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Bomani Oseni McClendon is an engineer, educator, and health worker from the United States, currently living in Kaurna country (Adelaide, Australia).
Bomani builds software to support artists and educators, teaches electronic circuitry to undergraduates at Parsons School of Design and volunteers as an Emergency Medical Technician in Brooklyn, NY. 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.
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
Creative LED Circuits
Ngutu College, Exploring Identity and Futures
Workshop for Children (30 Minutes)
February 2025
Kaurna Country (Adelaide, South Australia, AUS)
Parsons School of Design, BFA Design & Technology
Undergraduate Course (16 Weeks)
Fall 2021
New York, NY, USA
Parsons School of Design, BFA Design & Technology
Undergraduate Course (16 Weeks – Online)
Spring 2021
New York, NY, USA
Parsons School of Design, BFA Design & Technology
Undergraduate Course (16 Weeks – Online)
Fall 2020
New York, NY, USA
Afrotectopia, The School of Afrotectopia
Workshop for Adults (3 Hours)
January 2020
New York, NY, USA
Pioneer Works, Good Shepherd Services STEAM Program
Workshop Series for Children (3-10 Weeks)
Summer 2019 - Fall 2020
New York, NY, USA
Guest Critic for "Major Studio"
Parsons MFA in Design & Technology, October 2025
New York, NY, USA
Keynote: "Engineering a Creative Careeer"
ColorStack's "Stacked Up Summit", August 2025
San Francisco, CA, USA
Guest Speaker for "Intro to Web" Course
NYU Integrated Digital Media, October 2023
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Guest Speaker at "The Musical Web"
School for Poetic Computation, April 2023
New York, NY, USA (Online)
Speaker at "Fireside Chat"
Brilliant Black Minds, October 2022
New York, NY, USA (Online)
"Engineering a Creative Career in Software"
Brilliant Black Minds, October 2022
New York, NY, USA (Online)
Guest Speaker at "Python Crash Course"
Upperline Code, July 2021
New York, NY, USA (Online)
Open-Source Software Toolkits for the Arts (OSSTA) Lecture Series, April 2021
Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Online)
Guest Speaker at "Introduction to Machine Learning for the Arts"
NYU Interactive Media Arts, October 2020
New York, NY, USA (Online)
Panelist at Institute for Entrepreneurship
Prep for Prep, July 2020
New York, NY, USA (Online)
Guest Critic for "Intro to Web" Course
NYU Integrated Digital Media, May 2020
New York, NY, USA (Online)
Creative Pathways in Computer Science (with Omayeli Arenyeka)
Harlem Children's Zone, February 2020
New York, NY, USA
Co-Organizer of Processing Community Day NYC
Processing Community Day, February 2020
New York, NY, USA
Panel Discussion at Decode Experiential Vol. V
Lightbox, September 2019
New York, NY, USA
"Advice & Insights for Institute For Entrepreneurship Students"
Upperline Code, August 2019
New York, NY, USA
Processing Community Day NYC, February 2019
New York, NY, USA
Panel Discussion at Student Assembly
Avenues: The World School, December 2018
New York, NY, USA
""Hacking" Mobile Apps"
Open Lab, November 2016
Evanston, IL, USA
"Serving Social Change: Leveraging the Internet for the Empowerment of Social Movements"
MozFest, November 2015
London, England, UK
TensorFlow, April 2021
Speaker at Pond Mag & Eto Ano’s "Year-End Education Convention"
BABY TV by Baby's All Right, December 2020
Processing Foundation, July 2020
The Daily Northwestern, May 2018
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
No Media
The Wrong 2022 Biennale
Online (https://thewrong.tv)
2022
eTextiles Spring Break: Artists In Residence Exhibition
Prairie Ronde: Downtown Gallery
Vicksburg, MI, USA
2022
Poetic Computation: Seven Years of SFPC
Westbeth Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2020
Creative Code Festival
Lightbox
New York, NY, USA
2020
SFPC Spring 2019 Student Showcase
School for Poetic Computation
New York, NY, USA
2019
Innuendo
Light Grey Art Lab
Minneapolis, MN, USA
2019
Second Sundays
Pioneer Works
Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019