Ari Melenciano
Ari Melenciano is an artist, designer, and creative technologist who's research and practice explores computational anthropology, the ethnographic morphing of artistic expression, speculative ideations and the materialization of omni-scoped research in the form of quasi-pseudosciences. She is a creative technologist at Google's Creative Lab, and founder of Afrotectopia, - a social institution that is imagining, researching, and building at the nexus of new media art, design, science, and technology through a Black and Afrocentric lens. Her award-winning work has been supported and exhibited by a variety of institutions including Sundance, The New Museum's New Inc, Nokia Bell Labs, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Studio Museum of Harlem. She has taught and designed courses at The Pratt Institute, Hunter College, and New York University. She is often guest lecturing at universities around the world. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.