Leading Africanist art historian Dr. Henry Drewal, a principal scholar of the Yoruba diaspora, examines sensiotics—the essential unity of body and mind—as critical to understanding art, performance and history. His presentation emphasizes embodied perception as scholarship in opposition to the practice of focusing only on the text. Multidisciplinary artist Renata Wheedbee presents an AfroFuturist vision that merges musical aesthetics, myth and ancestral futurity. Her work reinterprets African histories and traditions through AI technology. Their exchange highlights sensory knowledge as a bridge between tradition and futurism.