Shared Imaginings: Sound Bath With Artist Ari Melenciano
Saturday, May 17
1:00 – 2:00 PM
For All Ages
FREE! Optional RSVP
The Sound Bath with artist Ari Melenciano is part of the larger event, Shared Imagings at the Museum—an afternoon of activities exploring Social Sculpture, art that seeks to create positive social change and engage audiences in the creative process. Melanciano currently has work on view in the interactive exhibition WORKING KNOWLEDGE: Shared Imaginings, New Futures.
Image: Ari Melenciano, Cosmeage film still, 2025, Courtesy of the artist.
About The Sound Bath
The practice of applying sound as a healing method has existed for millennia in cultures from Tibet to the Yucatan.
Modern practitioners interpret these ancient practices using various methods to create soundscapes that promote relaxation and meditation.
For this sound bath at The Bronx Museum, artist Ari Melenciano will create a bespoke soundscape using a modular synth she built herself.
As part of the experience, the artist will speak about her process and sonic inspirations in creating the soundscape for the sound bath.
The Museum will provide some floor coverings for people who wish to sit or lie down on the ground during the sound bath. There will also be chairs for people to sit in if they prefer. Complimentary refreshments will be provided as well.
Please plan to arrive 15 minutes early to settle in before the program begins. You are welcome to drop by, but if you plan to attend, please consider letting us know with an optional RSVP.
About Ari Melenciano
Ari Melenciano is an artist, designer, and systems thinker whose work engages emerging technologies, public inquiry, and ritual. Through her practice, she explores how computation, designed perception, and new grammars of form can be used to nurture systems for sensing, remembrance, and reimagination.
She has taught courses in new media technologies, design, critical theory, and culture across NYU, the Pratt Institute, Hunter College, Parsons School of Design, and Rutgers University. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Venice Biennale, Sundance Film Festival, and the Museum of the Future in Dubai. And, she is the founder of Afrotectopia, a pioneering social institution that builds communities at the nexus of culture, art, design, and technology. It has taken the form of festivals, think tanks, a multi-university incubator, an international fellowship, and an experimental art book.
Previously, she worked as a creative technologist at Google’s Creative Lab, where she contributed to projects ranging from machine learning on fingertip-scale hardware to creative direction for the Google for Africa campaign, and generative AI research strategy.
Across all mediums, her work is rooted in a poetics of logic, embodied research, and the protection of complexity.
