About Ayana Zaire Cotton
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Seeda School is the world’s first black feminist business school.
Seeda is a non-binary biotechnologist from Cykofa, a parallel universe suspended among past and future — where cornrows are cryptography keys, data farms are data forests, the weaving loom is a computer, a cloth is a document, and chain link fencing from demolished prisons are used as architectural membrane woven with plant life. In Cykofa the trees have learned to speak using the data Cykofians have encoded in the tree’s DNA and tree ring memory. Named after a timeless ancestor Seeda School is a generative site of transdisciplinary possibility and practice inspired by the world of Cykofa.
This newsletter is a research container for the practice of Cykofa Narration as an experimental collective authorship methodology. Remembering that we can store data into the DNA of plants and read information from a tree's rings through dendrochronology, I developed Cykofa Narration as an anti-author aesthetic.