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Experiential / 2025

Black Planetarium: Uncharted Anthologies


Client
Kidus Hailesilassie
Scope
3D Motion, VFX, Compositing
Collaborators
RAW x Kidus Hailesilassie
Tools
Blender, After Effects, Adobe Suite, Nuke, Embergen
TAGS
Art, Exhibition, Motion Graphics, 3D, Animation, Iconography
PROJECT SUMMARY
Black Planetarium offers a space for the collective rehearsal of other worlds shaped by Pan-African knowledge-making. Through breath, movement, atmospheric archive, and shared listening practices, the work traces the persistence of collective memory and imagination.

Rooted in over 5,000 years of Pan-African knowledge systems, this inaugural exhibition at The Music Center’s Digital Art Pavilion extends Kidus Hailesilassie’s ongoing research project Ancestral Algorithm, a cartography of 6,500 pictographs, ideographs, syllabaries, alphabets, and iconographs from twenty African languages.
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CREDITS

Black Atlas Map
Large-scale wall installation / cosmological field map Kidus Hailesilassie

Oceanic Re-membering: Meditation Video Projection
Voice Over: Kamali Martin
Visual Effects & Animation: RAWx, Orin Torati, Santiago Ceballos, Luis Garcia Grech
Installation Designer: Kidus Hailesilassie
Site Production & Activations Coordinator: Aleyna Van Antwerp

Virtual Reality Experience – Uncharted Anthologies
Created by: Kidus Hailesilassie
Co-Directed by: Kidus Hailesilassie & Ainslee Alem Robson
Produced by: Liam Young, Kidus Hailesilassie, Ainslee Alem Robson, Aja Quinn Evans

Executive Producer (Black Public Media): Lisa Osborne
Choreography & Movement Direction: Elisabeth Efua Sutherland
Performance: Harmony Adams
Production Design: Kidus Hailesilassie
Director of Photography: Sam Jiahao Zhang
Steadicam Operator: Dae Hyun Kim

Photo credits:
Henry R. Jones
Devin Wesley