Ari Melenciano is an artist, technologist, researcher, and cultural theorist. Her art and research practice explores computational anthropology, societal subconscious intellect, the ethnographical morphing of artistic expression across diasporas, speculative design, the formation and embodiment of mythology and rituals, and the materialization of omni-scoped research in the form of quasi-pseudosciences. She currently teaches courses on emerging technologies like AI, art, and design at New York University. She is also the founder of Afrotectopia, a cultural institution that is imagining, researching, and building at the nexus of new media art, design, science, and technology through a Black and Afrocentric lens. She guest lectures at universities around the world. Previously, she was a technologist at Google’s Creative Lab and taught at The Pratt Institute, The New School, and Hunter College. Her work has been supported and published by Sundance, The New York Times, The Studio Museum of Harlem, MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative, Forbes, The Ford Foundation, and more.