Technology & Culture

Creative work at the intersection of AI and Afro-diasporic storytelling.

For over two decades I've used music, visual art, and storytelling to explore how technology shapes cultural identity, ownership, and creative agency.

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Audio/Visual Asset
AI & Music Production 2024

Daughter of the Sun

AI-Assisted Concept Album

An AI-assisted concept album exploring what happens to authorship and cultural specificity when generative tools enter the production process.

This project revealed that commercial AI platforms consistently steer output toward generic Western conventions, requiring strong artistic intent to maintain cultural tone.

AI Production Authorship Mythology
Avatar Prototype
AI & Identity 2023

BigbadAI

AI Artist Persona

An experimental AI artist persona built to test what happens when an avatar carries the creative identity rather than the human creator.

It raised questions about who controls the narrative when the "artist" is a construct and the human behind it steps back.

Identity Representation Ethics
Collaborative Network
Ownership & Empowerment 2021-2022

Black Kid Miracles

Global Creative Collective

A conceptual project uniting artists from the UK, USA, Kenya, and Jamaica around themes of technology, ownership, and empowerment.

Demonstrated that hip hop and storytelling could carry complex technology themes to audiences who are rarely centered in these conversations.

Pan-Africanism Access Community
Blockchain Mapping
Web3 & Culture 2020-2021

TechRap / Blockchain

Platform & Digital Ownership

TechRap is a platform built to raise awareness of technology's role in culture, leading to "Jumped Off The Block Onto Blockchain"—a concept album on NFTs.

Both projects tested whether hip hop's cultural reach could make emerging technologies feel relevant and urgent to Afro-diasporic communities.

Web3 Digital Rights Platform

What's Next?

This body of work forms the foundational research for Portals of Prophecy, an R&D project investigating how AI tools shape creative work rooted in African traditions.

Research begins June 2026. Follow the project.