Intelligent Mischief

Intelligent Mischief is a Brooklyn-based creative studio unleashing Black imagination to shape the future, co-founded by Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall. Their purpose is to boost invention and imagination, re-align action logic, and experiment with new forms of culture & civil society to create atmospheres of change. They cultivate community and create multi-platform stories, experiences, and ephemera, and engage in collaborations at the intersection of social justice, art, design, and culture. They work with people across the African Diaspora to cultivate the creative potential of our peoples to create new realities. Their work builds on the Black Radical tradition and cultural movements such as the Black Arts Movement, Afro-surrealism, Afro Futurism, Visionary Fiction, Black Radical Imagination, Freedom Dreaming and more.

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Noya Kohavi is a technologist, writer and independent consultant. Her work uses computer vision and computational linguistics to generate new narratives and insights, focusing on data ethics and a queer approach to computing. At NEW INC, she is developing Lineage, a visual discovery engine for museum databases and visual archives. Using artificially intelligent visual affinity and resonance algorithms, Lineage digitally mimics the human associative process, making large image databases usable and accessible, and allowing for emergent histories to surface. Noya holds a BA in philosophy and linguistics from Tel Aviv University and an MS with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is the recipient of a Maria Moors Cabot Prize scholarship and a Magic grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

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Synoptic Office

Synoptic Office is a multidisciplinary design studio operating in the space between design, technology, and education. Co-founded by Caspar Lam and YuJune Park, the studio works alongside institutions and large organizations such as Carnegie Hall and Bloomberg to explore how technology can be used to tell stories of art and culture. Guided by the belief that cultural institutions are centers of memory and collective knowledge, Synoptic Office interweaves its expertise in cataloging, metadata, and design to bring the arts to the widest possible audience.

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