Dennis Scholl is vice president of the arts program for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He oversees the foundation’s national arts program, which includes the Knight Arts Challenge and Random Acts of Culture. As a well-known collector of contemporary art, Scholl is also the founder of a series of initiatives dedicated to building the contemporary art collections of museums, including the Guggenheim, the Tate Modern, and the Miami Art Museum. Scholl is a visiting scholar at MIT Media Lab.