bass filling our ears, bodies dancing to new sounds, words clip from documents that

oppressed us making them our own. The broken patterns of soft, colorful fabric. Our culture is synonymous with experimental creativity.

Here are three examples of how.

This is two minute black history,

what you didn't learn in school. Academic and digital artist Nertrise R Gaskins defines techno-vernacular

creativity for TVC as something we already know the ways black people create an experiment with the resources available

to us and the soul we infuse into it.

Gaskin's names three modes of TVC, re-appropriation, improvisation, and conceptual remixing.

Re-appropriation is making things from our pressers our own. One way is how

black poets reclaim historical documents in their work like M. Nurebesse Phillips

interpretation of the Zong's slave ship massacre, reusing the words from its

case report to breathe life into the experiences of enslaved Africans improve

improvisation requires spontaneity and invention.

One example is improvisational quilting,

where pre-colonial and enslaved Africans

skillfully use irregular patterning and fabric scraps, often without knowing what the finished product would look like.

Similarly to playing music by ear or cooking without a recipe, those finished products were unique and captivating.

Conceptual remixing means combining available unlikely things.

For example, Jamaicans in the 70s manipulated original recordings with elements like

bass echo and delay.

The rise of hip-hop included some of these techniques leading to a lasting

self-evolving culture. Our experimental creativity not only holds global influence today, but will be part of our survival as we reclaim the past, destroy and

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