMP Creator program), exhibited at the Newark Museum and ASU in 2019. The non-profit she founded IDEA New Rochelle, in partnership with the New Rochelle Mayor’s Office, won the 2018 $1 Million Dollar Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge for their VR/AR Citizen toolkit to help the community co-design their city. She is a Sundance Institute Creative advisor and alum of their New Frontiers Story Lab and Festival(AR/VR/XR/AI tech section). In 2018 she was awarded the 100k Alternative Realities Prize for her Virtual Reality Project from Engadget and Verizon Media.

Amelia is the founder and host of wampum.codes podcast and the stupidhackathon.com. She is also the host and producer of the Contentful + Algolia Developer Podcast DreamStacks.

Amelia is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan.

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Salome Asega is an artist and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY. Salome has participated in residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and Recess. She has exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale, MoMA, Carnegie Library, August Wilson Center, Knockdown Center, and more. She has also given presentations and lectures at Performa, EYEO, Brooklyn Museum, MIT Media Lab, and more. Salome is currently a Ford Foundation Technology Fellow landscaping new media arts infrastructure. She is also the Director of Partnerships at POWRPLNT, a digital art collaboratory in Brooklyn. Salome received her MFA from Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology where she also teaches.

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Jessica Clark is the founder and director of Philadelphia-based media strategy, production, and forecasting firm Dot Connector Studio. The company works with makers, funders and academics to research and develop new and inclusive forms of social impact media. Current and recent clients include, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guild of Future Architects, Democracy Fund, the Ford Foundation, Media Impact Funders, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Internet Archive, Knight Foundation, and others. In collaboration with clients and partners, Clark produces inventive publications, newsletters, tools and workshops such as Immerse.news, the Making a New Reality Toolkit (August 2020), and the Impact Pack.

Currently Clark has a research affiliation at MIT’s OpenDocLab, and previously she’s held fellowships at USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center and the New America Foundation. From 2014 through mid-2018, Clark served as the research director for Media Impact Funders, a network of foundations that support public interest media. From 2011–2014, she worked as AIR’s media strategist, focusing on national public media transformation production Localore. From 2007–2011 she led the Future of Public Media Project at American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact.

Over the course of this work, she has led research and convenings with organizations including NPR, PBS, and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (The New Press, 2010), Clark served as the executive editor at national news magazine In These Times and has written regularly for such publications as MediaShift and The American Prospect. She holds a BA/MA from the University of Chicago. Learn more: dotconnectorstudio.com

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Kamal Sinclair is making the world more beautiful as the Executive Director of the Guild of Future Architects; supporting independent artists as a Senior Consultant for Sundance Institute’s Future of Culture Initiative, and making art through a family creative practice at Sinclair Futures. She also serves as an External Advisor to the MacArthur Foundation’s Journalism & Media Program and as a board member of MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality. Previously, she served as the Director of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Labs Program for seven years, which supports artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, and technology.

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