Heard: Sounds from the Artbase" for Rhizome.org and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Mendi's 2004 book Armor and Flesh (Lotus Press) won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. They contributed a chapter to the 2008 Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. The same year they produced a compilation CD entitled Crosstalk: American Speech Music on Bridge Records. The album features music by Vijay Iyer, Guillermo E. Brown, Shelley Hirsch, George E. Lewis, Pamela Z, John Link, Paul Lansky, Tracie Morris, DJ Spooky, Daniel Bernard Roumain and Peter Gordon/Lawrence Weiner. Selected works Black.Net.Art Actions Black.Net.Art Actions is a suite of new media works the Obadikes produced between 2001 and 2003 published in re : skin at MIT Press and available at their then-website blackartnet.com. The works include Blackness for Sale (2001), Keeping Up Appearances (2001), The Interaction of Coloreds (2002), and The Pink of Stealth (2003). Blackness For Sale Created in 2001, Keith Obadike's Blackness for Sale was an eBay page advertising the sale of his blackness. An item for sale on the platform typically includes a title or name of the product, a description of its uses, a starting price, and a photograph. For Blackness for Sale, Obadike followed this format replacing the description with a litany of pros and cons of being Black. He gave selling points juxtaposed with “warnings” of the drawbacks of owning a Black identity. The piece furthered the notion that Black people have been homogenized to the point where their experiences have become indistinguishable; to the outside world and the buyer, there is one Black experience. Part of a person is advertised and valued much higher while systematically omitting the other elements that define their personhood. A Black person's most profitable aspect is no longer their physical body but rather other things that encompasses their existence. Black culture has become a new form of capital, the internet where it is exchanged. Black culture can be taken from the internet without having to interact with or acknowledge the Black body, thus erasing Black people. Whereas before, Black people were only valued in capitalist societies for their physical abilities, they are now more so valued for their cultural capital. The Pink of Stealth This six-minute sound piece references the English foxtrot tradition (its title, references the term In the pink) and uses African