Day 04. Activating Inclusive Futures
Design Fluidity: Electromedia, Technoculture and Racial Activism
Thursday June 25, 11:00am EDT
🎤 Keynote
This talk is a survey of Ari's practice in using electromedia for political protest, celebration of Black culture, and speculation of futures; designing anti-racist technoculture; and her process in developing the New Media Arts, Culture, and Technology Festival, Afrotectopia.
Ari Melenciano
Founder of Afrotectopia / Creative Technologist, NYU
Ari Melenciano is a creative technologist and researcher who is passionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of design and the human experience. Currently, her research lies at the intersections of human-computer interactive technologies, social impacts of technology, counterculture, sound, multi-sensory experiential design, experimental pedagogy and speculative design. Ari is the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture and activism. She also teaches creative technology and design at NYU and The Pratt Institute.