Ekene Ijeoma is an artist and founder/director of Poetic Justice at MIT Media Lab, currently accepting applications.
He was featured in What Can Design Do’s 31 Designers Fighting for a Better World, GOOD's GOOD 100 "tackling pressing global issues,” Adweek's Creative 100 "visual artist whose imagination and intellect will inspire you," and GDUSA's People to Watch "who embody the spirit of the creative community."
Exhibitions/Performances • Heartfelt at The Kennedy Center • Wage Islands and A Counting at Musuem of the City of New York • Wage Islands: Immigrants at Design Museum Holon • Interviews/Features Designing Activism (Book) • Internships Architectural/Spatial Designer • Interaction/Information Designer • Software/Hardware Developer • Researcher • Newsletters Jul. ‘18
2019
Wage Islands #2 is an interactive installation which submerges a topographic map of NYC underwater to visualize where low-wage workers can afford to rent.
Commissioned by Museum of the City of New York for Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by Numbers at Museum of the City of New York • Photos by Isometric Studio
2019
A Counting An ongoing site-specific generative video of New Yorkers counting from 1 to 100; every time playing a different phone-recorded number, in a different voice and language and displaying the word in the language. Video
in collaboration with the Poetic Justice Group for Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by Numbers at Museum of the City of New York from Nov. 21 ‘19–July 19 ‘20
2018
Pan-African AIDS a sculpture which explores the hypervisibility of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa and the hidden one in Black America.
Commissioned by Museum of the City of New York/Wellcome Trust for Germ City:Microbes and the Metropolis • Photos by Isometric Studio
2018
Monuments for a New Era an op-art which reimagines a former Robert E. Lee monument in New Orleans as a living monument. Website
Commissioned by New York Times for Monuments of a New Era • Featuring artworks from Dread Scott, Nicole Awai, Ariel Rene Jackson, Titus Kaphar and Kenya (Robinson)
