Fantastic Ingenuity: Imagine Feeling Something brings together seven distinguished Black artists from the University of Washington and the Seattle area in collaboration with Spam New Media Festival.  Through a rich blend of digital arts, textiles, fashion, visual art, performance, and storytelling, this exhibition will engage with the multifaceted conversation of Afrofuturism.

Afrofuturism, as defined by Black cinema scholar Kara Keeling, blends technology, imagination, futurity, and liberation. These principles are central to Black studies, focusing on Black liberation and the expression of Black life across intersections. Our exhibition aims to showcase how Black, queer imaginations leverage and reimagine technology as the practice of creating innovative and creative methods to reach communal goals and desires. We ask, how do Black and queer imagination use technology to envision and create sustainable futures that honor Black life?




Artists:


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Performance:


BLUE.WEAVE the INVENTOR




Installations:


Le’Ecia Farmer
Ramon Johnson
LaJuné McMillian & Marguerite Hemmings
K.C. Smith
Meshell Sturgis




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