Antawan I. Byrd is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University and an Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. He recently organized exhibitions of work by Mimi Cherono Ng'ok, Kader Attia and the Medu Art Ensemble. He served as a curator for the 2nd Lagos Biennial of Contemporary Art (2019) and the 10th Bamako Encounters, Biennale of African Photography (2015). His current book project offers a Pan-African analysis of sound technologies' influence on art and decolonial politics throughout the long sixties.