Carey J. Flack is a creative technologist and 7th generation Oklahoman based in Oakland, California. Her work investigates Black Southern ecologies and place-making, embodied memory, and cultural technologies — expressed through archival research, courses, slow craft, art, and ml/code.

Through @pressed.roots, Carey documents Black land histories across the American South. She also co-directs MEMORY PATTERN, a quilting course that explores and connects global Black textile traditions with the digital, for 80+ participants across the US/Canada. Her place-based work includes Mapping Black Oklahoma and the Clearview Historical Mapping project, two community GIS projects that highlight Black and Afro-Indigenous Memory and archive one of Oklahoma’s 13 remaining Black towns. Her first tiny land-based ML model, “Sketches From the Field,” explores the relationship between humans, machines, and nature.
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Carey has taught at the School for Poetic Computation and was featured in Seventeen Magazine as a “Power Girl” for her technology work. She’s given talks at the United Nations, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and New York University.