Warpmode is a conceptual game and thought experiment by artist Jazsalyn. As a part of the game players draw cards and respond to prompts to rethink social frameworks through Black Metatheories: Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse.

Warpmode reframes the format of a deck of cards as an expansive game of thought experiments. The game is fully realized when played as a group, but it can also be played alone in one's mind. Players draw cards and respond to existential prompts to envision new worlds and alternate realities.

As a part of the Warpmode world, Black Beyond has organized a program series in NYC. The Warpmode Program series is co-presented by Onassis ONX and Pioneer Works, in partnership with Metalabel. The first iteration is also co-presented with Serpentine Arts Technologies. Follow our social channels to join the next event and play with us.

Limited First Edition of 190 Published by Metalabel

40 Cards 2.5" x 3.5"

About the Artist Jazsalyn is an artist and technologist working where fiction and reality collide. Through alternative media and re-indigenization her work considers new data models and memory restoration to preserve Ancestral Intelligence. Jazsalyn is the Artistic Director of the experimental curatorial project Black Beyond and teaches at The New School where she has written studio coursework on African and Diaspora rituals as speculative technology.