Collaboration, Social Media, Exchange in the Art World: Sharon Louden in conversation with the dynamic JiaJia Fei and Antwaun Sargent about their dynamic high-profile friendship, their presence on social media and their take on the art world today.
JiaJia Fei is a digital strategist with a decade of experience working at the intersection of digital marketing, branding, web, mobile, and social media content strategy for art and culture—making museums and cultural organizations more accessible through technology. She currently serves as the Director of Digital at the Jewish Museum in New York City, where she became the founding director of the Museum’s first digital department in 2016. Prior to joining the Jewish Museum, JiaJia served as Associate Director, Digital Marketing at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, bringing modern and contemporary art to a global online audience through award-winning digital initiatives. JiaJia received her BA in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College, and has lectured on the impact of art and technology worldwide.
Twitter: @VAJIAJIA Instagram: @vajiajia
Antwaun Sargent is a writer and critic living and working in New York City. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, Interview, W, Vogue, Aperture, Vice and various other publications. He frequently contributes to museum and gallery publications and this year he has written catalogue essays on artists Ed Clark, Mickalene Thomas, and Deborah Roberts. Recently he co-curated the Aperture Foundation exhibition, “The Way We Live Now,” and has lectured and been in conversation with artists at Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Yale University, Brown University and various other
Twitter: @Sirsargent Instagram: @sirsargent