Arthur Jafa

Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Academic Program Affiliation(s): MFA Film/Video

Biography: Film/Video. Worked with Julie Dash on Daughters of the Dust, as well as on Spike Lee's Crooklyn and Manthia Diawara's Rouch in Reverse. One of Jafa's projects is the development of what he calls "black visual intonation." His ideas concerning this project may be found in "69," his essay in Black Popular Culture. Jafa is interested in the ways in which a black film culture can be developed that responds to and reflects black ways of life in the diaspora, and investigating what he calls "black artificial intelligence."
Phone: 845-758-7481
Department: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts