The Afrofuturist affair

The AfroFuturist Affair is a community formed to celebrate, strengthen, and promote Afrofuturistic and Black Scifi culture through creative events and creative writing.The Afrofuturist Affair has a correlative mission of using the proceeds from our events to fund a $500 community grant. The grant, known as The Futurist Fund will be dedicated to serving the needs of members of an under-served community annually. The AfroFuturist Affair tumblr provides friends, supporters, historians, and aliens with archives on the first event, updates on Afro-future events, present goings-ons, and to exchange language, images, memories, notes, and energies with other Futurists across cyberspace/time. We practice and revere Ancient Wisdom, Mythology, Liberation, History, Future, Metaphysics, Sacred Math, Prophecy, Science, Trippy, Music, Gods, Art. Anything that one could use as a tool to survive yesterday, today, and tomorrow

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Moor Mother's "After Images" is an empowering march for the darkest times

The Philadelphia artist pulls the bottom out from the comfortable and apathetic.

The Philadelphia artist pulls the bottom out from the comfortable and apathetic.

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Time Camp 001 Call for Proposals: 

In collaboration with Icebox Project Space, Time Camp 001 is a two-day program and interactive installation exploring time, alternative temporalities, time travel, and temporal shifts, with activities include temporal sound design, time walks, temporal scavenger hunts, zinemaking, special performances, and more. Time Camp 001 will take place at the space-time point of September 30-Oct 1, 2017 at Icebox Project Space (Phila, PA). More details soon. We are inviting submissions for workshops and lectures, as well as art-based submissions for inclusion in the installation. Workshop and Lecture Submission Information Seeking abstracts and proposals for 45 and 60 minute workshops and lectures for presentation at Time Camp. Please identify any audio/visual and electrical needs for your presentation. Also include presenter information and website if available. Please submit a proposal for your submission to [email protected] by June 20, 2017. Sample topics include: Time Travel Theories/Time Travel 101 Time Machine Design Time Travel in Comics Installation Submission information Seeking submissions of small installations, film, audio/video, literature, photography, objects, and art pieces dealing with time travel, such as personal time machines and devices and time travel artifacts. Works can be individual or collaborative, and should be experimental. Proposals should include a description of your project or piece, including dimensions, sizes, number, and other specifications. Please identify any audio/visual and electrical needs. Also include artist information and website if available. Please submit a proposal for your submission to [email protected] by June 20, 2017. For more information please contact [email protected]

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Telescoping Effect, Pt. 1 by Rasheedah Phillips Find out more at: http://futuresciences.storenvy.com/products/18987163-the-telescoping-effect-pt-1

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Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice (2015)

“Black Quantum Futurism (or BQF) is a new approach to living and experiencing reality by way of the manipulation of space-time in order to see into possible futures, and/or collapse space-time into a desired future in order to bring about that future’s reality. This vision and practice derives its facets, tenets, and qualities from quantum physics, futurist traditions, and Black/African cultural traditions of consciousness, time, and space. Inside of the space where these three traditions intersect exists a creative plane that allows for the ability of African-descended people to see “into,” choose, or create the impending future.

Featuring visions by Rasheedah Phillips, Moor Mother Goddess, Warren C. Longmire, Almah Lavon, Joy Kmt, Thomas Stanley, PhD, and Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani, PhD.”

By Rasheedah Phillips  (Author, Compiler)

Get it  now here

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Nobody escapes the way machines scramble identity at the push of a button, turns the soul into sound-fx with the greatest of ease. Instead of retreating from machinic mutation back into an ethics of sound, UR is mutation-positive. The sampler is a mandate to recombinate - so it’s useless lamenting appropriation. Resisting replication is like doing without oxygen. The sampler doesn’t care who you are.

Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (1998)

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When forces of fear conspire to steal your power… Fight back. Rise up. RAIN. A fan film about Ororo Munroe during a dark and dangerous time. Created by and starring @mayastormx Watch the entire 23 minute film here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_W-PBfO57o Pass it on and on.

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@blackquantumfuturism creative @moor-mother featured in Billy Penn article on debut album #FetishBones http://billypenn.com/2016/09/23/why-buzzy-philly-artist-moor-mother-keeps-her-rhymes-as-simple-as-possible/

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Fetish Bones, by Moor Mother

13 track album

up on bandcamp!

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GO GET FETISH BONES RIGHT NOW ON BANDCAMP

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Moogfest, happening May 18-21 in Durham, NC, has adopted a new tactic this year for releasing its lineup, sharing out snippets of information on a weekly basis. The biggest Moogfest announcement of the past week was the addition of a new theme to the “Future Thought” lineup: Black Quantum Futurism.

The theme, co-presented by Moogfest artist Moor Mother and Philadelphia-based collectives The Afrofuturist Affair and Metropolarity, “explores the intersections of futurism, creative media, DIY-aesthetics, and activism in marginalized communities through an alternative temporal lens. It uses quantum physics, futurist traditions, and Black and African diasporic cultural traditions of consciousness, time, and space to develop temporal technologies that are more beneficial to marginalized peoples’ survival in a “high-tech” world currently dominated by oppressive, fatalistic linear time constructs,” according to the festival website.

The agenda of the theme’s organizers? To “dive into a deeper understanding of self, representation, and consciousness through a Sci-Fi lens … through an array of workshops and conversations.”

“Afrofuturism” has been a theme of past Moogfests, and the new theme is presented as an evolution, or perhaps a further exploration, of that term, which was both questioned and lauded at last year’s event by panelists. How is “Black Quantum Futurism” different? According to Moor Mother, it’s about expansion rather than differentiation.“

Oh, and because it’s Moogfest, there’s a playlist for it.

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honestly the rest of us in the crew are more or less lurking & getting a handle on our lives, so if you want more fire ish to get into definitely follow @communityfutureslab​ & @blackquantumfuturism on Instagram

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Black/Surveillance

Black/Surveillance is a feature-length documentary that examines the intersection of Blackness and surveillance in the United States. Using lenses of anti-blackness and afrofuturism, the film probes what surveillance means to Black people and what is being done to resist the hyper surveillance state that is compounded by Blackness. 

Surveillance has become a part of everyday life. Surveillance exists in the security camera on every block, the phones we carry, and our social media. This has propelled a discussion around surveillance over the past couple of years from people like Edward Snowden, but how do we contextualize surveillance under white supremacy? Does everyone experience the same types of surveillance?  What is the history of surveillance for Black people from enslavement to present day.

The Film Black/Surveillance will Specifically focus on those who are most marginalized the intersection of Blackness and surveillance: Black trans people, Black undocumented people, Black women, Black homeless people, and Black incarcerated people. The film will be a mix of personal narratives and interviews expounding on the questions above and how people envision their own spaces, worlds, freedoms and the ways in which they escape surveillance. These means of escape range from encryption to performance, dreams and meditations.

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same, daveed, same

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AN AFROFUTURISTIC TRIP TRAILER from michael anthony barnes-wynters on Vimeo.

trailer for immersive broadcast performance, exploring afrofuturism at the barbican

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Sun Ra - Singles - Strut Records’ complete singles collection is out!

Strut present a new definitive collection of singles released by jazz maverick Sun Ra during his Earth years, spanning 1952 to 1991. Released prolifically during the 1950s and more sporadically thereafter, primarily on the Saturn label, the 45s offer one-off meteorites from Ra’s prolific cosmic journey, tracing the development of his forward-thinking “Space-Bop” and his unique take on jazz and blues traditions which sounded unlike anything else from the period. As with his LPs, most 45s were only pressed in small runs and were sold at gigs and have since become extremely rare and sought after. Some have only been discovered in physical form in recent years; some were planned and pencilled but allegedly never made it to vinyl and some appeared as one-off magazine singles and posthumous releases. ‘Singles’ will be released in various formats across two release dates. All formats feature fully remastered tracks, rare photos, poster artwork, extensive sleeve notes by Francis Gooding, an interview with Saturn Records founder Alton Abraham by John Corbett and detailed track by track and session notes by Paul Griffiths. The 45s box sets each feature a hardboard flip top box containing 10 x 45s in their original artwork along with a bound 28pp booklet. Release dates and formats: November 25th 2016: - all-encompassing 3CD and digital versions covering Ra’s full output from 1952-1991 - 3LP set Volume 1 covering 1952-1961 December 9th 2016 - 10 x 45 box set Volume 1 covering 1952-1961 (limited to 500 copies) March 2017: - 3LP set Volume 2 covering 1962-1991 - 10 x 45 box set Volume 2 covering 1962-1991 (limited to 500 copies)

[blackquantumfuturism]

@mmgzmmgz on @blackquantumfuturism in @thefader

[communityfutureslab]

Vision mapping the AfroFuture for ourselves and our communities at #communityfutureslab New Year in the AfroFuture discussion | #communityfutureslab #northphilly #communityfuturisms #sharswood (at Sharswood, Philadelphia)

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a brave new space | The Fifth Sense | i-D

Using time travel and afrofuturism, Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa are creating a community space for women to be empowered using art and music.

Using time travel and afrofuturism, Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa are creating a community space for women to be empowered using art and music.