5.4 Institutional Presentations
Tracks
Track 4
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Plaza P8 |
Speaker
Professor Hēmi Whaanga
Head of School - Te Pūtahi A Toi
Massey University
IP: Abundant Intelligences: Indigenous Knowledges and AI
1:30 PM - 1:45 PMAbstract
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.
Biography
Mr Ted Whitaker
Trustee
Aotearoa Digital Arts Network
AP: Inheriting a Digital Art Archive in Aotearoa
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMAbstract
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.
Biography
Ted Whitaker is an artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. He graduated from the Dunedin School of Art (MFA) in 2016. Recent exhibitions include; Oceans turn to goo, Toi Pōneke, 2020; Running in the Background, Te Tuhi, 2019; and Small Vision Playback, I: project space, Beijing, 2018. Ted
has been an artist in residence at I: project space, Beijing and Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin. Ted has been a trustee of Aotearoa Digital Arts Network since 2013 and has contributed to significant curatorial, administrative and systems projects for the organisation. These include, Storm Channels (2017), ADA Symposiums (2021, 2022 and 2024),
Tech Object Seminar Series (2022), the redevelopment of the ADA website (2023) and the publication series (2022-2023).
Mx Vicki Smith
Chair
Aotearoa Digital Arts Network
Co-presenter
Biography
Vicki Smith is an artist from Harihari, Aotearoa (NZ), a remote rural community. Her ancestral heritage is primarily celt. She is attached to Te Wai Pounamu (South Island) through the bones of ancestors for several generations and connects to forebears in Scotland, Ireland, England and France. Vicki has a diverse working background across science, education and community. Her practice employs considered media to create positive active engagement in environmental care and restoration, with recent projects deploying multiple access points through creating field guides, events, games, walks, restoration work and Story Maps. artecology.net || sounding.nz || healthystreams.nz Her collaborations in performance and digital communities include Aotearoa Digital Artists (ADA) Network - ada.net.nz (as member since 2003, trustee from 2012 and Chair from 2022) Avatar BodyCollision 2001 and UpStage (co-founder 2002) upstage.org.nz
Session chair
Lucie Ketelsen
The University of Western Australia
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