Black Metal

Author: Ari Melenciano, Jordan Caldwell, Jeremy Kamal, Kordae Jatafa Henry
Publisher: Afrotectopia
Year: 2024
Pages: 208

Black Metal is a special limited edition (500 copies), intricately designed, kitchen table art book. Pushing the boundaries of space travel, science fiction, speculative design, Black culture, art, technology, and spirituality, Black Metal is simultaneously an archive and catalyst of future worlds.

What began as an incubator between Afrotectopia, MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative, and NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, quickly transformed into a imagination-expanding practice. Black Metal is an anthology of four books by the four artists of the incubator (Jordan Caldwell, Jeremy Kamal, Kordae Jatafa Henry, and Ari Melenciano) as they reimagined space travel as a new protocol in understanding the world around and within us.