Wilson while working at Duke University. Keith went on to study painting and digital art at North Carolina Central University and later became the first African-American to earn an MFA in Sound Design from Yale University. Career In 1996 Mendi and Keith started making conceptual Internet art and sound art works together with the goal of creating Internet operas. In 1998 they studied the art and conducted interviews with artists in Ghana on electronic media. After requesting sound submissions from friends by email, they created the Uli Suite a sound art piece based on the Igbo abstract art form. In 2000 they created "My Hands/Wishful Thinking", an Internet art memorial for Amadou Diallo. This work, exhibited at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in the 2001 group show "Race in Digital Space," generated much discussion both online and off when they offered Keith's Blackness for sale on eBay in 2001 as an Internet performance. Mendi also created the minimalist hypertext piece Keeping Up Appearances, the first Black feminist net.art work. In 2002 Mendi and Keith premiered their Internet opera The Sour Thunder (Bridge Records, Inc.) which featured hypertext writings by literary critic Houston Baker, performance artist Coco Fusco and musician DJ Spooky among others. This was the first new media work commissioned by the Yale Cabaret, and the Obadikes launched The Interaction of Coloreds (commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art). In 2003 Keith worked with playwright Anna Deavere Smith as sound designer and composer for her play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 at the Lincoln Center Institute, and Mendi's poetry was featured at the Studio Museum in Harlem in response to an exhibition of visual artist Gary Simmons’ work. Also in 2003 they launched "The Pink of Stealth", an Internet/ DVD surround sound work commissioned by the New York African Film Festival and Electronic Arts Intermix, and The Sour Thunder was broadcast internationally from 104.1 FM in Berlin and was released on CD from Bridge Records in 2004. Keith was also awarded a Connecticut Critics’ Circle Award for his sound design work at the Yale Repertory Theater. They received a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship to develop an installation and album entitled TaRonda Who Wore White Gloves. Their Internet opera, entitled Four Electric Ghosts, was developed for Toni Morrison's Atelier at Princeton University in 2005 and the Kitchen in New York in 2009. They've curated the sound art exhibition "Ya