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]

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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AI Self Portraits, Series

• Surreal à la Vogue

• Abstracted Sense of Self

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