You sit in a pink-hued “neurocosmetology” lab, your feet dangling off the salon chair, tentacle-like electrodes hanging down above you. You’re here for an appointment to get your hair styled—and at the same time, increase the neuroplasticity of your brain.
This is just one piece of the fantastical future envisioned in NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism, an art installation, in-development virtual reality experience, and ongoing research project that surfaced at this year’s Sundance New Frontier exhibit.
The project is the brainchild of Hyphen-Labs, an international collective of women working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Ashley Baccus-Clark, Nitzan Bartov, and Ece Tankal have created a vibrant Afrofuturist world in which women of color are leading advances in science, technology, finance, and art.
Baccus-Clark said that a major motivation for the project was to encourage young women of color “who might not necessarily know that...
This is just one piece of the fantastical future envisioned in NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism, an art installation, in-development virtual reality experience, and ongoing research project that surfaced at this year’s Sundance New Frontier exhibit.
The project is the brainchild of Hyphen-Labs, an international collective of women working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Ashley Baccus-Clark, Nitzan Bartov, and Ece Tankal have created a vibrant Afrofuturist world in which women of color are leading advances in science, technology, finance, and art.
Baccus-Clark said that a major motivation for the project was to encourage young women of color “who might not necessarily know that...
- 2/3/2017
- by Sue Ding
- Indiewire
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