Louis Chude-Sokei’s work includes the award-winning scholarly work The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015), a critically acclaimed memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way (2021) and a collection of essays published last year in German, Technology Und Race: Essays Der Migration. He is a professor of English, the George and Joyce Wein Chair and director of the African American Studies Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of The Black Scholar, the premiere journal of Black Studies in the United States and founder of the sonic art and archival project, Echolocution. He’s collaborated with notable artists including iconic Berlin-based electronic experimentalists Mouse on Mars with whom he produced the 2021 album, Anarchic Artificial Intelligence (AAI) and legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones who adapted his work for his celebrated touring performance, Curriculum II. In 2021 Chude-Sokei was a curator of the Carnegie Hall Festival of Afrofuturism and is currently an advisor for the Guggenheim Museum’s Art and Technology Initiative in partnership with LG Electronics.