curator / collector / artist / writer / cultural institution builder
I examine how culture is built, preserved and remembered in digital systems.
Working across art, technology and cultural memory. Founder & Executive Director of the Museum of Diasporan Digital Art.
founder & executive director
Museum of Diasporan Digital Art
MoDDA is a digital-native institution collecting, preserving, researching and exhibiting digital art, with a primary focus on artists of the Black diaspora.
It grows out of years of documenting, supporting and advocating for Black artists in digital culture, work that began with TheBlkChain.
Curatorial practice
Exhibitions, collection building and research into the conditions under which creative work is able to endure.
Collecting as practice
Digital works collected over six years. Collecting is central to my practice as an artist, curator and cultural steward. My personal collection is separate from the MoDDA collection.
Proof of Culture
Who controls the archive. What ownership means in digital culture. How power shapes creative futures.
A body of work examining art, technology, cultural memory and the politics of preservation, expressed through writing, conversation and exhibition.
Commentary
The written work, including the Substack essays and forthcoming book.
Conversations
The Proof of Culture podcast and ongoing conversations and oral histories with artists, collectors, curators and others working across digital culture.
Curation
The exhibition and research expression of Proof of Culture.
Artistic practice
