Ari Melenciano
Artist • Designer • Technologist • Researcher • TheoristAbout
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Practice
Black Metal: Starship Program
(Book Publishing, Web Design, Experimental Film, Film Scoring, 3D animation, Production | 2024-5)Series of Experiments in Dance and Sound
(3D animations, remixes, sound studies | 2024)Theater of Meta-Interiority, Ensemble
(Art exhibition + essay | 2024Sculpting Consciousness: Art as a Materialization of Research — and Vice Versa
(Essay | 2023)AI Self Portraits, Series
(AI Photo Series | 2023)Computational Anthropology and Exploring Identity through Artificial Synthesis
(Essay | 2023)Paradoxical Intelligence
(Essay | 2023)Symphosynthesis de Otzkö Kazo
(Performance at UMD | 2023)Computational Anthropology
(AI Image Series | 2021)Hues of Stzair Echology | 001
(Modular Synthesis Soundscape | 2021)Finger User Interface (FUI)
(Interactive Code, Hardware Machine Learning | 2021)Celestial Florilegia
(3D Rendering, Speculative Botany | 2021)Strawberry Sounds
(Biosonification | 2021)Revel in the Minutae
(Video Art, Soundscape, Poetry | 2021)Studio Museum’s Artists on Artists: Live Modular Synth Set
(Modular Synthesis | 2021)Traveling the Interstitium
(WebVR | 2021)National Endowment for the Arts: Building Afrocentric Technoculture and Community
(Essay | 2021)Electrocology of Sound Travel
(WebVR | 2020)Metamorphosis.FM
(WebVR | 2020)Notes on Omni-Specialized Design for Beautiful Futures
(Essay | 2020)Radical Technoculture for Racial Equity
(Essay | 2019)Ojo Oro
(Physical Computing, Product Design | 2018)Building a Museum 353 Years in the Future
(Essay | 2018)Experiments + Research
Experimental Architectural Drafting (2020)
Recorded Talks
“Let’s Rebrand AI” at Sundance
(Panel | 2024)Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative
(Fireside Chat | 2024)Sculpting Consciousness: Mythopoesis, AI, and the Symphony of Cultural Metacognition at WhatIf Summit
(Keynote | 2023)
MIT Media Lab‘s Lunch Lecture Series: Generative AI and Artistic Practice
(Keynote | 2023)
Parsons School of Design’s Cloud Salon: Sculpting Consciousness
(Keynote | 2023)Dubai Future Forum: Towards Other Futures
(Moderator | 2023)Iterations.Online: Sentient Code
(Keynote | 2023)AI & Art: Reflections on Language, Myths and Culture with Ari Melenciano at Montclair State Universities Galleries
(Discussion | 2023)TheHost.Is: Afrotectopia Book and Computational Anthropology
(Keynote | 2022)
Carnegie Mellon University’s The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry’s Art && Code: Homemade | Electromedia, Design, Culture
(Keynote | 2021)
California College of the Arts - CCA: Speculating Futures Through Omni-Specialized Design
(Keynote | 2021)
MIT Open Documentary Lab: Design Fluidity and Black Radical Imagination
(Keynote | 2021)
ArtCenter College of Design: Critical Discourse in Design
(Panelist | 2021)
School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design Lecture Series
(Keynote | 2020)
Harvard’s Black in Design Conference: Black Power Meets the Digital: Equity & Justice in Technology and Media
(Panel | 2019)
Interviews/Features/Podcasts
Studio Visit Vlog with Dev Moore
(2024)Back to Listen: Forces of Thought
(2024)Caimpaign US: Black Artists to Watch
(2024)University of Maryland’s Inaugural Arts for All Residents
(2024)Oroko Radio’s Long Distance
With Dre Ngozi
(2023)
Wired: How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists
(2023)Sundance Film Festival: AI
(2023)Technically Optimistic: On Strike! How will AI impact the economy, culture, and the future of creativity?
(2023)Forbes: Dispatch From A Black Future: An Interview With Ari Melenciano
(2021)Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change
(2021)Gabriela Hirst x Pioneer Works
(2021)WIX: The sight and sound of Ari Melenciano
(2020)New York Magazine’s Curbed Feature
(2020)DesignObserver
(2020)[Blog | Archive]
(Photographs, travels, process, etc.)