Jazsalyn

Jazsalyn (b. 1991; Raleigh, North Carolina) is an Afro-Carolinian artist and technologist using installation and gameplay as performance to explore cooperative futures for complex human-to-nonhuman knowledge systems. Jazsalyn developed Ancestral Intelligence (since 2020) as a framework for alternative AI: our earliest forms of knowledge systems, philosophies, and traditions passed down through generations within indigenous and diasporic communities. She experiments with video game engines to create emergent forms of video art by converting game environments into interactive landscapes to recover traces of ancestral data and memory. She also organizes Black Beyond, an experimental, artist-led curatorial project where she curates exhibitions and experiences to define alternate realities for (b)lackness. Her work has been supported by Serpentine Arts Technologies, Pioneer Works, New Museum’s NEW INC, Onassis ONX, MTA Arts & Design, Creative Time, among others, and has been featured in publications such as Contemporary And, Cultured, and The New Yorker.