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Media Economies Design Lab
2025︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
BOULDER
The Media Economies Design Lab is a research lab within the College of Communication, Media, Design and Information at the University of Colorado.
The lab experiments with democratic ownership and governance in the online economy.
Within the lab, my focus is on community technology, cooperative economics, and democratic praxis. As a research fellow, I have contributed to a publication (the Open Social Network Cookbook), hosted events (the Cookbook Launch event and Protocol Ecologies Symposium), and produced episodes of our monthly radio show, Looks Like New.
The lab experiments with democratic ownership and governance in the online economy.
Within the lab, my focus is on community technology, cooperative economics, and democratic praxis. As a research fellow, I have contributed to a publication (the Open Social Network Cookbook), hosted events (the Cookbook Launch event and Protocol Ecologies Symposium), and produced episodes of our monthly radio show, Looks Like New.
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ANANSI Revolutionary Collective
2022︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
INTERNATIONAL
The ANANSI Revolutionary Collective (ARC000) is a pan-African arts collective that stewards a commons of material resources, infrastructure, people-power, and knowledge. The collective is developing the ANANSI philosophy, which is one of Black holistic distribution, seeking to disrupt mass centralization across various disciplines. The collective continually experiments with an emergent collection of collaborative praxis, including collective budgeting, consensus-based decision making, rotational responsibility, reparational funding, and collective mythmaking. We are building a governance model structured around a participatory protocol, which will include guidelines around membership, voting, praxis and project management, and altering the protocol.
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ANANZINE
2025︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
INTERNATIONAL
The ANANZINE is an electronic zine exploring the shift from capitalism to vectoralism, where data has become a new form of super-capital controlled by tech elites. It examines how information technologies have transformed our economic and political systems, creating a new era of protocological control where data invisibly determines material conditions. The project critiques the harmful uses of data by our ruling class while advocating for reclaiming agency through decentralized technology and social praxis.
Distributed via physical USB cards in a "sneakernet" format, the ANANZINE contains essays, music, video games, and zines that analyze this vectoralist dystopia and envision liberatory alternatives. The physical distribution method emphasizes human connection and serves as an act of "anansi calisthenics," challenging centralized control by becoming vectors of data ourselves. The collection includes works like "Nor Neutral" (exploring vectoralism and decentralized alternatives), "Virtual Violence" (examining underlying violences of this transition), and "ghosts" (a mixtape inspired by the work of Mark Fisher).
Distributed via physical USB cards in a "sneakernet" format, the ANANZINE contains essays, music, video games, and zines that analyze this vectoralist dystopia and envision liberatory alternatives. The physical distribution method emphasizes human connection and serves as an act of "anansi calisthenics," challenging centralized control by becoming vectors of data ourselves. The collection includes works like "Nor Neutral" (exploring vectoralism and decentralized alternatives), "Virtual Violence" (examining underlying violences of this transition), and "ghosts" (a mixtape inspired by the work of Mark Fisher).
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Ansible Realm Connector
2024
ACRA
Ansible Realm Connector was a musical and poetic tele-performance that was produced with the ANANSI Revolutionary Collective as a part of the 2024 Wave Farm Transmission Arts residency. The project was awarded the Rising Tide Award.
The project was an innovative live docu-fictional radio play and Arkestral tele-performance that unfolded the narrative of the (fictional) inter-dimensional ansible, I.D.A., and the genesis of the (real) ANANSI Revolutionary Collective. Envisioned as a global collaboration, musicians, sound artists, and writers synchronized from diverse locations using low-latency audio transfer technology. This interdisciplinary telematic performance transcended physical distances, creating a shared experience for a global audience. SUNJIR0 (Kadallah) anchored the project on-site at Wave Farm while connected with artists in Nairobi, Kenya and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In addition to the live tele-performance, SUNJIR0 (Kadallah) also did a live radio broadcast with WGXC.
The project was an innovative live docu-fictional radio play and Arkestral tele-performance that unfolded the narrative of the (fictional) inter-dimensional ansible, I.D.A., and the genesis of the (real) ANANSI Revolutionary Collective. Envisioned as a global collaboration, musicians, sound artists, and writers synchronized from diverse locations using low-latency audio transfer technology. This interdisciplinary telematic performance transcended physical distances, creating a shared experience for a global audience. SUNJIR0 (Kadallah) anchored the project on-site at Wave Farm while connected with artists in Nairobi, Kenya and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In addition to the live tele-performance, SUNJIR0 (Kadallah) also did a live radio broadcast with WGXC.
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Do Androids Dream of Digital Dancefloors?
2025
NAIROBI
“Do Androids Dream of Digital Dancefloors?“ explores the evolution of internet music communities and technologies, ultimately critiquing the anti-social encroachment of Spotify on a once bountiful virtual landscape. The essay was written for the book Home is Where the Heart Strives by Norient.
Home is Where the Heart Strives explores what place means in relation to music and sound. 85 contributors from 38 countries map their sonic landscapes of migration, war, queerness, and home through essays, poems, articles, artworks, photos, and songs. From a metalhead smuggling banned tapes across the Syrian border to an oasis in the mountains of Bogotá where people gather to vogue, we are looking for places where differences don’t dissolve but resonate.
Home is Where the Heart Strives explores what place means in relation to music and sound. 85 contributors from 38 countries map their sonic landscapes of migration, war, queerness, and home through essays, poems, articles, artworks, photos, and songs. From a metalhead smuggling banned tapes across the Syrian border to an oasis in the mountains of Bogotá where people gather to vogue, we are looking for places where differences don’t dissolve but resonate.
