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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.
Masters in Interactive Telecommunications
2019 - 2022
EMT Accelerated Course
2021
10-Week Spring Session
2019
B.S in Computer Science
2013 - 2017
Parsons School of Design, BFA Design & Technology
Spring 2021 (Online)
New York, NY
Pioneer Works, Good Shepherd Services STEAM Program
Summer 2019 - Fall 2019, Summer 2020 - Fall 2020 (Online)
New York, NY
NYU Integrated Digital Media, October 2023
Brooklyn, NY
School for Poetic Computation, April 2023
New York, NY (Online)
Brilliant Black Minds, October 2022
New York, NY (Online)
Brilliant Black Minds, October 2022
New York, NY (Online)
Upperline Code, July 2021
New York, NY (Online)
Open-Source Software Toolkits for the Arts (OSSTA) Lecture Series, April 2021
Pittsburgh, PA (Online)
NYU Interactive Media Arts, October 2020
New York, NY (Online)
Prep for Prep, July 2020
New York, NY (Online)
NYU Integrated Digital Media, May 2020
New York, NY (Online)
Processing Community Day, February 2020
New York, NY
Harlem Children's Zone, February 2020
New York, NY
The School of Afrotectopia, January 2020
New York, NY
Lightbox, September 2019
New York, NY
Upperline Code, August 2019
New York, NY
Processing Community Day NYC, February 2019
New York, NY
Avenues: The World School, December 2018
New York, NY
Open Lab, November 2016
Evanston, IL
MozFest, November 2015
London, England
TensorFlow, April 2021
BABY TV by Baby's All Right, December 2020
Processing Foundation, July 2020
Resident
2022
COSA Community Leaders Program Fellow
2021
Open-Source Software Toolkits for the Arts Spring Resident
2021
Fellow
2020
Grant Fellow
2020
ml5.js Fellow
2020
Software Design Fellow
2019
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2016 - 2017
Technical Fellow
2015 - 2017
Prairie Ronde: Downtown Gallery
Vicksburg, MI
2022
The Wrong 2022 Biennale
Online (https://thewrong.tv)
2022
Lightbox
New York, NY
2020
Westbeth Gallery
New York, NY
2020
Pioneer Works
Brooklyn, NY
2019
School for Poetic Computation
New York, NY
2019
Light Grey Art Lab
Minneapolis, MN
2019