Ari Melenciano

Practice

Series of Experiments in Dance and Sound

Theater of Meta-Interiority, Ensemble

  •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

AI Self Portraits, Series

Computational Anthropology and Exploring Identity through Artificial Synthesis 

Paradoxical Intelligence

Symphosynthesis de Otzkö Kazo

Computational Anthropology

Hues of Stzair Echology | 001

Finger User Interface (FUI)

Celestial Florilegia 

Strawberry Sounds

Revel in the Minutae

Studio Museum’s Artists on Artists: Live Modular Synth Set

Traveling the Interstitium

National Endowment for the Arts: Building Afrocentric Technoculture and Community 

Electrocology of Sound Travel 

Metamorphosis.FM 

Notes on Omni-Specialized Design for Beautiful Futures 

Electro Negro Synesthesyo 

Radical Technoculture for Racial Equity 

Ojo Oro

Building a Museum 353 Years in the Future 

Experiments + Research

Recorded Talks

“Let’s Rebrand AI” at Sundance

Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative

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

Parsons School of Design’s Cloud Salon: Sculpting Consciousness

Dubai Future Forum: Towards Other Futures

Iterations.Online: Sentient Code

AI & Art: Reflections on Language, Myths and Culture with Ari Melenciano at Montclair State Universities Galleries

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

Interviews/Features/Podcasts

Studio Visit Vlog with Dev Moore

Back to Listen: Forces of Thought

Caimpaign US: Black Artists to Watch

University of Maryland’s Inaugural Arts for All Residents

Oroko Radio’s Long Distance
With Dre Ngozi

Wired: How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists

Sundance Film Festival: AI

Technically Optimistic: On Strike! How will AI impact the economy, culture, and the future of creativity?

Forbes: Dispatch From A Black Future: An Interview With Ari Melenciano

Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change

Gabriela Hirst x Pioneer Works

WIX: The sight and sound of Ari Melenciano

New York Magazine’s Curbed Feature

DesignObserver

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