Alyse Stone (b. New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist and engineer who builds worlds that bend time through sculpture, film, installation, writing, and mixed-media painting. Stone is the creator of The Black Alchemisphere, a thousand-year history of women told through a speculative, time-parallel universe where stolen histories become living myths. Drawing from Black and Mexican archives, Mesoamerican cosmologies, emerging technology, and her writing, Stone constructs immersive worlds in which history, memory, and the future exist simultaneously.

The Black Alchemisphere collapses linear time into living archives. Through historical futurism, world-building, critical writing, and technological experimentation, Stone investigates how societies inherit, preserve, and redesign systems of meaning across periods of profound transformation. Her current chapter, Inheritance, examines how memory, intelligence, and possibility are transmitted through DNA, cosmology, land, and cultural memory. The work moves between fictional writing and material artifacts, sculpture, painting, film, and installation, as fragments of a larger world still being built.

Stone’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Tate Modern’s Beyond Surfaces festival, and featured by Good Morning America, Calvin Klein × Perfect Magazine, and NBC LA News. She was shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries and the Somerset House Fellowship and received a commission from the Venice Film Festival.

A Royal College of Art graduate, Stone holds a background in mechanical engineering and has designed products for Apple and Google. Her practice investigates who gets to author the values embedded in future systems and what cultural infrastructures may be required as the architectures of time, power, and intelligence begin to shift. At its core, her work asks how the systems we inherit shape the futures we are able to imagine, and who gets to design what comes next.

My practice explores how systems of history, memory, identity, and power shape the worlds we inherit and the worlds we imagine. With a background in engineering and contemporary art, I approach world-building as a form of research: examining the structures that organize human experience while imagining alternative possibilities for the future.

At the center of my practice is a methodology I call historical futurism, or time-parallel fictioning; a process of constructing speculative worlds that exist across multiple timelines, where histories, archives, myths, and lived experiences converge. Through writing, sculpture, painting, film, and installation, I create artifacts from these imagined worlds as a way of examining the systems that shape our own.

My ongoing research project, The Black Alchemisphere, investigates the relationship between ancestral memory, technology, and futurity. Drawing from archival cosmologies, science, technology, and personal histories, the work considers how data-driven storytelling is preserved, transformed, and reimagined. Objects within the practice function as remnants of worlds: evidence of narratives that exist beyond conventional historical frameworks.

My work is informed by questions surrounding inheritance: what is passed down, what is erased, and what futures can be constructed from the fragments that remain. Through speculative storytelling and material experimentation, I explore how fiction can become a tool for critique, healing, and the creation of systems to inform a new world order.