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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
De Angela L. Duff
De Angela L. Duff is an Industry Professor in Integrated Digital Media (IDM) at NYU Tandon. Her mission is to share her passion for music, photography & technology with others. In March 2019, she organized the Prince BATDANCE symposium at Spelman and in 2018 she also organized the EYE NO Prince Lovesexy & Betty Davis They Say I’m Different symposia at NYU. She is currently organizing her next Prince symposium for 2020, #DirtyMind40BK/#GraffitiBridge30BK, and producing & editing the Prince & Prince-related podcasts for Grown Folks Music. She has spoken at the Prince from MPLS symposium, Purple Reign Conference, EYEO Festival, Black Portraitures IV, III, II & II: Revisited, AIGA’s Social Studies and Massaging Media 2 Conferences, and HOW’s Annual Design Conference. De Angela holds an MFA in Studio Art (Photography) from MiCA, a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University, and a BS in Textiles from Georgia Tech. You can see her past and present projects at http://www.polishedsolid.com.
New York University, Industry Professor, Integrated Digital Media