D. Scot Miller
D. Scot Miller is the founder of The Afrosurreal Arts Movement through his publication of The Afrosurreal Manifesto in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 20, 2009. Miller is Managing Editor of The East Bay Express, Columnist-In-Residence at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Advisory Board Member of Nocturnes Journal of Literary Arts, and regular contributor to several websites and magazines; Miller's work has been cited in several books, including: How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Bruce, Duke University Press, 2021), Percy Rainford: Duchamps "Invisible" Photographer (Taylor, Virginia Museum Of Fine Art, 2018), Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (Nyong’o, NYU Press, 2018) American Multiculturalism In Context At Home and Abroad (Cambridge Scholars, 2017), The 21st Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life (Demirturk, Lexington, 2016), Nine-Tenths of the Law (Dobbs, AK Press, 2012), and Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture (Womack, Lawrence Hill Books, 2012).
May 20th, 2024 marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Afrosurreal Manifesto, published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Before writing the manifesto, I checked in with Amiri Baraka and Google to see if the word had been used as an artistic framework.