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Posted on October 19, 2018

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In this interview I dug deep into the ways that we can use science fiction & bioart to manifest a more equitable future for people of colour. Keep an eye out for the documentary “The Radical Imagination Project” by Kamal Sinclair with the Guild of Future Architects. Such an honour to be interviewed. Huge thanks to @ralstonrsmith for capturing this! Endless thanks to @afrotectopia ✨

🦠“The slime mold has served as a kind of a paranoiac-critical agent, helping me make connections where none previously existed. I trust its movement will take me where I need to go.“ - bio artist Jenna Sutela published in Rhizome by Elvia Wilk

What can we learn about decentralized information & equity from small biocultures like slime mold? How can that help us design a better future for ourselves? “To be one you must also be many, & that’s not a metaphor”. Donna Haraway was onto something. So was Octavia Butler, black sci-fi writer & slime mold researcher. As a compelling extension of the workshops I’ve been teaching in Toronto & New York, Afrofuturustic artist Ayo Okunseinde & I are developing a roving system that will let you explore these questions through code, networked devices, storytelling &, of course, slime mold. You can catch it at @genspacenyc on Oct 20th & 27th. More details coming soon ✨🦠

I am extremely grateful to have exhibited artwork at the New York Google Creative Lab last weekend. What an experience it was to imagine an empowered future while reflecting on and prototyping the present. Thank you to @afrotectopia and the attendees who shared meaningful conversations around this police brutality piece. It was an honour to hold space and memorialize those names with all of you. It was also such a pleasure to be surrounded by these incredible augmented reality paintings by @jessvaloris. . “i can’t breathe” is a data visualization of unjust black deaths at the hand of police brutality, acting as a homage to Eric Garner’s last words. The screen displays each day of the calendar year. The lungs breathe gently on the days free of documented deaths. On a day when a person of colour lost their life to an officer, the lungs shrivel and deflate and the screen displays the name of the deceased. This pays five minutes of homage to each person who has died. . Though this iteration only accounts for the month of January 2018, it pays respect to 27 deaths and takes over 2 hours to witness in its entirety. The full dataset accounts for more than 1749 deaths since 2013, 80% of which have gone without judicial consequence or investigation. In the next version of this piece I intent to visualize and memorialize all 1749 people in breaths, over a series of days.

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