4th Chair of Education @LibraryCongress Creative Technologist Radical Archivist Harvard Fellow Peripheral Visionary Rap Enthusiast Native Queens New Yorker.

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Joined January 2009
We brought Playtest: Practicum to the Kennedy Center, inviting prompt engineers to explore how AI is transforming creative culture. It’s a bold new model for how communities can question, shape, and co-create the future. 🎥 youtu.be/FDSKch4kQGA
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My gold data sculpture Mapper’s Delight: Nas (2023) will be featured in Data Consciousness at @PrintCenterNY starting Sept 18. Excited to share this work + it’s also available here 👉 staplecrops.com/products/map…
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As technology continues to develop, our ways of thinking and speaking shift too.
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Considering the implications of a rap neural network with @mica students, our founder Tahir Hemphill shared metaphors for human life inspired by technology:
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Our future demands new metaphors.
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So glad to be a part of this mighty group of change makers. Congratulations Every One!
We are proud to announce the 2023 Soros Equality Fellows. From diverse fields across the United States, they work to advance racial justice, including in sustainability, climate justice, artificial intelligence, reparations, and Indigenous rights. osf.to/474cnkO
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We are proud to announce the 2023 Soros Equality Fellows. From diverse fields across the United States, they work to advance racial justice, including in sustainability, climate justice, artificial intelligence, reparations, and Indigenous rights. osf.to/474cnkO
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📢Exciting News! 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that writers at The New York Times used our Rap Almanac for their extensive research in creating this Hip Hop 50th Anniversary Story! 🎤🎶 🙌🏽 A huge shout-out to @mobrowne and NYT Special Projects: nytimes.com/interactive/2023…?
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‘yonce in 🇫🇷 Giving Lena Horne Glinda the Good Witch Vibes #BelieveInYourself
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We are conducting creative research into the role our platforms play in the generation of form. By applying linguistic analysis techniques to our rap lyric data, we unveil and draw out the infinite intricate patterns concealed within hip-hop. #14KGold #datasculpture #HipHop50
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Exhibition #BehindTheScenes • We decided to dedicate a significant amount of exhibition real estate to the Dubwise playlist wall which will serve as the backdrop for Thursday's closing party DJ set.
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"Hip Hop and the Machine Rap Research Lab continues what hip hop has been doing for the past half century: playfully rearranging the words, sounds, and textures of postwar American pop music" @hyperallergic hyperallergic.com/806083/hip…
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Exhibition #BehindTheScenes • The exhibition's display text is set in the typeface Du Bois, which was created by graphic designer Tré Seals of Vocal Type Co., in Virginia vocaltype.co 1/6
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Let’s Start What We Have Come Into The Room To Do. In conversation with colleagues at The Peale thepeale.org/event/roundtabl…
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Exhibition #BehindTheScenes • "A Visualisation of Authority" is a split-flap mechanical sign that periodically displays a book title that established the inaugural subject heading in the Library of Congress' collection of more than 25 million cataloged books. 1/6
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“Got a back pack with a fat stack of fact” @dancharnas @GuyRoutte. I’ll see y’all tomorrow @prattlibrary
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Delighted to have this fabulous feature in @baltimorebanner! Visit their site at thebaltimorebanner.com to read Lawrence Burney's article, and for more on the exhibition, on display at @cadvc_UMBC through 3/18. thebaltimorebanner.com/cultu…
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My solo exhibition at @cadvc_umbc is quickly approaching. A survey of recent work, unreleased projects, and creative research conducted over the past 10 years at various residencies. cadvc.umbc.edu/tahir-hemphil… rapresearchlab.com/umbc
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