Louis Chude-Sokei

He is currently a Professor of English and Director of African American and Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University where he holds the George and Joyce Wein Chair.

[3] His work has appeared in numerous languages, including the German publication, Race Und Technologie: Essays Der Migration (2023) and the Korean translation of Dr. Satan's Echo Chamber: Reggae, Technology and the Diaspora Process (2022).

[15][16][17] Chude-Sokei is founder of Echolocution: Sonic Arts and Archiving, a project which asks the question, "What can we learn if we return to sites of trauma and violence through sound and techniques of listening?"

As part of his work with Echolocution he was lead artist/curator of Sometimes You Just Have to Give it Your Attention, a sound art/sonic archiving project which won the Kulturstiftung Des Bundes Award from the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2020.

[24][25][26][19] Chude-Sokei was a curator of Carnegie Hall's 2022 Afrofuturism Festival and is currently an advisor to the Guggenheim Museum's Art and Technology Initiative in partnership with LG Electronics.