Ananda Ray is a Detroit-based artist and creative technologist whose work investigates the intersections of race, identity, and emerging technologies. Rooted in Black-centered design principles, she uses technology as a tool for resistance, resilience, and reclamation.
Her practice centers care, visibility, and active participation, inviting audiences to question who technologies serve and how they might be reimagined through a more just and equitable lens. Working across game engines, virtual reality, and AI systems, Ananda examines how colonization, systemic racism, and technological bias impact marginalized communities, while building alternatives grounded in community memory and collective power.
Held In Sight is an interactive workshop where Black Detroit community members co-create KEEPER, a collective memory installation that transforms individual stories into shared visual language. Through facilitated dialogue and hands-on creation, we explore how memories get passed down, what makes them sacred, and how individual stories weave into collective remembering.
This gathering builds a living archive where community voices directly shape the installation's visual language, proving that technology can serve preservation and transparency when we build it together and collaboratively.