Bridging research

& cultural practice

I am an assistant professor and curator at the University of Washington Information School in Seattle. I currently teach gender and race in information technology, information and social justice, and Afrofuturism and technology. As an art historian I do memory work, excavate archives, and challenge distorted images. My artistic research approaches ethics of care in the digital cultural commons.


Image: Remixed installation view from The Dreamkeeper exhibition (2021)

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An interdisciplinary practice

Research

Archives, colonial visual cultures, affect, postmemory, digitisation, photography, ethics of care, racialisation, open GLAM

Teaching

media studies, visual communication, art history, cultural studies, informatics, library and information science

Speaking

seminars, workshops, public lectures, bespoke courses, summer schools, community initiatives

Making

exhibitions, interventions, curated media, sonic projects, video, projections, AR, mixed reality, essays of varying kinds

Living Archives Bitter and Sweet project 3D scan of African Head in Royal Cast Collection Denmark
Odumosu Milk and Honey installation Botkyrka Konstall 2017
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01 Jan, 2022
Still thinking about the fantastic Index Foundation (Sweden) youth conference "Going to a Conference: In Character" , organised last year by the Index teen advisory board. Hosted on the gaming platform Twitch, the conference playfully explored youth experiences of visiting contemporary art exhibitions, and questioned who was was included and excluded from these cultural spaces. I offered a provocation inspired by Adrianne Maree Brown's words, that we are in an "Imagination Battle". I spoke about images and distorted representations (especially in Scandinavia), as well as the challenges of contemporary interventions aiming to address inequalities, such as colourless casting. It was a lot of fun. Following up from this I was asked to republish a short piece I wrote called "Decolonial Thinking for Beginners" , by collaborating arts organisation PRAKSIS. The original text was written for "tweenies" (10-12 year olds), but people liked it, so I was asked to share again. The text is available for download HERE: https://www.praksisoslo.org/news-list/decolonialthinking
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