Selected Works

Jazsalyn is an artist and technologist known for developing the concept of Ancestral Intelligence (2020-present), a framework exploring how early forms of knowledge systems, philosophies, and traditions are passed through generations within indigenous and diasporic communities. 

She is the Artistic Director of Black Beyond and lecturer at The New School.







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Natal Dimension

2023-ongoing, open-world game engine, variable duration

Natal Dimension is an ongoing series that travels through different eras in African history to recover traces of the original AI—Ancestral Intelligence. It channels multi-level dimensions through artifacts, sound, and supernatural phenomena in a cinematic spatial environment.

RP 002

2020-ongoing, two-channel, machine learning video installation

RPX / REIMAGINE Prototype series is a long-term computational study and an attempt to refigure lost, indigenous and extraterrestrial memory. RPX applies computer vision and machine learning techniques to juxtapose data archives from NASA Mars rover missions and The Metropolitan Museum African Collection. 

This iteration, RP 002, is installed as a two-channel video installation with a sandbox sculpture. 

Black Beyond

2019-ongoing, avant-garde, emerging technology, curatorial projects

Black Beyond is an experimental project where anti-disciplinary artists imagine alternate realities for blackness.

_origins

2021, group exhibition, virtual game engine, variable duration

_origins is a Black Beyond festival defining black femme futures through new media art and hybrid environments. 

The multi-day event featured the work of over 25 artists, performers and cultural workers within virtual landscapes to reorient time and reclaim agency through archived conversations, workshops and sound rituals. 

revisions

2023, abstract visual language set developed for revisions, a media platform created by the re:arc institute for conversations around architectures of planetary well-being.