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= Ida Benedetto (artist) = Ida Benedetto is a New York City based experience director and a researcher of immersive experience design. She is a co-founder of two design practices, Sextantworks and Antidote Games, and was previously a director of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Education and Early Career
Ida Benedetto graduated with a bachelor’s degree in History at The New School University. In [give a year] she received a B.F.A. in Design & Technology at the Parsons School of Design, and in [give a year] she received her M.A. in Design Research at the School of Visual Arts. [1]

Ida worked as the first Director of Dialogue Design and Community Engagement at the Rockefeller Foundation[5]. In [give a year] she started to work on more experience related projects. She was a co-founder of the Antidote Game and Accused, projects which use games to explore group dynamics and systems[11, 12]. These projects were funded by NYU-Stern and created in partnership with the Innocence Project while using the tool Twine[11, Twine has a wikipedia page]. Ida Benedetto worked with her creative and romantice partner N. D. Austin to co-found Wanderlust Projects, which creates transgressive placemaking experiences[1,7,10, 20]. These projects focus on “reanimating a space or getting it back into circulation.”[9]. Some of Wanderlust Projects include the Night Heron Water Town Speakeasy and the Illicit Couple’s Retreat[8,9,13,14,20]. These locations have now closed [9,13,14].

Talks and Teaching
Ida Benedetto works as an advisor for documentary and education organizations such as the School for Poetic Computation, Radiotopia’s The Heart, and the Magnum Foundation’s Photography, Expanded initiative[4, 17].

Influence on Other Artists
Ida Benedetto has been attributed as an influence in the work of Priya Parker in “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters” and Bruce Feiler’s “Life is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age”. [16]

Resources
1 https://uncommonplaces.com/ or of her projects)

3 cusp conference https://www.cuspconference.com/presenters/ida-benedetto/

4 https://designresearch.sva.edu/student/ida-c-benedetto/ (somewhere she teaches classes)

5 https://dcrit.medium.com/alumni-spotlight-2e7535de380e An interview with her

6 https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/ida-benedetto/ rockafeller foundation (former director)

7 https://futureofstorytelling.org/speaker/n-d-austin-ida-benedetto (future of storytelling)

8 https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/profile/ida-c-benedetto/ (new school parsons, just mentions the existence of the Sextantworks projects)

9 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/night-heron-wanderlust-in-residency-and-the-launch-of-the-obscura-black-box-events (news on the night heron)

10 https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-design/a/ida-benedetto/ (bloomberg article on Sextantworks project)

11 https://www.openlawlab.com/2013/11/19/games-legal-complexities-interview-ida-benedetto/ (interview on Antidote Game and Accused)

12 https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/harnessing-the-power-of-video-games-for-journalism/ (references Antidote Games as Ida as cofounder and the importance of such a business)

13 https://laughingsquid.com/the-night-heron-a-speakeasy-hidden-in-a-rooftop-water-tower-in-manhattan/ (very short article on The Night Heron)

14 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/nyregion/illicit-nightclub-in-a-chelsea-water-tower.html (new york times article on Night Heron, has a paywall)

15 https://techgnosis.com/patterns-of-transformation/ interview on patterns of transformation

16 https://hurryslowly.co/402-priya-parker/ reference in an interview with another artist

17 https://sfpc.io/people/ida-benedetto/

18 https://dcrit.medium.com/alumni-spotlight-2e7535de380e

19 https://qz.com/author/idacbenedetto/ (she worked for quartz)

20 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/tower-heist (mentions the night heron and the illicit couple's club)