Mendi & Keith Obadike
Artists, composers and writers working in experimental media art and performance, professors at Cornell
Biography
Mendi and Keith Obadike began working together in 1996 in Nashville and are professors at Cornell University. They are artists, composers and writers working in experimental media art and performance, with early work that pioneered internet pieces and later large scale sound works for public spaces. Their work has been shown at the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA, and in Programmed at the Whitney (2018 to 2019). Awards include a Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship (2004) and the Pick-Laudati Award for Digital Art (2007). The Interaction of Coloreds is a satirical web tool, part of the Black Net.Art Actions, that converts skin tone from a photo into an HTML hex color code, critiquing race and bias in online commerce.
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