// Nitzan Bartov, Hyphen-Labs | Jan 2017

NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism (NSAF) is an award winning three-part digital narrative that sits at the intersection product design, virtual reality, and neuroscience. 

Inspired by the lack of multidimensional representations of black women in technology. The NSAF products range from sunblock for traveling through the multiverse, to earrings embedded with cameras that offer protection and visibility, the VR experience is set in a NeuroCosmetology lab where black women are pioneering techniques of brain optimization and cognitive enhancement. Finally, scientific research exploring the neurological and physiological impact of showing images of empowered black women as well as content made for and by women of color.

The NSAF VR experience transports our viewers into a NeuroCosmetology lab, a reimagined black hair salon, placing the viewer into a black woman’s body giving a glimpse into a speculative future of black women pioneering brain research and neuromodulation through the culturally specific ritual of haircare.

// www.nsaf.space

// NSAF has been shown at Sundance Film Fest, SXSW, Tribeca Film Fest (Jury Honorable Mention), Gray Area Art & Technology Festival, Primer Speculative Futures Conference, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Stony Island Arts Bank & Rebuild Foundation, New Inc: Versions Festival.

// Press: Huffington Post, New Yorker, Wired, Indiewire, TechCrunch, The Verge, MIT-Open Doc Lab, Voices of VR, CoolHunting, Colorlines, Voices of America, Forbes, NPR, i-D Vice,  The Root Video, The Root, Engadget, NBC, Vocativ, TrendHunter, Copywrite Magazine, FastCo, The Guardian, Mashable, Telegraph, Wired: Hyperface, Creators Project

// Created by: Hyphen-Labs [ Ashley Baccus-Clark, Ece Tankal, Carmen Aguilar y Wedg] and Nitzan Bartov.

// Project team: Todd Bryant, Halime Maloof, Lajune Mcmillian, Michelle Cortese, Adam Harvey, [ab]screenwear, Memoire, Mert Çetinkaya, Dyane Harvey, Ludmila Leiva, Adam Sobolew, Future Media Labs, Mind Traveler Design