Selected Works

Jazsalyn is an Afro-Carolinian artist and technologist developing Ancestral Intelligence (2020-present) as a framework for alternative AI: our earliest forms of knowledge systems, philosophies, and traditions passed down through generations within indigenous and diasporic communities.






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Ancestral Intelligence Network: Echolocation

2026, video game, variable duration

Ancestral Intelligence Network: Echolocation is a 3D map and growing database of ancestral intelligence placed inside a video game environment. The multi-layered landscape is embedded with spatial audio and interviews introducing different perspectives of ancestral intelligence across Africa and its diaspora. This iteration was commissioned by New Museum's NEW INC in partnership with EY Intelligent Realities Lab.  

Remember, Gullah Island

2025, five-channel video game, variable duration

Remember, Gullah Island is an alternate-reality work where ancestral spirits wander through digital renders of the Gullah Geechee Corridor. Stretching alongside the Atlantic coastal plains of North Carolina to Florida, the Corridor is a National Heritage area of cultural significance to West and Central Africa and the disapora.

Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design at LIRR Grand Central Madison.

Natal Dimension

2022-ongoing, video game, variable duration

Natal Dimension is an ongoing series that travels through different eras in African history to recover traces of ancestral intelligence, the earliest form of AI. It channels multi-level dimensions through artifacts, sound, and supernatural phenomena in a cinematic spatial environment.

RP 002

2020-ongoing, two-channel, machine learning video installation

RPX / REIMAGINE Prototype is a speculative computational study refiguring lost indigenous and extraterrestrial memory.

Initiated in 2020, RPX introduces concepts for alternative AI, grounded in ancestral intelligence and developed through a series of computer vision and machine learning experiments using archival data from NASA's Mars Exploration rover missions and The Metropolitan Museum of Art's African Collection.

This iteration, RP 002, was installed as a two-channel video installation with a sandbox sculpture. 

Black Beyond

2019-ongoing, avant-garde, emerging technology, curatorial projects

Black Beyond is an experimental project where anti-disciplinary artists imagine alternate realities for (b)lackness.

_origins

2021, group exhibition, web-based game engine, variable duration

_origins is a Black Beyond festival defining black femme futures through new media art and hybrid environments. 

The multi-day event featured the work of over 25 artists, performers and cultural workers within virtual landscapes to reorient time and reclaim agency through archived conversations, workshops and sound rituals. 

revisions

2023, abstract visual language set developed for revisions, a media platform created by the re:arc institute for conversations around architectures of planetary well-being.