Ari Melenciano

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Selected Works, Interviews, Essays, Talks:
Black Metal Starship Program

(Book/film tour)

 Various Locations
2024-2025

Experimental Kitchen Table Art Book (limited edition, 500 copies) on speculative design and the future of space travel through a cultural and spiritual lens

Collaboration between Afrotectopia, MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative, and NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program

Designed by WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA)
Printed by Small Editions
Supported by the Ford Foundation
Included artists: Jordan Caldwell, Kordae Henry, Jeremy Kamal, Ari Melenciano

Book tour stops:
Lower East Side Girls Club (NYC), Culture Hub (NYC), Simon’s Foundation (NYC), The Reading Room (TX), ONX (NYC), Design Academy Eindhoven (Netherlands), Laundromat Project (NYC), MIT Media Lab (MA), Rutgers University (NJ), Hunter College (NYC), NYU (NYC), IDEO, Pioneer Works (NYC), University of Maryland (MD), Ohio State University (OH)

Purchase, here.


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Design, Producer, Art, Publishing, Lecture, Film,
Film Score
©2025Ari Melenciano