Afrotectopia (established 2018) is a social institution at the nexus of art, design, technology, culture, and pedagogy. In its lifetime, Afrotectopia has grown from a festival/conference based in New York City to an international fellowship bridging connections and catalyzing boundless imagination across the Black and Pan-African diaspora.
In 2021, Afrotectopia created an incubator in partnership with New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Program, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Space Exploration Initiative, for four artists to intimately imagine a new world, not on planet Earth. These four artists included Jordan Caldwell, Kordae Henry, Jeremy Kamal, and Ari Melenciano. For close to two years, these artists researched and developed what became Black Metal. This work was created with the additional support from the Ford Foundation. Black Metal was designed by We Should Do It All (WSDIA), and printed and bound by Small Editions.
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