{"id":2701,"date":"2026-02-26T19:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/?page_id=2701"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:46:50","slug":"about-shiann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/index.php\/about-shiann\/","title":{"rendered":"About Shiann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;false&#8221;][vc_column full_height=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1772135110414{background-image: url(https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SisCxr-ShotBySelina-6-of-42-scaled.jpg?id=2713) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1419024612249{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-right: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;background-color: #181818 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;custom_class&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Program Associate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Shiann Croft<\/span><\/h1>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Shiann Croft \u00a0(she\/her pronouns) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and storyteller whose work explores the intersections of art, technology, and ancestral knowledge. Rooted in Black feminist thought and Indigenous worldviews, her practice moves between performance, sound, and digital media to examine how stories, memories, and embodied knowledge systems can be reimagined as living archives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Working through what she calls \u201cembodied data,\u201d Croft treats the body as both archive and interface \u2014 a vessel for transmitting oral histories, sensory memory, and ancestral information that exceeds the written word. Her research asks: What do our bodies remember that history has forgotten? and how might digital tools become extensions of ancestral intelligence rather than instruments of erasure?<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">As the <strong>Founder and Artistic Director of The Coven<\/strong>, Croft curates a creative research collective and interdisciplinary incubator that nurtures the artistic and intellectual growth of Black women, femmes, and gender-expansive beings. Through residencies, workshops, and immersive programs, The Coven bridges storytelling, ecology, and emerging technologies to imagine new ways of preserving and performing Black and Afro-Indigenous memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:15px;\"><\/aside>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;false&#8221;][vc_column full_height=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1772135110414{background-image: url(https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SisCxr-ShotBySelina-6-of-42-scaled.jpg?id=2713) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1419024612249{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-right: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;background-color: #181818 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;custom_class&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][vc_column_text]Program Associate Shiann Croft Shiann Croft \u00a0(she\/her pronouns) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and storyteller whose work explores the intersections of art, technology, and ancestral knowledge. 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