3.0.0
2023-10-20
Added geolocation to Kinfolk with Mary Jones at SOHO Building (106 Greene St, NYC). More geolocated experiences coming soon!
2.3.0
2023-09-28
We've optimized the size of the app, allowing you to download content on-demand!
2.2.12
2023-09-22
We've added new monuments: Sun Ra, Bayou Road, Andre Cailloux & Félicie Coulon.
2.2.11
2023-09-07
We've added more monuments and videos to Scan Mode.
2.2.10
2023-08-24
This version of Kinfolk improves the stability of AR monuments.
2.2.9
2023-07-31
Kinfolk is partnering with Your Legacy Tours in Nashville, TN on July 25th.
2.2.8
2023-07-21
Kinfolk is partnering with Your Legacy Tours in Nashville, TN on July 25th.
2.2.7
2023-07-18
Kinfolk is partnering with Your Legacy Tours in Nashville, TN on July 25th.
2.2.6
2023-06-17
We're excited to share an optimized Kinfolk app with five new monuments in the app! There is now Samuel Anderson, Manuel De Gerrit De Reus, Resistance on Slave Ships: Where is thy market now?, Defying Slave Codes: We Outside!, and Dred and Harriet Scott: Black Love.
You can experience Samuel Anderson, Manuel De Gerrit De Reus, and Sojourner Truth in person at the Kinfolk: Black Lands experience during Tribeca Festival in NYC until July 17th.
We will be debuting Resistance on Slave Ships: Where is thy market now?, Defying Slave Codes: We Outside!, and Dred and Harriet Scott: Black Love at the Juneteenth Black Love Festival in Florence, Alabama on June 17th.
We will also be in LA for Juneteenth Festival on June 19th. Drop by the Kinfolk booth to engage with AR monuments and design a monument for a descendant.
2.2.5
2023-06-15
We're excited to share five new monuments in the app! There is now Samuel Anderson, Manuel De Gerrit De Reus, Resistance on Slave Ships: Where is thy market now?, Defying Slave Codes: We Outside!, and Dred and Harriet Scott: Black Love.
You can experience Samuel Anderson, Manuel De Gerrit De Reus, and Sojourner Truth in person at the Kinfolk: Black Lands experience during Tribeca Festival in NYC until July 17th.
We will be debuting Resistance on Slave Ships: Where is thy market now?, Defying Slave Codes: We Outside!, and Dred and Harriet Scott: Black Love at the Juneteenth Black Love Festival in Florence, Alabama on June 17th.
We will also be in LA for Juneteenth Festival on June 19th. Drop by the Kinfolk booth to engage with AR monuments and design a monument for a descendant.
2.2.4
2023-06-03
Sojourner Truth monument is now in Kinfolk, with an updated audio experience! Learn more about her through the app or at the Tribeca Festival Immersive Black Lands experience from June 9 to 17.
2.2.3
2023-06-01
Sojourner Truth monument is now in Kinfolk! Learn more about her through the app or at the Tribeca Festival Immersive Black Lands experience from June 9 to 17.
2.2.2
2023-05-31
Now find Kinfolk monuments in the public! Look for green Kinfolk stickers, then use scan mode to bring the monuments to life.
2.2.1
2023-04-28
This update features instructions and a demo video for using Scan Mode.
2.2.0
2023-04-26
Release notes:
This Kinfolk update has new instructions for using Scan Mode at MoMA, including a demo video! There are also new UI/UX and optimized assets.
2.1.1
2023-02-14
Welcome to the new and improved Kinfolk! Thank you for joining us on this ride as we branch out into the world. Here are the updates:
• We are excited to announce our participation in the MoMA’s new exhibit: New York, New Publics. We will showcase new monuments from New York City History: Seneca Village, David Ruggles, and The Young Lords. The exhibit will be on view from February 19th to July 29th.
• We have added Scan Mode, a new feature that brings the power of image recognition to Kinfolk. You can now activate images and artworks in the real world.
Enjoy!
2.1.0
2023-02-12
Welcome to the new and improved Kinfolk! Thank you for joining us on this ride as we branch out into the world. Here are the updates:
• We are excited to announce our participation in the MoMA’s new exhibit: New York, New Publics. We will showcase new monuments from New York City History: Seneca Village, David Ruggles, and The Young Lords.
• We have added Scan Mode, a new feature that brings the power of image recognition to Kinfolk. You can now activate images and artworks in the real world.
Enjoy!
2.0.0
2022-11-11
Introducing Kinfolk Events! You will now be able to engage with digital monuments in the wild through geolocation.
In support of the Kinfolk National Tour, we will be activating public spaces across the country with community events and digital walking tours. Hope to see you at an event soon!
1.1.3
2021-09-28
Movers & Shakers partnered with local artists from Winston Salem to curate a series of monuments that highlight the city's rich history of Black excellence. This series is a look into 3 figures lives and the way that their ideas laid the foundations of Winston Salem today.
1.1.2
2021-06-19
***Kinfolk is now showing at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival***
For Juneteenth and the Tribeca Film Festival, we are showcasing examples of Black resistance throughout history. The 4 new monuments in our Juneteenth series will highlight the diverse ways in which Black people have been able to use community, spirituality, and expression as ways to find freedom, both of our body and our mind. The history of Blackness is a history of disruption towards freedom. From Zora’s anthropological work in the South that disrupted the ways in which Black life was portrayed to Fannie Lou’s voting rights activism that disrupted the political landscape of the Jim Crow South, these figures embody the many ways that Black people have disrupted our oppressive state in order to achieve freedom.
This update will include the following monuments:
Zora Neale Hurston
Denmark Vesey
Fannie Lou Hamer
Harry Belafonte
1.1.1
2021-06-16
***Kinfolk is now showing at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival***
For Juneteenth and the Tribeca Film Festival, we are showcasing examples of Black resistance throughout history. The 4 new monuments in our Juneteenth series will highlight the diverse ways in which Black people have been able to use community, spirituality, and expression as ways to find freedom, both of our body and our mind. The history of Blackness is a history of disruption towards freedom. From Zora’s anthropological work in the South that disrupted the ways in which Black life was portrayed to Fannie Lou’s voting rights activism that disrupted the political landscape of the Jim Crow South, these figures embody the many ways that Black people have disrupted our oppressive state in order to achieve freedom.
This update will include the following monuments:
Zora Neale Hurston
Denmark Vesey
Fannie Lou Hamer
Harry Belafonte
1.1.0
2021-06-13
***Kinfolk is now showing at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival***
For Juneteenth and the Tribeca Film Festival, we are showcasing examples of Black resistance throughout history. The 4 new monuments in our Juneteenth series will highlight the diverse ways in which Black people have been able to use community, spirituality, and expression as ways to find freedom, both of our body and our mind. The history of Blackness is a history of disruption towards freedom. From Zora’s anthropological work in the South that disrupted the ways in which Black life was portrayed to Fannie Lou’s voting rights activism that disrupted the political landscape of the Jim Crow South, these figures embody the many ways that Black people have disrupted our oppressive state in order to achieve freedom.
This update will include the following monuments:
Zora Neale Hurston
Denmark Vesey
Fannie Lou Hamer
Harry Belafonte
1.0.2
2021-04-03
You can now hear each figure's biography read aloud in Learn Mode!
1.0.1
2021-02-27
We've made bug fixes and design improvements throughout; and updated our spatial audio & screen recording features to function seamlessly with Bluetooth devices.
1.0.0
2021-02-24
Our app's curriculum now links to our archive at kinfolkhistory.com so you can explore further.