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Bomani Oseni McClendon is an engineer, educator, and emergency medical technician living in Brooklyn, NY.

Bomani builds software to support artists and educators, teaches electronic circuitry to undergraduates at Parsons School of Design and primary school students in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and volunteers as an Emergency Medical Technician in Brooklyn. In his creative practice, Bomani studies the ways that Black health outcomes are influenced by a history of scientific racism, examining his own proximity to techno-solutionist monocultures and the medical industry as a starting point.

Education
New York University

Masters in Interactive Telecommunications

2019 - 2022

B&H Emergency Medical Training

EMT Accelerated Course

2021

School for Poetic Computation

10-Week Spring Session

2019

Northwestern University

B.S in Computer Science

2013 - 2017

Teaching
Device Art

Parsons School of Design, BFA Design & Technology

Fall 2021

New York, NY

Core Lab: Collaboration

Parsons School of Design, BFA Design & Technology

Spring 2021 (Online)

New York, NY

Core Lab: Objects

Parsons School of Design, BFA Design & Technology

Fall 2020 (Online)

New York, NY

Out of the Black Box

Pioneer Works, Good Shepherd Services STEAM Program

Summer 2019 - Fall 2019, Summer 2020 - Fall 2020 (Online)

New York, NY

Speaking
Guest Speaker for "Intro to Web" Course

NYU Integrated Digital Media, October 2023

Brooklyn, NY

Guest Speaker at "The Musical Web"

School for Poetic Computation, April 2023

New York, NY (Online)

"Engineering a Creative Career in Software"

Brilliant Black Minds, October 2022

New York, NY (Online)

Speaker at "Fireside Chat"

Brilliant Black Minds, October 2022

New York, NY (Online)

Guest Speaker at "Python Crash Course"

Upperline Code, July 2021

New York, NY (Online)

"OSSTA Creative-In-Residence: Notes from ml5.js"

Open-Source Software Toolkits for the Arts (OSSTA) Lecture Series, April 2021

Pittsburgh, PA (Online)

Guest Speaker at "Introduction to Machine Learning for the Arts"

NYU Interactive Media Arts, October 2020

New York, NY (Online)

Panelist at Institute for Entrepreneurship

Prep for Prep, July 2020

New York, NY (Online)

Guest Critic for "Intro to Web" Course

NYU Integrated Digital Media, May 2020

New York, NY (Online)

Co-Organizer of Processing Community Day NYC

Processing Community Day, February 2020

New York, NY

Creative Pathways in Computer Science (with Omayeli Arenyeka)

Harlem Children's Zone, February 2020

New York, NY

"Interactive Projection Mapping with Processing"

The School of Afrotectopia, January 2020

New York, NY

Panel Discussion at Decode Experiential Vol. V

Lightbox, September 2019

New York, NY

"Advice & Insights for Institute For Entrepreneurship Students"

Upperline Code, August 2019

New York, NY

"Code As An Artistic Medium"

WordHack, May 2019

New York, NY

Meet the Students Spring 2019

School for Poetic Computation, March 2019

New York, NY

"Interactive Projection Mapping with Processing!"

Processing Community Day NYC, February 2019

New York, NY

Panel Discussion at Student Assembly

Avenues: The World School, December 2018

New York, NY

"Making Mushrooms Glow"

!!Con, May 2017

New York, NY

"'Hacking' Mobile Apps"

Open Lab, November 2016

Evanston, IL

"Serving Social Change: Leveraging the Internet for the Empowerment of Social Movements"

MozFest, November 2015

London, England

Interviews
Speaker at Pond Mag & Eto Ano’s "Year-End Education Convention"

BABY TV by Baby's All Right, December 2020

Fellowships & Residencies
eTextiles Spring Break

Resident

2022

Clinic for Open Source Arts

COSA Community Leaders Program Fellow

2021

The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

Open-Source Software Toolkits for the Arts Spring Resident

2021

Interact

Fellow

2020

Clinic for Open Source Arts

Grant Fellow

2020

Processing Foundation

ml5.js Fellow

2020

IDEO CoLab

Software Design Fellow

2019

Delta Lab

Undergraduate Research Fellow

2016 - 2017

Knight Lab

Technical Fellow

2015 - 2017

Exhibitions & Showings
eTextiles Spring Break: Artists In Residence Exhibition

Prairie Ronde: Downtown Gallery

Vicksburg, MI

2022

No Media

The Wrong 2022 Biennale

Online (https://thewrong.tv)

2022

Creative Code Festival

Lightbox

New York, NY

2020

Poetic Computation: Seven Years of SFPC

Westbeth Gallery

New York, NY

2020

Second Sundays

Pioneer Works

Brooklyn, NY

2019

SFPC Spring 2019 Student Showcase

School for Poetic Computation

New York, NY

2019

Innuendo

Light Grey Art Lab

Minneapolis, MN

2019