Mastodawn

What can ancient cosmologies teach the future?

This month Kadallah Burrowes talks with Ytasha Womack about Afrofuturism as active world-building, how imagination, ancient cosmologies, rhythm, and storytelling shape more humane tech and the futures we’re already living.

Available now on:
Lookslikenew.net

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Y8jLIjtVghU6mnTr2bpTt?si=0aa9e4a1bf1f4e42&nd=1&dlsi=db7099749a7448b0

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/looks-like-new/id1451526347

#MEDLab #afrofuture #media #cosmotology

PHILLY ASK A PUNK Nov 16

Savan DePaul, Sensor Ghost, Erica Dawn Lyle, Pinkwash

God's Automatic Body, Friday, December 5 at 06:00 PM EST

visit www.gods.gay for accessibility info!

https://philly.askapunk.net/event/savan-depaul-sensor-ghost-erica-dawn-lyle-pinkwash

Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3 Aug 1, 2025

I asked #craiyon to produce an image with #Captain #BenjaminSisko as a #hamradio operator on the #holodeck for my #GRcon keynote and it just couldn't do it! I tried at least a dozen times and I even threw the reference image below at it but it still consistently produced images of #whitemen as #hams or #startrek captains. If #AI is the future, it sure looks like the past. #inclusion #whitesupremacy #dei #afrofuture #BlackMastodon

Ornella 🍉Dec 30, 2023

After years of life you'd think I'd have learned to pose better than this but.
Anyway #Afrofuture was great!

Ivy Aston Sep 25, 2023

My Soundcloud is where I publish unfinished work that may be suitable for collaboration.

The latest is a piece about an experimental hybrid lifeform in a dystopic future.

#musicproduction #electronic #cyberpunk #afrofuture #cinematic #soundtrack #experimental

https://soundcloud.com/holycrone/the-hybrid

The Hybrid

A piece about an experimental hybrid lifeform in a dystopic future, vacillating between double and triple time to convey the essence of the conflict within. I thought it could go somewhere even more w

SoundCloud

Martin Apr 25, 2023

Space is the place!
Pitchfork article from 2016 on Sun Ra which someone on Hackernews rediscovered.
#afrofuture

https://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/9866-the-interstellar-style-of-sun-ra/

The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra

How the space jazz icon’s radical and regal garments projected a hopeful realm outside of the very troubled real world.

Pitchfork

The Way of Accountability Dec 30, 2022

assassin #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfedi #blackart #blackwomen #afrofuture #digitalart

Author J. R. Damon Dec 17, 2022

working with #AI this morning to manifest a better future for humanity

story by #GPT3 and me
art by #midjourney and me

#artificialintelligence #afrofuturism #afrofuture #pygmy #spirituality #occult #cybernetic #cyborg #transhumanism #posthumanism #africa #nature #psychedelic #DMT #future #earth #gaia

Ann F Dec 16, 2022

#Afrofuture design and #3dprinting processes for costumes in #WakandaForever. https://www.dezeen.com/2022/12/08/wakanda-forever-black-panther-costume-design-ruth-carter-interviews/

"We couldn't go as soft as we did in the first film" says Wakanda Forever costume designer Ruth E Carter

Oscar-winning superhero film Black Panther paved the way for a bolder approach to fashion in its sequelWakanda Forever, costume designer Ruth E. Carter tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview.

Dezeen

Spearhafoc Sep 4, 2020

The Apex Society #17 Page 18. #art #webcomics #comics #webcomic #makecomics #afrofuturism #afrofuture #afrofuturist #pulp

http://apexsociety.thecomicseries.com/

The Hybrid

The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra

"We couldn't go as soft as we did in the first film" says Wakanda Forever costume designer Ruth E Carter

The Apex Society - The Apex Society #21 Pages 16-17