Ⓥ 7.1 Indigenous Epistemologies
Tracks
Track 1
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Plaza Auditorium |
Overview
This session will be livestreamed from Brisbane for virtual delegates
Speaker
Postcommodity
Postcommodity
Keynote presentation: A matter of worldview
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMAbstract
In their keynote, Postcommodity highlights the important roles that worldviews play in immersive art and interaction design. In the context of acceleration with profound resource limitations, they discuss the challenges of empathy, listening and consensus-building, and the dilemmas associated with the intersubjective negotiation of meaning across ways of being, knowing, and believing.
Biography
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary art collective comprised of Cristóbal Martínez (Genizaro, Manito, Xicano), and Kade L. Twist (Cherokee). Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, multinational, multiracial and multi-ethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence. Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere.
Postcommodity are the recipients of grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2010), Creative Capital (2012), Art Matters (2013), Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (2014), Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (2017), Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship (2017-2018), Harker Fund of the San Francisco Foundation (2018-2019), Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Shift Award (2021), Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions (2022), and the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2023-2024). The collective has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: Contour the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, BE; Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CAN; Adelaide International 2012, Adeliade, AUS; 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AUS; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Art in General, New York, NY; documenta14, Athens, GR and Kassel, DE; the 57th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, PA; Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, CAN; and their historic land art installation Repellent Fence at the U.S./Mexico border near Douglas, AZ and Agua Prieta, SON. The collective was awarded the Fine Prize for From Smoke and Tangled Waters, They Carried Fire Home, commissioned for the 57th ed. Carnegie International.
Postcommodity acknowledges the important contributions of its previous collaborators: Raven Chacon (2009-2018), Steven Yazzie (2007-2010), Nathan Young (2007-2015), Adam Ingram-Goble (Game Remains), Andrew McCord (If History Moves at the Speed of Its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing, and Promoting a More Just, Verdant and Harmonious Resolution), Annabel Wong (Dead River) and Existence AD (Dead River).
Postcommodity is represented by Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
Professor Jason Lewis
Concordia University
P: Abundant Intelligences: Integrating Computational Practices into Indigenous Epistemologies
11:30 AM - 12:15 PMAbstract
This panel will explore the ideas and critiques, as well as practices and Knowledges that inform the Abundant Intelligences research program. The Abundant Intelligences research program imagines anew how to conceptualize and design Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on Indigenous Knowledges (IK) and Systems. Our approach is grounded in Indigenous epistemologies containing robust conceptual frameworks for developing technologies that integrate into existing lifeways, supporting 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 everybody through exploring and developing culturally-grounded AI systems that support Indigenous ways of Knowing. This panel will present works from our co-investigators and discuss who will explore different aspects of the research program.
Biography
Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet, and software designer. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, where he conducts research/creation projects exploring computation as a creative and cultural material. Lewis is deeply committed to developing intriguing new forms of expression by working on conceptual, critical, creative and technical levels simultaneously. He is the University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University. Lewis was born and raised in northern California, and currently lives in Montreal.
Lewis directs the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, and co-directs the Indigenous Futures Research Centre, the Indigenous Protocol and AI Workshops, the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network, and the Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Video Game Design.
Hemi Whaanga
Panelist
Biography
Mr Johnson Witehira
Indigenous Design & Innovation Aotearoa (IDIA)
Panelist
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Mr Tiriana Anderson
Director
He Kura Tui, He Kura Ika
Panelist
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Session chair
Rewa Wright
Senior Lecturer
Queensland University of Technology
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