Ari Melenciano

Artist • Technologist • Researcher • Theorist

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Practice

[•Studio Art, •Writing, •3D Design, •Performance, •Sound, •AI/ML, •Photography, •Research, •Interactive Code, •Physical Computing]

Series of Experiments in Dance and Sound

••••(3D animations, remixes, sound studies | 2024)

Theater of Meta-Interiority, Ensemble

••••••(Solo art exhibition + essay | 2024)

•Diagrams of Otzkö Kazo’s --- Philosophies

•Htzioro’s Paintings | Htziara’s Paint

•Technotzkölogies

•Supratemporal Sueños of Azueli

•Oratori’s Symbols of Language

•Anza’s Cosmogram

•Soloro and Seira’s Symphosynthesis

•Toiszo’s Time Dimensions

•Gjzitiua’s Sonic Sculptures

•Spherical Theater of the Subconscious Plasticity

•Axzistoc’s Documentation: Process as Art

Sculpting 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)

Electro Negro Synesthesyo

••(Sound Sculptures | 2019)

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

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.)

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Gjzitiua's Sonic Sculptures

Gjzitiua rules balance and harmony. Mostly of the innerworld, but she is also keen to the external and material practice of sculpture. These instruments create novel forms of engaging with sound, to compliment the soundscape of the Symphosynthesis.

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