Black Avatar brings together artists, technologists, and thinkers who are expanding digital identity through AI, gaming, wearable tech, and ancestral memory. Drawing on Octavia Butler’s call to “make your own worlds,” this issue examines digital selfhood as both a site of creativity and consumption—where aesthetic codes, cultural signals, and market systems converge. Black Avatar interrogates how technology replicates, distorts, and redefines what it means to be seen.