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2026 HAS ARRIVED

2026 is here—and so is Africans Abroad, Volume 2. Rooted in the principles of the African Jetset series, this body of work retrofits the future, staging images of Africans luxuriating in the wealth, health, and imaginative freedom of a continent allowed to flourish on its own terms. It gestures toward an alternate universe—one where the devastations of colonialism and extractivism have been ...

THE NETWORKED MUSEUM: LESSONS FROM FINDING NEMO

This talk was presented at CIMAM 2025 in Turin, Italy. 0. THE BIG BLUE Recently, on a transatlantic flight, I rewatched the Pixar classic, Finding Nemo.  I’d never actually finished it before — the premise gave me too much anxiety:  A clownfish named Marlin loses his son Nemo to a scuba diver’s net, and decides he’s going to cross the entire ocean to find him.  I remember ...

Art Deco Airport

A space that has emerged as I begin to storyboard my film scripts with Midjourney, the generative AI.

Issey Miyake Reimagined as a Nocturne

I recently “entered” the Midjourney chat room. Midjourney is a image generative AI that is triggered by text prompts, and is what every art director in the universe has been dreaming of. My initial interest was its application as a storyboard, but in general its propensity of alchemy is well, intoxicating…The beauty of this generative AI is the unexpected beasts derived from ...

THE HUMAN VALVE II

My Valentine’s day piece for FZ. This is the “Genet” version: “My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.” ― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers The Human Valve, find yours this Valentine’s Day. Created by Onome Ekeh for Futurezoo Music: “Speak To Me / Breathe ((In The ...

Praesepe

Personal tarot: The Chariot / Bee Cluster / Praesepe

Game. Rite – The Board

The Game.Rite Board Game, ‘A Game Called Zoo’, is a set of neuro-linguistic triggers. If you are reading this, you are already playing the game… Click here to amplify.  

BLUE

Visuals for Meena Ysanne's TED presentation, "Blue" on May 13, 2017 in Bend, Oregon.
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