Kidus Hailesilassie’s design merges the boundaries between spatial practice and futures informed by Africa and its diasporic conditions. With a background in architecture and speculative world-building, his works focus on...
Jasmine Heyward is ODL's Communications and Events Production Coordinator, supporting outreach and operations. They were introduced to ODL's work while studying Digital and Interactive Storytelling at the University of Westminster in...
Moving Realities by Lori Landay is an experiment with using movement (gesture, everyday movement, kinetic control in XR experiences, and dance) for expressive purposes in interactive and immersive media. Moving Realities...
Lori Landay is an interdisciplinary teacher, scholar, and new media artist. She combines creative and theoretical work to explore subjectivity, commodification, and mixed realities in audiovisual culture, from silent movies...
Jack Dappa Blues by Lamont Pearley is a virtual, web-based repository of blues culture and traditions....
Lamont Jack Pearley is an applied folklorist, ethnographer and African American traditional music historian and practitioner enrolled at Western Kentucky University in the Broadcast, African American and Folk Studies graduate...
Damien McDuffie is a creative technologist, digital archivist, and augmented reality (AR) artist and developer from Oakland. He is the founder of Black Terminus AR, a camera app and augmented...
Bunce Island: Through the Mirror by Max Musau is an immersive digital learning tool. Over the course of two years, the intersectoral and interdisciplinary team will conduct ongoing research into historical...
WAVES OF BUFFALO is a transdisciplinary work by Tasha Hubbard and Jason Ryle. In the process of developing their feature film, SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO, Hubbard and Ryle became inspired...
Max Musau is the founder of Jiwe Interactive, a game studio and distribution platform, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has 10 years of experience in tech, developing platforms, tech-education programs,...