A.M. Darke is an artist and professor of Games and New Media with a research focus on Black virtuality. Darke is the founder of the Open Source Afro Hair Library, a free resource of 3D assets celebrating Black hair textures and styles, developed in collaboration with Black 3D artists from around the world. In addition to her renowned scholarship in the arts, with projects like ‘Ye or Nay?, ar+ show, and fairlyintelligent.tech, Professor Darke has also been awarded for her groundbreaking work in computer graphics, helping to develop the first algorithms dedicated to the simulation of afro-textured hair.