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Ariciano
Joined Metalabel 04/24/2025Ari J. Melenciano is an artist and cultural researcher working with perception, time, consciousness, and cybernetics as materials.
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"Alloentity" names a deeply human experience: the relational dimension of identity, the self as something continuously negotiated, never quite fixed. Explored through some of the earliest synthesized portraits created with a fine-tuned generative model, alongside quotes from a century of thinkers including Sylvia Wynter, Zadie Smith, and Carl Jung.
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Cosmeage, originally experienced as a film, has traveled from NYC's MoMA to Los Angeles' The Music Center. It explores Black cultural gestures, embodied sensorial memory, and pan-African diasporic sound, while situated within surrealist architecture. This release translates the film into a tactile form of nearly 200 cinematic stills and process.