Biography

Jazsalyn is an artist and researcher who works where fiction and reality collide. Through alternative media and re-indigenization, she explores issues regarding data loss, memory restoration, and Ancestral Intelligence. 

As a form of worlding new counter-futures, she works with ancestral archives and space data to explore new AI models, game engines, interactive video art, installation, and social thought experiments.

Jazsalyn has designed experiments and presented work at New Inc, New Museum, and Creative Time. As a lecturer at The New School, she has built curricula on African and Diaspora rituals as speculative technology. She is the Artistic Director of the experimental curatorial project Black Beyond, where she has curated exhibitions and experiences to envision alternate realities for Blackness with Serpentine Arts Technologies, Pioneer Works, Onassis ONX, The New School, and more. 

Through her artistic practice, she is developing Afropocalypse, a new conceptual framework and forthcoming exhibition reframing Afropessimism through the context of survival and regeneration despite multidimensional cycles of apocalypse within Black and Indigenous communities. 

Her work has been featured in publications such as Cultured, It’s Nice That, Vogue, and The New Yorker. 





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Selected Exhibitions 

2025    Data Fluencies, Data Fluencies Project at Boston Cyber Arts, Boston, MA
2023    Extended Realities, DEMO, NEW INC, New Museum with OXN Studio, New York, NY
2022    Life, The Universe, and Everything: Don’t Panic, 3hd Festival by Creamcake at soft power, Germany
2022    Xtensions, NEW INC, New Museum with OXN Studio, New York, NY
2022    Black Beyond _Assembly, Alchemy, Ascension [a^3 =b^2], Kellen Gallery, New York, NY
2021     Black Beyond _origins, New Art City, Online 
2021     Wheaton Biennial, _final _final _FINAL, Beard and Weil Gallery, MA
2020    Creative Code Art Festival, Black Gaze, Lightbox, New York, NY


Curatorial Projects

2024   Black Beyond Warpmode Series, Metalabel, Onassis ONX, Pioneer Works, New York, NY
2022   The Kitchen Gala After-party Experience by Black Beyond, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2022   Black Beyond _Assembly, Alchemy, Ascension [a^3 =b^2], Kellen Gallery, New York, NY
2021    Black Beyond _origins, New Art City 
2020   Cloud Salon, Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2017    Geecheebond, The Mothership, NC


Awards and Recognitions

2024   Onassis ONX Member
2024   Fellow, BPMplus, Black Public Media
2023   Grantee, SEEK, Raleigh Arts
2022   Grantee, Next Web, NEW INC, Meta Open Arts
2022   Grantee, Explorer Award, Unfinished, Filecoin Foundation
2022   NEW INC, Extended Reality Cohort with EY Metaverse Lab, New Museum
2021    NEW INC, Extended Reality Cohort, New Museum
2021    Grantee, Fiscal Sponsorship, New York Foundation of the Arts
2020   Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice Representative, Parsons School of Design
2019    Provost Merit Scholar, The New School, Parsons School of Design
2012    Grantee, Southern Designer, Belk Incorporated
2010    Pack Promise Scholar, North Carolina State University


Lectures, Panels and Symposia

2024    COLORSxSTUDIOS, Tones Festival Panel with Metalabel, New York, NY
2024    Worldbuilding Untold Stories, Presented by Black Public Media, Game Devs of Color Expo, Online
2024    Natal Dimension, Creative Time, New York, NY

2023    Black Beyond Game Night, Creative Time, New York, NY     
2023    Extended Realities, DEMO, NEW INC, New Museum, New York, NY
2023    Today at Apple, Art Lab: Building Worlds and 3D Afro Artifacts, Apple, New York, NY
2023    Building Inclusive Design Cultures, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 

2022    (alt) reality, Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2022    Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness Panel, The New School, New York, NY 

2021    (alt) reality, Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 
2021    Abolition Planning and Afrofuturism, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
2021    Wheaton Biennial, _final_final_FINAL, Beard and Weil Gallery, MA
2021    Art on the Ground, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2020   afro-nowism_soundscape rituals_ep III, Black Beyond, Navel Cultural Organization, CA
2020   afro-nowism_writing abolition futures_ep II, Black Beyond, Online
2020   Speculative Design for Safe Spaces, Processing Foundation, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

2017    Future Thought, Textile as a Second Skin, Moogfest, Moog Music, NC
2017    PULSE, The Making Center, James B. Hunt Library, North Carolina State University, NC