https://emilysegal.net EJS Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:02:49 +0000 https://emilysegal.net en http://emilysegal.net/Untitled-page Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:02:49 +0000 EJS 448722 http://emilysegal.net/Bio Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:48:13 +0000 EJS 224697 Emily Segal is a brand strategist, trend forecaster, artist and writer based in Los Angeles. As an internationally recognized expert on brands and cultural change, her clients have included Prada, Supreme, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MTV and many others across luxury and technology. Currently, she is a founding partner of Nemesis, a strategic consulting firm and creative studio based in LA, NY and Berlin, called “an ‘alternative’ consultancy” by the New Yorker. She also runs Deluge Books, an experimental literary press, with collaborators in New York and Los Angeles. Previously she co-founded the trend forecasting group K-HOLE, the collective best known for coining the term normcore. K-HOLE's free PDF trend reports on the nature of millennial change were downloaded half a million times and their work has been presented at galleries and museums internationally, including the Serpentine Gallery and MoMA PS1. Vogue called them “pop culture’s favorite trend forecasters.” She was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business and served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Consumer Industries. Emily’s debut novel, Mercury Retrograde, was published in 2020 and was a New York Times New &amp; Noteworthy book. Emily Segal is a brand strategist, trend forecaster, artist and writer based in Los Angeles. As an internationally recognized expert on brands and cultural change,... http://emilysegal.net/Projects Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:36:07 +0000 EJS 165246 author of MERCURY RETROGRADE: A NOVEL founder of Nemesis, Deluge Books, K-HOLE b.1988 New York, NY info@emilysegal.net&nbsp; full&nbsp;bio&nbsp;here <img width="926" height="1652" width_o="926" height_o="1652" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9ca6319368471d73ecb601b6fdd22482592858e10c48c306554e6cbb3317186a/Screen-Shot-2023-09-26-at-2.27.44-PM.png" data-mid="1319157" border="0" /> I’m the co-founder of the strategic consultancy NEMESIS as well as the literary press DELUGE BOOKS. I also founded the trend forecasting group and art collective K-HOLE (2011-2016). My debut novel Mercury Retrograde, published by Deluge in 2020, is available here. Older projects: Max Pain memo, On Beauty for Spike,&nbsp;KNOTS, Poetry zine with Civilization Magazine, Burn Alpha $NOVEL, Three Poems for Folia, Guardian Op-ed “The Great Conjunction”, The DOOM! Report, Sneaker as Hyperobject with Virgil Abloh in Something’s Off book, The Umami Theory of Value, Nemesis at the Architecture Effects exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2019), *Mercury Retrograde* (the novel) at the Serpentine Work Marathon (2018), Emily Segal in Conversation with Virgil (Mousse), ~The Full Normcore Bibliography~ (Google Doc with Grace Sparapani), Mai 1968 - Mai 2018 discussion at the Centre Pompidou (2018), The Rubens Engine Lecture at KHNW Basel, Femme Futures essay (Frieze), Harvard x Design Lecture, Future/Countryside presentation with Rem Koolhaas (Engadin Art Talks). Nails and Sunglasses and other commodities&nbsp; (SSENSE). The Stars in our Stars essay (TANK), Normcore Past Present Future (Digital Bauhaus Summit), Delusion-du-Jour with Natasha Stagg, Every Generation is a Blank Generation interview (Die Literarische Welt), (Post-)Empire State of Mind on How To Murder Your Life (Texte zur Kunst), Design and Language course (Gerrit Rietveld Academie). Novel Leak #2 installation (Project Native Informant), Boat Rage (Berlin Biennial), Novel Leak #1 installation (Witte de With Contemporary Art Center), Notes on M~a~g~e~n~t~a essay (Flash Art). “Art in an Overseen World” (New Museum), Critical Tr*lling Panel (Concordia School of the Arts), Graphic Narratives course with Michael Rock (Columbia GSAPP), Energy as Clickbait talk with Doug Coupland (Frieze London 2015), Issey Miyake cover story (Flash Art), Interview with Alexa Chung (British Vogue), Creative Direction for Genius, Genius.to.be, Genius x Simon Denny at MoMA PS1, Mercury Retrograde Essay (e-flux supercommunity), World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Consumer Industries, TEDxVaduz limited bomber jacket (Contemporary Art Daily), Learning from the MA-1: The Future of Luxury Branding (TEDx Talk), K-HOLE presents YOUTH MODE (Serpentine Gallery), What’s the Energy of Your Energy Drink (essay on DIS Magazine) (lecture at MoMA PS1), Who Wears All Black talk (MoMA PS1), Vanity Quest, Normcore Research (Suzannegeiss.net), Collapsonomics, On Smart Drugs &amp; Concentration (Fiktion), contribution to Solution Love (Sternberg Press), Future Patrol blog (Wolff Olins), Hood by Air Interview with Shayne Oliver (Business of Fashion), Interview with Cory Arcangel and Paul Chan (032c), Selects (032c), Interview with Helen DeWitt, Tent Cities essay(2009) Los Angeles (c) 2023 author of MERCURY RETROGRADE: A NOVEL founder of Nemesis, Deluge Books, K-HOLE b.1988 New York, NY info@emilysegal.net&nbsp; full&nbsp;bio&nbsp;here ...