{"id":2391,"date":"2023-12-14T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steamfest23\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2023-12-14T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:08:12","slug":"afrofuturism-and-its-impact-on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/2023\/12\/14\/afrofuturism-and-its-impact-on-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrofuturism and its Impact on Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khadija Fall<\/p>\n<p>I have always had an interest in the concept of afrofuturism, and this project gave me the medium to explore it. I was able to research one of my favorite artists and deeply analyze his work in the context of our society. I want people to understand just how deep the roots of the black experience run, and how it impacts every aspect of life and art.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steamfest23\/index.php?gf-download=2023%2F12%2FMCHC-1001-Art-Presentation.pdf&amp;form-id=4&amp;field-id=9&amp;hash=6c9f146494ed29f97bd0e35716c4e6f61f5340c4c0d88d1725ee7aa319c5ee62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View My Project<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Afrofuturism mixes sci-fi and social justice. Here\u2019s how it works.\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlPwTMMhGGI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is the video embedded in my slides.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My presentation was about Afrofuturism and the impacts it has had on art. In this presentation I analyzed various works from artist Kehinde Wiley through an afrofuturist lens, and addressed the revolutionary way in which Wiley reshapes the past using aspects of the present to speculate towards a hopeful future for black people across the diaspora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,89,26,67,78],"tags":[132,222,701],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-brooklyn","category-diversity","category-seminar-1-the-arts-in-nyc","category-trivedi-saam","tag-afrofuturism","tag-black-art","tag-old-master-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}