PDA Event: Afrofuturism (ART & ALGORHYTHMS)

Spend some time with Dr. Gaskins who is taking the world by storm! 

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-debut-groundbreaking-futures-exhibition-its-175th-anniversary 
http://panthernow.com/2021/03/12/a-i-and-african-art-meet-at-new-frost-museum-exhibit/

Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is an African American digital artist, academic, cultural critic and advocate of STEAM fields. In her work she explores "techno-vernacular creativity" and Afrofuturism.  Dr. Gaskins’ work explores how to generate art using algorithms in different ways, especially through coding. She also teaches, writes, "fabs" or makes, and does other things. She has taught multimedia, computational media, visual art, and even Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles with high school students who majored in the arts.   

Dr. Gaskins earned a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She received a doctorate in Digital Media from Georgia Tech in 2014. She has taught at the secondary and post-secondary levels in the Boston Public Schools and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Currently, Dr. Gaskins is the assistant director of the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab at Lesley University. She will publish her first full-length book, Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation through The MIT Press.

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