Julia Kaganskiy

Julia Kaganskiy (born May 22, 1986) is a New York-based cultural producer. She is the director of NEW INC, the New Museum's incubator for art, technology, and design, and is known for starting the art, culture, and technology Meetup group ArtsTech in 2008.

Kaganskiy was born in Kiev, Ukraine, where her father was an engineer and her mother worked as a music teacher. She spent her childhood visiting her great-grandmother's family house in a small village outside of Kiev. At the age of six, her family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, where her parents encountered initial difficulty due to language barriers. After Kaganskiy's parents learned computer programming in the early 1990s, her family established a middle class household.

Kaganskiy graduated from Emerson College in 2007.

In 2008, Kaganskiy started the New York-based arts, culture, and technology Meetup group ArtsTech shortly after graduating college. She subsequently interned at the Museum of Modern Art's digital learning department in 2009, and started to curate pop-up shows for new media art.

In 2010, VICE Media invited Kaganskiy to join the Creators Project, an arts/technology publication founded in partnership with Intel, where she served as editor until 2014.

In 2014, the New Museum appointed Kaganskiy director of NEW INC, a cultural incubator launched to support artists, innovators, and entrepreneurs working in art, design, and technology.

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