Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and Director of Poetic Justice Group at MIT Media Lab.
Exhibitions • Black Forest (2022-ongoing) • A Counting (2019-ongoing)
Press • New York Times • NPR Morning Edition • FRAME • Cultured • MoMA R&D Salon 37: Breath
2023-ongoing
Black Forest: Providence (West End)
Trees of various species and sizes, custom software-generated video and sound, automated phone system, audio recordings from callers • Collaborated with Groundwork Rhode Island, Providence Neighborhood Planting Program, Higher Ground International and Stages of Freedom • Supported by MIT Media Lab and Emerson Collective



2023-ongoing
Black Forest: St. Louis (Midtown)
Trees of various species and sizes, custom software-generated video and sound, automated phone system, audio recordings from callers • Collaborated with Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, Missouri State Parks, David Jackson, and Scott Joplin House • Supported by MIT Media Lab and Emerson Collective



2023-ongoing
Black Forest: Florida City
Trees of various species and sizes, custom software-generated video and sound, automated phone system, audio recordings from callers • Collaborated with Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources and Division of Environmental Resources Management and the South-Dade NAACP Branch • Supported by MIT Media Lab and Emerson Collective



2023-ongoing
Black Forest: San Francisco (Bayview-Hunters Point)
Trees of various species and sizes, custom software-generated video and sound, automated phone system, audio recordings from caller • Collaborated with San Francisco Public Works, Friends of Urban Forest, From the Heart, San Francisco Unified School District • Supported by MIT Media Lab and Emerson Collective


