The Abundant Intelligences research program imagines anew how to conceptualize and design Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on Indigenous Knowledge (IK) systems. Our approach is grounded in Indigenous epistemologies containing robust conceptual frameworks for understanding how technology can be developed in ways that integrate it into existing lifeways, support the flourishing of future generations, and are optimized for abundance rather than scarcity. Our goal is to advance methods for improving AI to better serve Indigenous communities and others through exploring and developing culturally-grounded AI systems that support Indigenous ways of knowing and that recognize the abundant multiplicity of ways of being intelligent in the world. This institutional presentation will introduce Abundant Intelligences, a six-year international research program that aims at exploring how Indigenous Knowledge systems might provide pathways towards rebuilding AI’s epistemological foundations to transform these tools away from colonial practices of exclusion, extraction, manipulation, and eradication and into engines of abundance for increasing our care of one another and our world.

Inheriting a Digital Art Archive in Aotearoa looks at how the work of understanding, presenting and recording digital arts practice in Aotearoa is understood, cared for and valued by others. It looks at the intergenerational significance of non-profit work by past board members of the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network and how that has translated in the two decades since ADA was established.