Louis Chude-Sokei

Louis Chude-Sokei is a Nigerian born, Jamaican raised scholar and writer whose work includes the award-winning, The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015), the acclaimed memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way (2021) and the German publication, Technologie Und Race: Essays Der Migration (2023). He teaches at Boston University and directs the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program. He is editor of The Black Scholar, one of the oldest and leading journals of Black Studies. Chude-Sokei is also founder of the sonic art and archival project, Echolocution. He collaborates with artists including iconic electronic experimentalists, Mouse on Mars with whom he made the Artificial Intelligence powered album, AAI (2021) and the legendary Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company that adapted his work for their recent touring performance, Curriculum II. He was co-curator of Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Festival of Afrofuturism as well as curator and lead artist for Sometimes You Just Have to Give it Your Attention, a multi-year sound art project at the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany which concluded this year.

Projects:

• AI.Assembly CoLAB
• Open Access: AI.Assembly