Afrofuturism is a philosophy, an aesthetic, a creative revolution and a term coined by Mark Dery in 1993 that is a celebration and liberation of Black imagination. Exploring inner and outer space, Afrofuturism expands the stereotype of what black art “should” center, speaking to the African diaspora through techno-culture and science fiction. Dery said it best that Afrofuturism goes “Black to the Future” to unchain the mind and build a new world without the influence of European colonizers. The Creative Conversation will tour through Afrofuturism’s legacy founders like Sun Ra, George Clinton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Octavia Butler, and travel contemporary passageways of work like Steam Funk, Black Panther, and Carbo Nerdiest, discussing artists like Erykah Badu, Janelle Monáe, Solange, and more.
