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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