EventsCommon Ground
A New Philosophy of Museums
Thursday, January 21, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Entrepreneur Yoram Roth and architect Mitchell Joachim join Rail Editor-at-Large Paul D. Miller for a conversation on the unexpected intersections of art and tech, and reimagining the future of museums. We conclude with a reading by writer Alissa Quart.
In this Talk
Yoram Roth

Yoram Roth (born 1968 in Berlin, Germany) is a life-long entrepreneur with a focus on the creative, real estate and the hospitality sector. He has lived in New York and Los Angeles for over 20 years, and returned to his hometown in 2007. Yoram is the Chairman of the Board and majority shareholder in Fotografiska Holding AB. He is the CEO of Roth Holding GmbH and is an investor in two media companies. He is now also the CEO of Roth & Sohn GmbH. Together with his father Yoram Roth acquired First Artists, a major motion picture film company which owned and licensed rights to a various movie libraries beside the films produced by its famous founders. Yoram also founded D’Vision Records, one of Berlin’s seminal record labels.
Mitchell Joachim

Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and an Associate Professor at NYU. Formerly, he was an architect at the offices of Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships with TED, Moshe Safdie, and Martin Society for Sustainability, MIT. He was chosen by Wired magazine for “The Smart List” and selected by Rolling Stone for “The 100 People Who Are Changing America”. Mitchell won many honors and co-authored four books. His design work has been exhibited at MoMA and the Venice Biennale. He earned: PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch Columbia University.
Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

Composer, multimedia artist, and writer Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) immerses audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. Miller has collaborated with an array of recording artists, including Metallica, Chuck D, Steve Reich, and Yoko Ono. His 2018 album DJ Spooky Presents: Phantom Dancehall debuted at #3 on Billboard Reggae. He is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨