It was nice to reflect on designing communities like Afrotectopia and finding that as a form of art -- with Forbes forbes.com/sites/sloanleo…

Thanks Kent Bye (Voices of VR) for the great podcast that introduced me to Afrotectopia and Ari and their work in Worldbuilding with an Afrocentric focus.

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

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

An honor to curate the #Blacktronika part of @googleartsculture new mind-blowing exhibition Music, Makers & Machines. I collaborated with @moogseum on the presentation. UC San Diego Music artsandculture.google.com/story/EAWBV8wS…

3P EST TODAY 💙🌱📻

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.

2021 marks our 10th year participating in Google Summer of Code! Google Open Source 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 github.com/processing/pro…

🥁We are so ridiculously honored to announce that Ari (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: emoticon.mouse.org

I interviewed Afrotectopia founder Ari about her venture into tech, Afrotectopia, and her concerns + hope about preserving the Black radical imagination. full cover story in NUNAR issue 2 nunarmag.com

“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 NUNAR Issue 2 nunarmag.com

Discover how the School of Afrotectopia, founded by Ari, uses technology to illustrate Black history in the modern age and makes it accessible to everyone. adobe.ly/3fqqJ5A

📺Our Keynote Interview is Live!📺 Ari Melenciano Ari 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: emoticon.mouse.org

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)

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)

📢Next week on 11/9 @ 12PM ET, join us online for a talk by Ari, 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➡️bit.ly/odltalk119

Founder @ariciano was celebrated by cHiP SLip 🔞 's Solid Black campaign in recognizing emerging changemakers. Watch the full video here: doritos.com/solidblack/ari… 🖤

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 In Session World Splice Brown University UNC-Chapel Hill HBO Max & many other talks I joined.

❗ICYMI❗️ You can find the recording for VERO MUSIC's #MozFest panel, 'Building Healthy Online Communities - the #CreatorsChallenge' here ➡️ mzl.la/3vVc9wZ 🙌Thanks again to our incredible panelists, Ayman Hariri, Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan, Afrotectopia & Max Joseph!