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Black Quantum Futurism

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Coming Soon || Quantum AfroFuturology || AfroForesight || Nu Light Speed || Future Black Realities
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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 afrofuturistaffair@gmail.com 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 afrofuturistaffair@gmail.com by June 20, 2017. For more information please contact afrofuturistaffair@gmail.com

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“The lens of the project is housing. And housing is the most important stabilizing factor for people individually and for communities. If the housing situations aren’t proper then nothing is proper really. talking about housing experiences gets at how people [and communities] experience time.” - @blackquantumfuturism on @i_d about #communityfutureslab | https://thefifthsense.i-d.co/en_us/article/meet-community-futures-lab/ 📷 @tonjethilesen

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Our books come with soundscapes {or, our soundscapes come with books}! Check out Telescoping Effect soundscape at @ blackquantumfuturism.bandcamp.com and all the albums to our other #zines and books

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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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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.
Source: ashevillegrit.com
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It’s tricky because Africa is a big and curious concept. Millions of people, thousands of cultural groups, languages. And the future isn’t even a thing. There are too many variables.

Lebogang Rasethaba in an interview on afrofuturism and African futures (via azaniacy)

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#communityfutureslab project director talks with @phillymag about Sharswood, temporality, and community in response to the City’s RFP to redevelop homes in the neighborhood where the MOVE bombing occurred - link in bio

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