I'm Katelin Ten — a multidisciplinary scholar-artist, digital humanist, and instructor based in New York City. My work brings together Black studies, archival practice, community technology, and expressive computing.
I hold a BA in African American Studies from the University of Maryland and have spent years building immersive labs, running programs, editing grants, and creating digital projects at the intersection of humanities scholarship and hands-on making.
"Bringing research out — and bringing communities in."
Most recently I served as Textile Librarian at Holly Hunt in New York. Before that I spent years at the University of Maryland building immersive XR labs, coordinating digital humanities programs, and supporting community-based arts and technology work.
I'm a McNair Scholar, a Rutgers English Diversity Institute Fellow, and an affiliate faculty member at the AI Interdisciplinary Institute at UMD.
HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Python 3
Figma · Adobe XD · Premiere Pro
Lens Studio · Twine · RiTa.js
GitHub · Notion · Powertools · Slack
Robotics · Carpentry · UI/UX Design
From designing immersive XR labs to curating the first scholarly African diasporic electronic literature collection, my work asks: who gets to tell the story, and what tools do they need to tell it well?
First scholarly African diasporic electronic literature collection — curatorial and web development with Dr. Rosamond King
Clock interface (HTML, CSS, JS) exploring Blackness and the articulations of space-time
Archival, interactive magazine — digital zine-making as Black diasporic storytelling
History of computing, media studies & archaeology through a Black diasporic lens
Computational literacy exercise — a toolkit for digital narrative and data storytelling
Social media branding — with Dr. Liz Alexander
Poetry manuscripts at the intersection of computational writing and literary form — interactive AI chatbots
Essay — anteaesthetics and media studies centering Black material knowledge and technoscience
Afrofuturism and speculative fiction as lenses for science and engineering inquiry
“CP Time: Blackness and the Articulations of Space-Time in African American Literature and Culture”
Research on cultural memory, survival strategies, and Black temporality
Open to collaborations, consulting, curatorial projects, teaching opportunities, and conversations at the intersection of technology, Black studies, and community practice.