Allied Media Conference 2022: Afropresentism Track

  • Taking place from Thursday June 30th to Sunday July 2nd, the 22nd annual Allied Media Conference explored emerging futures at the intersection of art, technology, education, media, and visionary resistance/organizing. It featured over 180 sessions including hands-on workshops, meet-ups for community-building, and potent convenings for strategizing and dreaming.

  • This year’s Allied Media Conference featured 10 sessions curated under the theme of Afropresentism with the following guiding framework:

    “As Black diasporic people living in the age of Big Data, how do we navigate what Kodwo Eshun terms the “Age of Total Recall”?

    Coming together as archeologists of buried histories and architects of the future’s fossils, we meet in the Present tasked with alchemizing our displacement into transcendence.

    Drawing on Black diasporic technologies of improvisation and incantation, alongside frameworks of speculative/ritual design, this track invited participants to construct interventions for the here and now.”

  • Tsige Tafesse

    Yaa Addae

  • Qiaira Riley

    Exploring virtual imitations of Black femmehood & investigating how artists push up against the inherent colonization of the internet.

  • Liz Mputu

    A mixture of a screening of Liz’s piece: ‘the 5 elemental breaths n wen 2 use them wen experiencing stress during the following Facebook interactions*’, and a cyber-wellness hotline entitled comfortCalls—a simulated tele-health experience and virtual oasis.

  • Intelligent Mischief

    This collaborative world building design lab invites Black folks to dream, imagine, conjure, strategize towards, embody, ritualize and co-create futures/nows in which we are thriving, joyful, sovereign and free and create embodied artifacts, illicit objects and codes, to cultivate that memory and to whisper the truth of that future to others

  • Neema Githere

    What would happen if all Black, queer content creators left Instagram? What could a call for reparations from Meta (Facebook), Inc. look like? How do we use divestment as a strategy to confront the social, psychological, and political harm inflicted by Facebook's platforms?

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