Moving on the Wires: “H(A)UNTED” Exhibition

Tomorrow in Manhattan, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute will be having an opening reception at 7pm for “H(a)unted,” an exhibition in response to Trayvon Martin and the historic criminalization of Black men. The exhibition will run from tomorrow to May 18th and Shantrelle P Lewis is curating it. Fyeahafrofuturism will be there as […]

Moving on the Wires: Bard Exhibition

Curator Andrew Rebatta sent me information on the Sunday opening of exhibitions at Bard College. He and six other student curators will be presenting their exhibitions. If you live near Bard and want to attend, this is the website for more information and directions. Here is Rebatta’s thesis exhibition: Donna Huanca “The myth is neither […]

Art of This World: Michael Ray Charles

“You’ve got to think of how these images were used in American culture…they were everywhere and they were used to market anything from oils to ink, from food products to clothing…People operate from an emotional place when they see these images because they think of the past as being something that happened and that the […]

If I Had My Way…

Soul Sci-fi posted this as a potential comic: “Dominique finds herself trapped at The Crossroads, the pathway between flesh and spirit, where she faces an inquisition from a handful of lethally unpredictable voodoo gods. From sailing the River of Souls with Baron Samedi, god of death, to confronting the overwhelming vastness of the Universe from […]

Art of This World: Dwayne Rodgers and the Black Vernacular

Photographer Dwayne Rodgers did a collaborative project, Black Vernacular, in which people submitted photographs of their ancestors as part of a digital communal alter. Okayplayer interviewed him: “What is “The Black Vernacular” – what’s it all about? The Black Vernacular is a digital altar that I created in collaboration with friends from “real life,” Twitter […]

Modern Griots: Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, A Visual Mythologist

From her website: “I teach but mostly I make journeys. Sometimes I am a photographer; sometimes a painter, writer, historian, documentarian, bohemian artist. But most times, I am all of the above. I am inspired by the magic that occurs when one goes looking for ancestors–those unmapped spaces that are realized on front porches, at […]

If I Had My Way…

…This would be a tv show, movie, book series, etc. Any takers? From Myisha on Palace of Funk Antoinette “Toni” Batiste, occult detective. I choose to design a detective from Louisiana who works specifically with the occult, particularly Voodoo (or rather the stuff people get up to when practicing Voodoo maliciously, rude). She’s also a […]

The My-Stery: Futures of Color

Although the main focus of this blog is afrofuturism, all people of color are in the speculative realm as well: From Butcharri “Why POC need Science-Fiction and Fantasy… You know one thing that I’ve found in being a creative and a person of color is that attempting to get POC to collaborate on something that […]

Modern Griots: Elton Leonard Jr.

Visual artist Elton Leonard Jr. describes the spiritual, social, and political aspects of his work: My artwork takes a critical view of cultural, political and erotic perspectives. In my work, I reconstruct the American dream and fantasy images that are part of our childhood and adult culture. Having engaged subjects as diverse as black women’s […]

…An Album By Its Cover: Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is an innovative jazz musicians, but he also knows how to pick great album covers. Also, here is an article placing Hancock in a futurist context. Thrust (1974), Cover by Robert Springett Magic Windows (1981), Cover by David Ross Head Hunters (1973), Cover by Victor Moscoso The Solid Steel Interview (2002) Future Shock […]