Afrotectopia

Imagining, researching, and building at the nexus of new media art, design, science, and technology through a Black and Afrocentric lens.

[Mozilla Festival @mozillafestival]

❗ICYMI❗️

You can find the recording for @verotruesocial's #MozFest panel, 'Building Healthy Online Communities - the #CreatorsChallenge' here ➡️ https://t.co/98Ez85zcMe

🙌Thanks again to our incredible panelists, @ahariri, @thekoreanvegan, @Afrotectopia & @maxjoseph!

[♬ $UZI ΛNΛLØGUΣ © @suziAnalog]

Also I loved all the workshops & panels I was able to be a part of 2021…I love sharing ideas with y’all s/o @Afrotectopia @insessionworld @splice @BrownUniversity @UNC @hbomax & many other talks I joined.

[Afrotectopia @Afrotectopia]

@suziAnalog @insessionworld @splice @BrownUniversity @UNC @hbomax Soo great to have you 🖤🖤

[Afrotectopia @Afrotectopia]

Founder @ariciano was celebrated by @Doritos 's Solid Black campaign in recognizing emerging changemakers. Watch the full video here: https://t.co/b2iOc07R3h 🖤

[MIT OpenDocLab @opendoclab]

📢Next week on 11/9 @ 12PM ET, join us online for a talk by @aricianoo, who will describe how she’s built at the intersecting worlds of art, design, research, culture, & sound, and how all of those interests led her to creating @Afrotectopia. Register➡️https://t.co/7cQt2TCQfN

[Doritos @Doritos]

As the founder of @Afrotectopia, her focus is the nexus of new media art, design, science, and technology through a Black and Afrocentric lens. She’s #SolidBlack21 (2/2)

[Doritos @Doritos]

Meet Ari Melenciano, a NYC based artist, creative technologist, researcher and college professor. Ari is passionate about exploring and explaining the relationships between design and sentient experience. (1/2)

[Emoti-Con NYC 🎮🤖🎙️🎨🛠️✊🏽 @EmotiCon_NYC]

📺Our Keynote Interview is Live!📺 Ari Melenciano @aricianoo from @Google and @Afrotectopia answers #EmotiCon2021 students' questions about her creative tech projects, about finding inspiration within Black culture, and about her career pathway. Watch: https://t.co/y8WtEWgF59

[Adobe XD @AdobeXD]

Discover how the School of @Afrotectopia, founded by @aricianoo, uses technology to illustrate Black history in the modern age and makes it accessible to everyone. https://t.co/B8NotbWym7

[🍉 @damonjbarnes]

I interviewed @Afrotectopia founder @aricianoo about her venture into tech, Afrotectopia, and her concerns + hope about preserving the Black radical imagination.

full cover story in @nunarmag issue 2 https://t.co/enzikdL3a1

[🍉 @damonjbarnes]

“There are always futures possible that are shaped by Black radical imagination. That’s so much of what Afrotectopia is about. Step one is not waiting for permission,” says @Afrotectopia founder Ari Melenciano.

full cover story in @nunarmag Issue 2 https://t.co/enzikdL3a1

[Emoti-Con NYC 🎮🤖🎙️🎨🛠️✊🏽 @EmotiCon_NYC]

🥁We are so ridiculously honored to announce that @aricianoo (Creative Technologist @Google and founder of @Afrotectopia) will be this year's #Emoticon2021 Keynote! 👏👏👏 Her interview will kick off the 12-day virtual project fair on 5/24: https://t.co/y8WtEWgF59

[p5xjs @p5xjs]

10 days left to apply to our 2021 Fellowship Program! Receive stipend and mentorship for projects that imagine new possibilities for what this community and software can do. Focus areas include: accessibility, internationalization, continuing support, and AI ethics & open source.

[Processing @ProcessingOrg]

2021 marks our 10th year participating in Google Summer of Code! @GoogleOSS offers stipends to students to work on open-source project like @p5xjs & others during the summer. This year GSOC is open to all students in any postsecondary program. Our projects https://t.co/L5Rg752qUj

[Legacy Russell @LegacyRussell]

3P EST TODAY 💙🌱📻

[KingBritt @kingbritt]

An honor to curate the #Blacktronika part of @googleartsculture new mind-blowing exhibition Music, Makers & Machines.
I collaborated with @moogseum on the presentation. @ucsdmusic

https://t.co/w48RjiTW00

[Tricia Wang @triciawang]

Come join me on Wednesday 5pm est in interviewing @aricianoo in lessons she’s learned in designing communities like @Afrotectopia

[Alton Glass @AltonGlassVR]

Storytelling & technology is shaping our future in ways we used to only imagine! Join creators, entrepreneurs & technologists on March 10th as we share insights leveraging emerging tech and discuss how we engage and collectively build for the immersive future! #immersivefuture

[Aleshia Hayes Ph.D. Game Dev Prof @AleshiaProf]

Thanks @kentbye for the great podcast that introduced me to @Afrotectopia and @aricianoo and their work in Worldbuilding with an Afrocentric focus.