KEMETOPOLIS
Flagship city-planet and narrative universe.
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MARC JOY MEDIASTORY • POWER • FUTURE
MARC JOY MEDIA / FOUNDED 2020
PART ARCHIVE.
PART LAB.
ALL STORY.
A South Seattle multimedia studio building Black futures through fiction, documentary, music, visual development, interactive experiences, and tools made because the existing ones were getting on our nerves.
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STORY • POWER • FUTURE
STORY • POWER • FUTURE
MARCUS JOYNER / MARCJOY
A STUDIO BUILT
AFTER HOURS.
Marcus Joyner is a writer, visual storyteller, AI creative practitioner, musician, and Technical Support Specialist II at Seattle Public Schools. The day job keeps public education technology moving. Evenings and weekends open the doors to Kemetopolis, Blaq Timbre, Scattered Thrones, and whatever signal showed up during the commute.
Marc Joy Media was founded in 2020 in Rainier Valley. Its work moves between personal mythology, community memory, Black history, speculative systems, humor, education, and emerging creative technology.
The mission is direct: build Black futures in public. Show the scaffolding. Keep ownership close. Leave enough residue for people to see that a human touched the work.
THE STUDIO SYSTEM
ONE HOUSE.
MANY SIGNALS.
SCATTERED THRONES
Recovering Black figures from incomplete records.
OPEN →BLAQ TIMBRE
Sonic Cosmos, Eternal Ether, and the signal between.
LISTEN →DREAM IN PUBLIC
The Obsidian Feed, field notes, and living process.
READ →NEVER ONE MONTH
Black history and innovation across all 365 days.
EXPLORE →THE GLASS HOUSE
The Obsidian-based source of truth behind the worlds.
PRIVATE ARCHIVEPROCESS
ARCHIVE.
REMIX.
PROTOTYPE.
01 / FIND THE SIGNALStart with the memory, contradiction, joke, or unfinished question that refuses to leave.
02 / BUILD THE SYSTEMGive the idea rules, history, material texture, ownership, and something worth pushing against.
03 / MAKE IT PUBLICRelease the work with enough scaffolding visible that other people can enter the conversation.