Lauren Goshinski is a curator and cultural producer shaping festivals, public programs, and cross-platform projects that move between virtual and physical space. For over a decade, her work has connected global communities across the arts, performance, music, technology, film, nightlife, and urbanism—saving space for culture while propelling it forward.
From co-founding the influential VIA Festival to co-directing New Forms Festival, Lauren’s projects are rooted in context: built collaboratively with institutions, independent spaces, nightlife scenes, community organizers, and artists. She specializes in forging interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and cross-geographic dialogue—building bridges between often siloed fields.
Her initiatives have supported over 1,000 artists from around the world, bringing together creative technologists like Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Char Stiles, Dalena Tran & Hirad Sab, Jeremy Bailey, Kyle McDonald, Nate Boyce, Sam & Andy Rolfes, and Quayola;
with musicians, performers, and DJs such as Actress, Christeene, DJ Marcelle, Debit, Elysia Crampton, ESG, Empress Of, Four Tet, Juliana Huxtable, Junglepussy, Kelela, Lafawndah, Laurel Halo, Mhysa/Scraaatch, Oneohtrix Point Never, Rakim, Teklife, Tommy Wright III, Underground Resistance, and Yaeji.
She has curated exhibitions, residencies, screenings, and symposia featuring Babycastles, FLUCT, Salome Asega, Lorna Mills, Astria Suparak, Alisha Wormsley, John Wilson & LJ Frezza, Morehshin Allahyari, Yatta, Geng, Via App, Dreamcrushr, and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste,
and produced hybrid/online programs with artists like Arca, Ahya Simone, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Rebecca Salvadori, Nicolas Sassoon, and LaTurbo Avedon.
Pursuing greater equity and access is central to her work—on stage and behind the scenes. She currently serves as a board member for Resident Advisor, a mentor with NEW INC. and NIVF/Vox, and leads community partnerships for the Municipal Art Society’s Enduring Culture Initiative. She has served as a grant reviewer for Creative Capital and The MAP Fund, and contributed widely to emergency response efforts during the pandemic, from mutual aid projects like NightLifeLine, the Global Nighttime Recovery Plan with VibeLab, advocacy with NIVA’s Save Our Stages campaign, and bringing artists to people’s living rooms for Public Records/PRTV. The effects of the pandemic on independent cultural producers and spaces motivated Lauren to pursue a master’s in Urban Placemaking and Management at Pratt Institute, where her research—A Sound Place: Musicking the 24-Hour City—argues for music as essential civic infrastructure and offers new frameworks for cultural policy and urban systems reform.
A longtime DJ and AV artist, Lauren’s improvisational sets and b2bs on The Lot Radio offer a peek into the rhythms that keep her connected. She hopes to release her first album when she turns 100.