Louis
Chude-Sokei

Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer, scholar and artist who teaches at Boston University. Books include The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015) and the memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way (2021). His work has appeared in numerous languages, including the Korean version of Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber: Reggae, Technology and the Diaspora Process (2022) and the German collection, Race und Technologie: Essays der Migration (2023). Founder of the sonic art/archiving project, Echolocution, he collaborated with artists including Mouse on Mars, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Marina Rosenfeld and Mendi & Keith Obadike. He was a curator of Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Afrofuturism Festival, and his work was central to the official German Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, where he contributed a sound installation entitled Thresholds, which lent its title to the Pavilion itself. He was awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction.