03/16/2026
We are so excited to host Michigan Central X Newlab Creative Fellow, who will be hosting Held In Sight, an interactive workshop where Black Detroit community members co-create KEEPER, a collective memory installation that transforms individual stories into shared visual language.
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.
This workshop is specifically for Black participants. Sign up at the link in bio!
About The Artist:
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.
Recent work includes Reflections of Resistance (2021), an augmented reality mural honoring Black women’s political legacy created with Pratt Institute and Myrtle Avenue Partnership, and KEEPER (2024), an AI-driven installation rooted in community archives exhibited at Pratt’s Schafler Gallery. As a Fellow at Michigan Central, she continues building work that prioritizes inclusion, memory, and imagination while expanding access to creative technology for underrepresented communities through workshops, storytelling, and intentional design