Ekene Ijeoma

Poetic Justice
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Why Ekene Ijeoma advocates to design for the citizen, not just the consumer

Ekene Ijeoma, head of the Poetic Justice research group, talks to Frame about his work.
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Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Equitable Technology

This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.
Oct. 30, 2020
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Americans speak more than 1,300 languages. This artist wants to capture them all

People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.
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Black Mobility and Safety Seminar

Ekene Ijeoma’s Black Mobility and Safety in the US course this academic year will include a series of public guest lectures.
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Ekene Ijeoma on drawing and sculpting with data for Friedman Benda's 'Design in Dialogue'

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma in conversation with Stephen Burks.
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This audio portrait of the 2020 census asks: Whose voices really count?

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to NPR about his work, from Deconstructed Anthems to A Counting.
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A Counting—Poetic Justice group call for multilingual speakers

Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.
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Ekene Ijeoma makes urgent art in the space between feeling and fact

In a fact-averse culture, this New York and Boston-based artist/designer brings them to the fore with his MIT group Poetic Justice.
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Ekene Ijeoma receives 2019 Creative Capital award

Creative Capital awards support innovative and adventurous artists across the United States.
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Ekene Ijeoma's Deconstructed Anthems

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Deconstructed Anthems at the Day for Night festival.

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Emmy-winning pianist Kris Bowers, Blue-note recording artist/trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and Grammy-nominated bassist Burniss Earl Travis perform Deconstructed Anthems.

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Burniss Earl Travis

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Ambrose Akinmusire

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Deconstructed Anthems is an ongoing series of music performances and light installations in which a self-playing piano and music ensemble deconstruct the Star-Spangled Banner, repeating it multiple times, removing notes at the rate of mass incarceration, and ending in silence. 

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Deconstructed Anthems

Deconstructed Anthems
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Ekene Ijeoma Joins the MIT Media Lab

In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.
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Monuments for a New Era

What should replace statues celebrating the Confederacy? Six artists imagine a way forward.
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Artist Ekene Ijeoma reflects on the charged life of the American Flag

The flag is a fixed object of the past which needs to become more fluid and in conversation with our present.