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Nettrice Gaskins

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Artistic Intelligence vs. Generative AI: Old Ideas, New Tensions

Human artistic intelligence (HAI) refers to a “system of capacities for perception, sensing, discernment, insight, activity, choice-making…

Jun 03, 2025 · 5 min read · 233 claps #artistic-intelligence #ai-generative-art #techno-vernacular

Artistic Intelligence vs. Generative AI: Old Ideas, New Tensions

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D’Angelo’s Afro-Modernism Pt. 1 & The Torch He Carried for Us

On March 20th, 2000, during an electrifying live performance at Radio City Music Hall, we were swaying along with the ‘neo-soul’ music…

Nov 03, 2025 · 7 min read · 231 claps #dangelo #black-music #afro-modernity

D’Angelo’s Afro-Modernism Pt. 1 & The Torch He Carried for Us

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Midjourney and the Science of Color

Color theory is both the science and art of using color. It explains how humans perceive color; and the visual effects of how colors mix…

May 23, 2023 · 3 min read · 141 claps #color-theory #midjourney #josef-albers

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What is Rock & Roll?: A History of Black Innovation & Erasure

Prelude

Apr 18, 2026 · 8 min read · 90 claps #race-record #rhythm-and-blues #rock-and-roll

What is Rock & Roll?: A History of Black Innovation & Erasure

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Preventing ‘Legacy Loss’: The Afrofuturist Vision of pgLang

The Overview

Feb 17, 2025 · 7 min read · 75 claps #kendrick-lamar #pglang #afrofuturism

Preventing ‘Legacy Loss’: The Afrofuturist Vision of pgLang

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The Afrofuturism of Kendrick Lamar

Raise my hands to a fallen sky, I fantasize Me jumpin’ planets immortalized, I correspond…

Dec 26, 2025 · 7 min read · 65 claps #afrofuturism #kendrick-lamar #pglang

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The P-Funk Algorithm: George Clinton vs. the World

The first thing [old-school musicians] worried about is that computers was gonna take our place when it came to instruments — which they…

May 27, 2026 · 6 min read · 57 claps #george-clinton #black-ethos #generative-ai

The P-Funk Algorithm: George Clinton vs. the World

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Remixing Reality: AI, Art & the New Cultural Fabric

In a previous article, I defined culture as a shared, learned set of symbols, values, heroes, rituals, and practices that define a group’s…

Apr 12, 2026 · 8 min read · 54 claps #generative-ai #culturally-relevant #culturally-responsive

Remixing Reality: AI, Art & the New Cultural Fabric

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Dataland & the Shifting Art Landscape

In 2018, a “landmark” AI-generated artwork created by the Paris-based collective Obvious sold for $432,500 at Christies Auction House…

May 01, 2026 · 5 min read · 52 claps #generative-ai-artwork #ai-ethics #culturally-relevant

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Mental Wellness & GenAI: Inner Speech to Prompting

Wellness is defined as the active, lifelong process of making intentional choices and adopting lifestyles that promote holistic health. It…

May 21, 2026 · 5 min read · 50 claps #mental-wellness #inner-speech #generative-ai

Mental Wellness & GenAI: Inner Speech to Prompting

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Culturally Relevant GenAI +Traditional Art & Craft Practices

Many of the patterns in different cultural art forms demonstrate the transfer of ancestral knowledge across generations. Artifacts such…

Dec 16, 2023 · 3 min read · 34 claps #culturally-relevant-ed #ai-generative-art #art-and-craft

Culturally Relevant GenAI +Traditional Art & Craft Practices

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Technology of a Heart: My Tribute to Susan Klimczak

The technology of the heart is love, the art of relationships with people. — Mel King

Apr 19, 2025 · 5 min read · 30 claps #makerspaces #susan-klimczak #mel-king

Technology of a Heart: My Tribute to Susan Klimczak

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Fishing Differently: pgLang’s ‘Project 3’

Last February I wrote “Preventing ‘Legacy Loss’: The Afrofuturist Vision of pgLang” to document the emergence of pgLang, a…

Jul 31, 2025 · 4 min read · 5 claps #pglang #blackownedbusiness #kendrick-lamar

Fishing Differently: pgLang’s ‘Project 3’

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The Zelig Effect: Rap, Identity & Authenticity in the Age of AI

I want so badly to be liked…

Jul 07, 2025 · 5 min read · 4 claps #zelig #cultural-authenticity #hip-hop

The Zelig Effect: Rap, Identity & Authenticity in the Age of AI

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Tales My Mother Told Me: My Thoughts on Resilience

Resilience is the ability to adapt, cope, and recover from adversity, trauma, significant stressors, and other difficult life experiences…

Oct 02, 2025 · 6 min read · 3 claps #ai-generative-art #resilience #youth-development

Tales My Mother Told Me: My Thoughts on Resilience

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TVC 2.0: Fostering AI Literacy & Creative Thinking

Media literacy was once a foundational course to help people develop their capacity to critically analyze messages, broaden their…

Jul 12, 2025 · 6 min read · 3 claps #creativeai #ai-literacy #techno-vernacular

TVC 2.0: Fostering AI Literacy & Creative Thinking

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Dream Variations: 2025 in Review

Langston Hughes’ “Dream Variations” uses day/night, light/dark imagery to contrast the joyful, free life dreamed by Black people in the…

Dec 29, 2025 · 7 min read · 2 claps #2025-in-review #langston-hughes #generative-ai

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Crafting AI: TVC, Storytelling & Speculative Design

Quilting, the act of joining multiple patches or scraps and layers of fabric together, is used to describe patterning, storytelling, data…

May 09, 2025 · 5 min read · 1 claps #quilting #speculative-design #afrofuturism

Crafting AI: TVC, Storytelling & Speculative Design

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Art Education & Digital Literacy in the Age of AI

Beginning in the early 1800s, art classes slowly became integrated into public schools in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and other…

Feb 19, 2026 · 4 min read · 1 claps #art-education #digital-divide #digital-literacy

Art Education & Digital Literacy in the Age of AI

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Remixing Palettes With Hip Hop Designers

I want to be able to introduce kids to fashion design through Gucci now. So why keep them up under this umbrella of hip-hop architecture…

Sep 15, 2025 · 5 min read · 0 claps #design-cypher #hip-hop-architecture #techno-vernacular

Remixing Palettes With Hip Hop Designers

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Sun Ra, Kendrick Lamar and the Emergence of ‘oklama’

Jazz maverick and proto-Afrofuturist Sun Ra was born Herman Blount on May 22, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama. He was nicknamed “Sonny” from…

Feb 24, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #sun-ra #kendrick-lamar #oklama

Sun Ra, Kendrick Lamar and the Emergence of ‘oklama’

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The Parabolic Journey of Fred Eversley

A parabola is a U-shaped curve that is the graph of a quadratic function. The standard equation of a parabola is used to represent a…

Mar 19, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #fred-eversley #steam-learning #visual-art