{"id":7159,"date":"2025-11-25T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/news-itp-alum-ari-melenciano-featured-in-the-age-of-black-metal-an\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:00:36","slug":"news-itp-alum-ari-melenciano-featured-in-the-age-of-black-metal-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/news-itp-alum-ari-melenciano-featured-in-the-age-of-black-metal-an\/","title":{"rendered":"ITP Alum Ari Melenciano Featured in “The Age of Black Metal”, an exhibition by Afrotectopia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Age of Black Metal<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Age of Black Metal <\/i>by Afrotectopia<\/h2>\n

George Segal Gallery and Kasser Theater Lobby
\n September 23 \u2013 December 14, 2025<\/b><\/p>\n

Black Metal<\/i> originated as a kitchen table art book that pushes the boundaries of space travel, science fiction, speculative design, Black culture, art, technology, and spirituality. The book emerged from an Afrotectopia-led incubator, in collaboration with MIT Media Lab\u2019s Space Exploration Initiative and NYU\u2019s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The project features contributions from artists Jordan Caldwell, Kordae Jatafa Henry, Jeremy Kamal, and ITP alum Ari Melenciano<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The Age of Black Metal<\/i> builds upon the foundational ideas of the book and translates the text into a fully immersive experience for visitors to explore each conceptual chapter\u2013from metaphysical training manuals, botanical consciousness, and self-alignment protocols\u2013through participatory installations. The exhibition is set centuries in the future, imagining a timeline where society has been profoundly shaped by the principles of Black Metal. Ultimately, visitors will not only bear witness to the societal effects of Black Metal, but also leave transformed in some way.<\/p>\n

The Age of Black Metal<\/i> invites all to imagine the futures that Black culture can build, if given space to expand without limit.<\/p>\n

Curated by Afrotectopia founder Ari Melenciano.<\/p>\n

Check out the full curator’s tour<\/a> and Montclair State’s university<\/a> and gallery’s<\/a> announcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Age of Black Metal<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The book developed through the Afrotectopia incubator in partnership with ITP and MIT\u2019s Space Exploration Initiative has been turned into an exhibition, now on view at the Montclair State University Gallery through December 14, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}