Black Quantum Futurism

Black Quantum Futurism Collective (Rasheedah Phillips + Camae Ayewa)

Curriculum Vitae

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Artist-In-Residence, Fellowships, and Commissioned Projects

• documenta fifteen, Kassel, Germany (2022)

• 2021 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, Knight Foundation x United States Artists

• Collide Residency Award, "CPT Symmetry and Violations," CERN, Geneva Switzerland (2021)

• Vera List Center Fellowship 2020-2022,  Time Zone Protocols by Rasheedah Phillips, Vera List Center for Art and Politics

• Nonlinear Histories & Quantum Futures" interactive communal outdoor stage commission and "Oral Futures Booth," Manifesta 13, Marseille France (2020)

• The Great Bailout, Moor Mother and London Contemporary Orchestra

• Temporal Deprogramming, Institute of Contemporary Art London (2019)

• Moor Mother presents Circuit City, Fringe Arts - High Pressure Fire Service, Philadelphia PA (2019)

• Red Bull Music Presents Moor Mother: Red Summer, BRIC Arts Brooklyn, NY, May 9, 2019

• Community Futures Lab Chicago, Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019)

• Black Womxn Temporal Portal, Temple Contemporary Velocity Fund (2018)                                                              

• The Future(s) Are Black.Quantum.Womanist Web Residency, Refiguring the Feminist Future curated by Moreshin Allahyari, Akademie Solitude & ZKM (2018)

• HatchLab Grantee, The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture (2018)                                                                                    

• Pew Fellow, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage (2017-19)                                                                                          

• Visual Artist Fellow, Center for Emerging Visual Arts  (2017-18)                                                                          

• TEMPORAL ATONEMENT soundscape, commissioned and released as part of DeepWhiteSound                                        "Composites: Buena Vista" presented in conjunction with the Soundwave ((7)) Biennial (2016)

• TEMPORAL TECHNOLOGIES soundscape, commissioned and released as part of DarkMatters 6 on                            Afrovisionary/DarkMatters Independent Label (2016)

• A Blade of Grass Fellow, Community Futurisms socially-engaged art project   (2016)                                               

• Commissioned Artists, DIY PHL December 2015 Calendar   (2015)                                                                            

• West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange, Artists-in-Residency  (2015)                                                             

• ANTI-KY-THE/RA sound, zine and extended audio project, commissioned and released on DeepWhiteSound                         independent label (2015)

 

​Exhibitions and Installations​​

• Infinite Distance, online group exhibition, curated by Shani K. Parsons, presented in conjunction with the November release for Almanac for Refusal, the digital platform of transmediale festival 2021-22

• CPT Reversal, solo exhibition, REDCAT,  Los Angeles, California, November 6, 2021 -March 5, 2022

• Ancestors returning again/this time only to themselves, site-specific solo exhibition, curated by PastPresent Projects, The Hatfield House, sponsored by The Fairmount Park Conservancy, August 14-Sept 19, 2021

• "Reclamation: Space-Times," Staying Power  group exhibition, curated by Paul Farber, Village of Art & Humanities x Monument Lab, Philadelphia PA, May 1- July 2021

• "Transmissions from a Quantum Time Capsule," Time Capsule 2045 group exhibition, curated by Maud Jacquin, Sébastien Pluot with Laurent Fiévet , Silvia Guerra, Julien Sirjacq, Beaux-arts de Paris, May 7-23, 2021

• "Black Womxn Temporal Portal," Monstrous Machines: Extensions Vol. III, online and physical group exhibition and publication, curated by Ida Schyum, ARoS Public and Radar Contemporary (May 7-July 10, 2021) 

• "Black Womxn Temporal Portal," Molecular Minds || Monstrous Matters online group exhibition, curated by Mara-Johana Komel, Digital Solitude by Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2021)

• "Time Travel Experiments," Here History Began Team, Tracing the Re/Verberations of Halim El-Dabh group physical and online exhibition, curated by Kamila Metwaly and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (20.03.–09.05.2021)  

• Select works in If Time Is Still Alive: The City & The Good Life, group exhibition, Camera Austria, curated by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut Weber), March 13-May 23, 2021

• Nonlinear Histories & Quantum Futures" interactive communal outdoor stage commission and "Oral Futures Booth," Manifesta 13, Marseille France (2020)

• “Black Womxn Temporal Portal,” Radical Hope series - Burning Glass, Reading Stone group exhibition, Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Nov 16-Dec 13, 2020

• Select pieces from “Black Space Agency” and “Community Futurisms” series, Imagining De- Gentrified Futures group Exhibition, curated by Betty Yu, Apexart NYC.

• Select pieces from “Black Space Agency” series in Off to Space: Counternarrating the Cosmos curated by Maria Veits, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Feb 22-May 23, 2020

• Selected Video Works, Rituals for Temporal Deprogramming in Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements, curated by The Otolith Group, February 7-15, 2020

• Black Womxn Temporal Portal solo exhibition, Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia PA , Nov. 1-28, 2019

• ANTI-KY-THE/RA digital installation, STRUKTURA. Time online exhibition, The Wrong Biennale for Digital Culture

• Community Futures Lab Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center in "...and other such stories," Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019

• Time Travel Experiments film, Part of the Labryinth - GÖTEBORG INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (GIBCA) 2019 

• "All Time is Local", Trainings for the Not-Yet group exhibition and series of trainings, BAK, curated by Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Utrecht Holland, September 14, 2019 - January 2020

• Temporal Disruptors watches + Temporal Library, "The Green Sun" group exhibition, Atelier Gallery, Phila PA, curated by Kristen Neville and Ricky Yanas, Sept 20-Oct 27, 2019

• Black Space Agency Triptych, "Social Justice in the Misinformation Age" group exhibition, Juried by Susan Crile, Freedman Gallery @ Albright College, August 27-October 20, 2019

• "Experimental Time Order" solo exhibition, Western Front, Vancouver CA, September 12-November 13, 2019

• Temporal Deprogramming solo exhibition and programming, Institute of Contemporary Art London, August 10-27, 2019

• Red Bull Red Summer Stage and Film Installation, BRIC Arts NYC, May 9, 2019

• “Part of the Labyrinth” group exhibition, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden

• "All Time is Local" members exhibition, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia PA, April 22-May 31, 2019

• Temporal Disruptors and Kindred Temporal Library, "Orbits" group exhibition, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago IL, May 11-June 23, 2019

• "Timeless Degrees of Freedom" exhibition, Vox Populi Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, March 2-April 14, 2019

• "At the Edge of the Bush/A Long Walk Into the Unknown" solo exhibition, Squeaky Wheel Buffalo, curated by                             Ekrem Serdar, Jan 25-April 20 2019

• Quantum Event Map and Temporal Library, "What We Make" group exhibition, Ohio Wesleyan University                              Ross Art Museum, curated by Erin Fletcher and Ashley Biser, 2018

• Screening of "Experimental Time Order" short film at Alien Time: An Invitation to Time Travel" Symposium,                  Goldsmiths University, organized by Bridget Crone and Henriette Gunkel, 2018

• Alter-Native Time Portal, Group Exhibition at Philadelphia Museum of Art Perelman Building, PHL Assembled, 2017            

• "Community Futurisms: Mapping Memory 001" Solo exhibiton at Kelly Writer's House - Brodsky Gallery, 2017

• "Ritual Causality 002," Black Quantum Futurism Solo Exhibition at Black Oak House Contemporary Gallery, 2016

• "Dismantling the Master Clock 001" mixed media art, Vox Populi Gallery Juried Exhibition "VOX XII: News and                         Weather", juried by Gordon Hall and Brian Droitcour, Philadelphia PA

• "PTSD" and "Dismantling the Master Clock 001" mixed media art, Octavia’s Attic, curated by Channing Joseph,                        Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2016

• Various pieces, mixed media art, A Government of Times exhibition, curated by le peuple qui manque, Rebuild                             Foundation, Chicago IL, 2016

• Ritual Causality mixed media art, RECIPROCITY Group Exhibition, West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time                                       Exchange, 2015

• Philalalalia Ink & Print exhibition, print media, sculpture, and film installation, Temple Contemporary Gallery,                               Philadelphia PA, 2015

• Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice, Volume 1" print media, Unveiling Visions: The Alchemy of the Black                           Imagination, curated by John Jennings and Reynaldo Anderson,  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC

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Select Performances

• "Waiting Time/Watch Night Service" BQF at Making Time is Rad Fuck2020 NYE Party (onlne), December 31, 2020

• THE COSMIC SYNTHESIS OF SUN RA AND AFROFUTURISM: SISTERS, SOUNDS AND SCIENCE OF AFROFUTURISM—BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM & NONA HENDRYX, Harlem Stage, NY, December 13, 2019

• Prizm Art Fair at Art Basel/Miami Art Week 2019, Miami Fl, December 3, 2019

• Valongo Festival, Sao Pauo Brazil, November 9, 2019

• Project: Time Capsule performative workshop, Alternatives & Futures public programs series, Queens Museum, NY, July 21, 2019

• Circuit City, Fringe Festival High Pressure Fire Service, FringeArts June 20-22, 2019

• Red Bull Music Presents Moor Mother: Red Summer, BRIC Arts Brooklyn, May 9, 2019

• The Temporal Disruptors, NO GUTS, NO GALAXY: Slideshows as part of RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: Racing for Thunder,                               Red Bull Arts New York, Aug 2018

• Afrocyberfeminismes #6 - Post-futurs et temporalities alternatives, Le Gait Lyrique, Paris France, July 2018                 

• Black Quantum Futurism MOFO Festival, Australia, Jan 2018

• Project: Time Capsule, Serpentine Gallery Park Nights 2017, London UK, Aug 2017       

• Black Quantum Futurism x Geng x Matana Roberts, Live, MOMA PS1 - Come Together Fest, New York, 2017

• Ritual Causality 003 performance, transmediale festival 2017 - ever elusive, Berlin Germany, Feb 2017

• Black Quantum Futurism, Sustaining Our Sounds: Girls Rock Philly 10th Anniversary Gala, Icebox Project Space                     Philadelphia PA, 2016                        

• Free for All: Black Quantum Futurism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA, Oct 2016

• Topical Cream Magazine Pulse Benefit at Artists Space, New York NY, 2016

• BLACK FUTURE MONTH 3016: 4th Annual Afrofuturism Art Exhibit, OCAD University, Toronto ON, Canada, 2016

• Afrofuturism Now! Festival @ WORM Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL, Oct 2015

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Select Artist Lectures, Panels, Workshops, Talks, and Presentations 

• "Like Clockwork: Material Cultures of Time within Black Communities," Temporal Belongings Conference 2021: Material Life of Time (March 16, 2021)

• Communication After Refusal: The Turn to Love and Polyvocality, Book Launch and Conversation for Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by An Duplan, (Feb 22, 2021)

• Black Quantum Futurism Talk and Moor Mother performance, Beyond the End of the World/Visualizing Abolition series, UC Santa Cruz x Indexical, Nov 13, 2020

• “Towards a Temporal Rezoning: Unmapping the Time Zones” Performative Lecture and Talk, Vera List Center for Art and Social Politics “As For Protocols” VLC Forum 2020, Nov 8 2020

• “A Conversation on Afrofuturism” panel (on the occasion of Wangechi Mutu’s commission), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Dec 11, 2019

• Quantum Womanist Futures, Black Space Agency + Communal Temporalities workshop, Manifest Destiny exhibition, Detroit MI, 

• "Black Grandmother Paradoxes + Quantum Womanist Futures" workshop, Black Futurism - Black in Design Conference, Harvard University, Boston MA, October 4-6, 2019

• Towards World-Building: Sciences at the End of the World panel presentation, Refiguring the Future conference presented by Eyebeam Institute, Feb. 2019

• Uncovering Women of Color in Time, Place, and History, Panel presentation, presented by Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance, PACSCL, Dec. 2018

• "You Are Now Here" Speculative Geographies panel presentation, Community Mapping and Civic Data Summit, Price Lab at Penn Law Philadelphia PA, Nov 2018

• Black Quantum Futurism: Re-Imagining the City keynote presentation, Social Art Summit, Sheffield, UK, Nov 2018

• "Black Space Agency: Retrofutures of Civil & Star Wars" panel presentation, Out There - 5 talk-bits on War-Futures in Outer Space,UCHRI, Nov 2018

• Beyond Wakanda: The Resurgence of the Contemporary Black Reality & Future, Panelist, BlackStar Film Fest, Aug 2018

• Keynote Speaker, Tuning Speculations V: Vibratory (Ex)changes, The Occulture, Toronto Canada, Nov 2017

• Panelist w/ John Jennings and Catherine Ramirez, Different Tomorrows: Beyond Whiteness Symposium, Nov 2017 

• Dismantling the Master's Clock[work Universe], Enter Afrofuturism, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece, Nov 2017 

• Keynote Speaker, Sight and Sound Festival 2017 - NonCompliant Futures, Montreal Canada, Sept 2017

• Time, Memory, and Justice in Marginalized Communities workshop, Open Engagement, Chicago IL,  April 2017

• Afrofuturism and Black Science Fiction Panel, Yale Black Solidarity Conference 2017, Yale University, New Haven CT, Feb 2017 

• Singularities panel, transmediale - ever elusive, Berlin Germany, Feb 2017

• Black Quantum Futurism Artist Talk with The Wire at CTM Festival, Berlin Germany, Feb 2017

• The New Legal Temporalities?:Discipline and Resistance across Domains of Time international conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, Sept 2016

• Quantum Event Mapping and DIY Time Travel presentation, Celebrating Time: 3rd International Conference on Time Perspective, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug 2016

• DIY Timescapes: Black Quantum Futurism and Alternative Temporalities, Portals: History of the Future                                       exhibition, Providence Public Library, Providence RI, 2016

• Justice + Space II Conference, "Dreaming" panel and presentation, PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania,                               Philadelphia, 2016

• Dismantling the Master's Clock paper, TransTemporality Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada

• Future Perfect: Future Imaginaries from the New Right to the Afrofuturist Affair, workshop and screening with                           filmmaker Daniel Tucker, Slought, Philadelphia PA

• Ritual Causality 001, AUX Performance Space at Vox Populi Gallery

• DIY Time Travel Workshop and Performance, Afrofutures UK, Manchester Digital Library, Manchester, United                               Kingdom​

 

Select Print and Sound Media 

• "Counter Clockwise: Unmapping Black Temporalities from Greenwich Mean Timelines" by Rasheedah Phillips in The Funambulist: Politics of Bodies and Space Magazine – "They Have Clocks, We Have Time" Issue No. 36, July/August 2021; designed cover art for the issue 

• Project: Time Capsule by Black Quantum Futurism in "Survivance," a collaboration between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and e-flux Architecture (June 2021); guest editors

• Eviction Records Follow People Around for Years. This Isn’t Fair. by Rasheedah Phillips, Next City, (June 2021)

• Time is key: Applying a Black Quantum Futurist lens to understanding solutions to housing inequality, op-ed by Rasheedah Phillips, Generocity (June 2021)

• Reconfiguring Space, Time, and Justice for Liberatory Housing Futures by Rasheedah Phillips, PACDC Magazine (April 2021)  

• Expanding Black futures requires ending racist housing policies that plague Philadelphia | Opinion, by Rasheedah Phillips, Philadelphia Inquirer (Feb 19, 2021)

• "Time and Memory Survey" by Rasheedah Phillips in "Black Futures," edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, Penguin Random-House (Dec. 1, 2020)

• Duppy Space-Time x Yard Temporalities, by Rasheedah Phillips, written in parallel with Christopher Udemezue's "Duppy" Session at Recess Arts 

• Red Summer Digital Zine by Black Quantum Futurism

• The Nowness of Black Chronopolitical Imaginaries in the Afro/Retrofuture by Rasheedah Phillips in The Funambulist: Politics of Bodies and Space Magazine - Futurisms Issue No. 24, July/August 2019

• Reverse Gentrification of the Future Now: Essay by Rasheedah Phillips, as part of Moor Mother's Circuit City, Fringe Festival Blog

• Activating Retrocurrences and Reverse Time-Bindings in the Quantum Now(s), by Rasheedah Phillips, Squeaky Wheel site and exhibition text for "On the Edge of the Bush//A Long Walk into the Unknown" solo exhibition, Feb. 2019

• Placing Time, Timing Space: Dismantling the Master's Map and Clock by Rasheedah Phillips in The Funambulist: Politics of Bodies and Space Magazine – Cartography and Power Issue 18, July/August 2018

• Dismantling the Master’s Clock: Black Quantum Futurism as a New Afro-Diasporic Time” essay by Rasheedah Phillips and “Futurist Garvey” poem by Camae Ayewa, Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent, edited by John Jennings and Reynaldo Anderson (2018)

• Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist, essay on keyword “FUTURE” written by                                 Rasheedah Phillips, book co-edited by Kelly Fritsch and Clare O'Connor (2016)

• Organize Your Own Temporality image and essay by Rasheedah Phillips, Organize Your Own Exhibition Catalogue, edited/curated by Daniel Tucker (Soberscove, 2016) 

• Observations on Slave Ships, Time, and Quantum Physics, images and writing in The Funambulist: Politics of                               Bodies and Space Magazine – Design + Racism Issue 5, May/June 2016

• Black Across Time, Space, and Depth, reflections on Rodney McMillian’s The Black Show exhibition at the                                   Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, published on its NOTES blog

• Space-Time Collapse: From the Congo to the Carolinas, Vol. I, March 2016, The  AfroFuturist Affair/House of                                 Future Sciences Books

• Black Quantum Futurism Theory & Practice Vol. 1, March 2015, The AfroFuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences                           Books

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Select Press and Interviews​​

• Philly’s fave Afrofuturists turned a Fairmount mansion into a time-travel portal by Peter Crimmins, WHYY/Plan Philly (Aug, 20121)

• Black ancestors take up metaphysical residence at Hatfield House through image and artifact, by Hanae Mason, Generocity.org (Aug. 16, 2021)

• Afrofuturismo cuántico, by JAVIER ARGÜELLO, El Pais (July 12, 2021),

• ‘The impossible is what we do’: A new art project honors neighborhood ‘Staying Power’, by Stephan Salisbury , Philadelphia Inquirer (May 23, 2021)

• In May, let’s play with the future, by Sabrina Vourvoulias, Genorocity (May 6, 2021)

• Reimagining What Monuments Can Be, by Cornelia Channing, New York Magazine - The Cut (May 3, 2021)

• They Are Their Own Monuments, by Tess Thackara, The New York Times (May 3, 2021)

• Exploring Identity Through Afrofuturism with Black Quantum Futurism, by Alex Smith, Broad Street Review (April 28. 2021)

• Black Quantum Futurism receives the Knight Foundation’s new art and technology fellowship, by Peter Crimmins, WHYY (Feb 17, 2021)

• Moor Mother’s Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips win residency to expand Black Quantum Futurism, by Sarah Hosjak, The Key - XPN (Feb 17, 2021)

• With a $50,000 Grant, Black Quantum Futurism Will Continue to Disrupt Space and Time, by Helen Holmes, The Observer (Feb 18, 2021)

• Moor Mother & Rasheedah Phillips' Black Quantum Futurism awarded residency at CERN, the world's largest particle physics lab, by Matt McDermott, Resident Advisor (Feb 16 2021)

• Skate park installation and printmaking exhibition bring queer and trans artists together, by Peter Crimmins, WHYY (Feb 14, 2021)

• Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit. by Cassie Owens, Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. 1 2021)

• Time Will Tell, by Amanda Carneiro, Afterall Journal, (Dec. 9, 2020)

• “Radical Futurisms: Documentary’s Chronopolitics,” by T.J. Demos,Trigger #2: Uncertainty, FOMU: Photography Museum, 2020

• Join a Reading Group That Imagines a Future Beyond Gentrification, Hyperallergic, Dessane Lopez Cassell (Nov 18 2020)

• Five Philadelphia Projects Connect to Community With Temple Contemporary’s Added Velocity Award​, by Logan Cryer, Hyperallergic (Oct 28 2020)

• Ingrid LaFleur in Conversation with Rasheedah Phillips, by Constance Collier-Mercado, Believer Magazine, (October 1, 2020) 

• North Philly activist, poet, and musician Moor Mother on her free jazz musical, Afrofuturism, and Patti LaBelle, by Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer (September 30, 2020)

• Ancestral Tech and the Future of the Black Body, by Ras Cutlass, Broken Pencil Magazine (September 23 2020)

• In our language the word for the sea means the ‘spirit that returns’, by Adjoa Armah, Afterall Journal (Sep. 8 2020)

• Black Designers Demand Equity and Justice in the Built Environment, by Dana J. Rice, Hidden City Philadelphia (August 2020)

• Rasheedah Phillips x Moor Mother Invisible Jukebox, The Wire Magazine, Issue 437 (July 2020)

• L'Officiel Art International 2020 - The Warning Issue, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou (May 24, 2020)

• Recording of March 2019 lecture at Rice University: Liberatory Quantum Womanist Futures + Communal Temporalities, Paracultures Blog, April 2020

• Community Futurisms book review, Industry Dump, April 2020

• The Revolutionary Free Jazz of Irreversible Entanglements, by Zoe Camp, Bandcamp Daily, April 2020

• Nona Hendryx on Paying Tribute to Sun Ra at the Met: 'Afrofuturism Has Always Been', Natalie Weiner, Billboard.com, March 2, 2020

• Added Velocity Awards, ArtBlog

• A look into many futures at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, by Alex Smith, Philly Artblog

• Rasheedah Phillips talks Black Quantum Futurism coming to Harlem Stage, by Jordannah Elizabeth, Amsterdam News December 12, 2019

• How PRIZM Is Helping Artists of Color Get Their Time in the Spotlight, by Nia Groce, Hypebeast, December 6, 2019

• Time FIghters: Black Quantum Futurism at the Chicago Architecture Biennial by Drew Zeiba, Pin-Up Magazine, Fall/Winter 2019-20

• Fugitive Libraries by Shannon Mattern, October 2019

• Moor Mother’s Camae Ayewa imagines the future of liberation in Circuit City, Circuit City Review by Thomas Hagen in WXPN/The Key, June 27, 2019

• Transcendence and Temporality, Black Quantum Futurism’s All Time is Local at Center for Emerging Visual Artists - Review of "All Time is Local" by Alex Smith in ArtBlog Philly, May 31, 2019

• Live: Red Bull Music Academy Presents Moor Mother's Red Summer, by Reginald Duvivier, The Couch Sessions (May 15, 2019)

• Live Review + Gallery: Moor Mother: Red Summer at BRIC (05.09.19), by Edwina Hay, Music Existence (May 10, 2019)

• Decolonizing Time as Healing, by Monica Uszerowicz, Topical Cream Magazine

• Review of "On the Edge of the Bush" solo exhibition, 

• Black Quantum Futurism FIELDWORKS short film, directed by A Blade of Grass, October 2018

• Black Futurism and Technologies of Joy, Interview with Clara Herrmann, Akademie Solitude x ZKM, August 2018 

• Dismantling the Master Clock: The Philosophy and Music of Philadelphia's Black Quantum Futurism Collective, by Tirhakah Love, Red Bull Academy, May 2018 

• Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips Pew Fellows Interview, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, March 2018

• How Musicians Are Using Field Recordings to Capture the Politics of a Place, by Lottie Brazier, Pitchfork, April 2018

• Black History Untold: Future - Rasheedah Phillips, by Sofiya Ballin, Feb 2018

• Crane Arts Exhibit Explores Time & Temporality, by Ian Walker, Temple News, October 2017

• 40th anniversary of the Voyager Golden Record, Nick Luscombe with Golden Records, BBC Late Junction, Aug 2017

• NextGen: Black Quantum Futurism Is a Women-Led Incubator Rooted In Black Liberation, by Alisha Acquaye, Okay Africa, July 2017

• ​Talks // transmediale Ever Elusive: Excursion on ‘Imaginaries, Interventions and Ecologies’ by Candice Nembhard, Berlin Art Link, March 2, 2017

• Moor Mother, Fetish Bones album review, by Richard Foster. The Quietus, December 8, 2016

• Items Tagged Philadelphia: Poetry, prose and making the world better through sound, The Key/WXPN, February 3, 2017

• Bharatanatyam, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Afrofuturism Articulate with Jim Cotter. WHYY, June 30, 2016

• An Afrofuturist Community Center Targets Gentrification by Hyunjee Nicole Kim. Hyperallergic, June 22, 2016 

• Race Against Time: A North Philly artist aims to document her disappearing community by Melissa Simpson.                               PhillyVoice, June 16, 2016

• TEARS INTO FLAMES: BGD MUSIC OF THE MONTH FEATURING CAMAE AYEWA OF MOOR MOTHER by Victoria Ruiz.                           Black Girl Dangerous, June 10, 2016

• This time-traveling sci-fi writer is not your average public interest attorney  by Tony Abraham. Genoricty, May                           10, 2016

• Meet Camae Defstar, The Philly Activist Channelling Her City's Pain Through Music, by Laurent Fintoni. The                                 Fader, December 18, 2015

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Honors and Awards

• Girls Rock Philly Inaugural PhillyRising Award

• Geekadelphia Impact Org of the Year Award

• Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance (for Greater Philadelphia) Award