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Tiara Roxanne is a Purhépecha Mestiza transnational scholar and artist based in Berlin. They are currently a research fellow at Disruption Network Lab, Berlin.
Dr. Roxanne's work rethinks the ethics of AI through an anticolonial, eco-cyberfeminist lens. Their practice investigates how artificial intelligence and digital technologies actively participate in territorial extraction, environmental devastation, and the displacement of Indigenous, marginalized and vulnerable communities globally. By centering Indigenous feminist methodologies, their research reveals how technological progress is bound to colonial legacies inscribed in land, bodies, and memory. They are currently developing the concepts of digital attunement and the technological haunt through writing, performance, and curatorial practice—culminating in a forthcoming book supported by University of California Press (2026). These ideas extend their ongoing investigations into body memory and hauntology within socio-technical frameworks, asking: How do digital technologies reshape our nervous systems and memory schemes? And how might hauntology, refracted through Indigenous feminist and eco-feminist perspectives, provide tools for refusal, solidarity, and collective survival? |
Publications
Dr. Roxanne’s publications which include "The Technological Haunt in Artificial Intelligence: a lexicon (in notes),” Spector Books, 2022, as well as “Our Futures are Interwoven," The AI Anarchies Book, Akademie der Künste, 2024, and forthcoming "Digital Attunement and other intimacies," Posthuman Approaches to a Critique of Political Economy: Dissident Practices, Bloomsbury Press—have advanced a critical framework for understanding their concepts, the technological haunt and digital attunement. Their writings, published in both English and German, demonstrate how datamining practices, algorithmic design, and machine learning tools enforce colonial mechanisms through representational systems that erase intersectional perspectives and precolonial knowledge traditions which haunts marginalized and Indigenous peoples. Dr. Roxanne's current work not only unveils this, but inquires a navigation and toolkit that haunts back.
Performance Practice
As an artist, Tiara grounds practice with the knowledge that the body is the first technology. They began their work with video media exploring the underpinnings of AI and digital infrastructures for marginalized and Indigenous communities, in their film “I cannot decolonize my body,” initially commissioned by the Wrong Biennale in 2020. Since then, their performance work has developed into centering the body which has been presented transnationally in cities like Bogotá and Berlin. This performance draws upon site-specific resources to critique the use of digital technologies and their harmful impact on the climate as well as Indigenous communities. They are also amplifying their research on digital attunement through performance by attuning with participants as an anti-colonial feminist process, recently performed in London. Through textiles, ritual, and embodied actions, they create works that transform the body into a site of ceremony and refusal confronting the extractive and colonial logics embedded in digital technologies.
Teaching
Alongside their writing and performance, Dr. Roxanne leads seminars, workshops, and curatorial projects grounded in Indigenous feminist methodologies. These pedagogical and community-based practices cultivate dialogue and critical engagement across disciplines, fostering collective approaches to digital technology, ecology, and sovereignty. Central to this work is guiding students in ethical and decolonial processes of archiving, including the repatriation of objects and artifacts to Indigenous communities, ensuring accountability and relational care.
Jury
Extending this commitment beyond the classroom, Dr. Roxanne has also served on the jury for the Just Tech Fellowship in New York City (2023 & 2024), the Mensch Maschine Fellowship with Akademie der Künste Berlin and E-Werk Luckenwalde (2023–2025), and the Transmediale Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research Fellowship (2025).
Consultancy
They also guide consultancy projects, offering decolonial feminist expertise for AI research and design initiatives. Their consultancy work supports scholars, technologists, and institutions seeking to integrate anticolonial, eco-feminist, and Indigenous frameworks into the ethics of AI and digital practice.
Through multidisciplinary research, performance, teaching, and consultancy, Tiara advances a vision of digital culture that is always already haunted by histories of dispossession and gestures toward ecological, embodied, and relational practices that resist and refuse while imagining futures otherwise.
[CV available upon request]
Dr. Roxanne’s publications which include "The Technological Haunt in Artificial Intelligence: a lexicon (in notes),” Spector Books, 2022, as well as “Our Futures are Interwoven," The AI Anarchies Book, Akademie der Künste, 2024, and forthcoming "Digital Attunement and other intimacies," Posthuman Approaches to a Critique of Political Economy: Dissident Practices, Bloomsbury Press—have advanced a critical framework for understanding their concepts, the technological haunt and digital attunement. Their writings, published in both English and German, demonstrate how datamining practices, algorithmic design, and machine learning tools enforce colonial mechanisms through representational systems that erase intersectional perspectives and precolonial knowledge traditions which haunts marginalized and Indigenous peoples. Dr. Roxanne's current work not only unveils this, but inquires a navigation and toolkit that haunts back.
Performance Practice
As an artist, Tiara grounds practice with the knowledge that the body is the first technology. They began their work with video media exploring the underpinnings of AI and digital infrastructures for marginalized and Indigenous communities, in their film “I cannot decolonize my body,” initially commissioned by the Wrong Biennale in 2020. Since then, their performance work has developed into centering the body which has been presented transnationally in cities like Bogotá and Berlin. This performance draws upon site-specific resources to critique the use of digital technologies and their harmful impact on the climate as well as Indigenous communities. They are also amplifying their research on digital attunement through performance by attuning with participants as an anti-colonial feminist process, recently performed in London. Through textiles, ritual, and embodied actions, they create works that transform the body into a site of ceremony and refusal confronting the extractive and colonial logics embedded in digital technologies.
Teaching
Alongside their writing and performance, Dr. Roxanne leads seminars, workshops, and curatorial projects grounded in Indigenous feminist methodologies. These pedagogical and community-based practices cultivate dialogue and critical engagement across disciplines, fostering collective approaches to digital technology, ecology, and sovereignty. Central to this work is guiding students in ethical and decolonial processes of archiving, including the repatriation of objects and artifacts to Indigenous communities, ensuring accountability and relational care.
Jury
Extending this commitment beyond the classroom, Dr. Roxanne has also served on the jury for the Just Tech Fellowship in New York City (2023 & 2024), the Mensch Maschine Fellowship with Akademie der Künste Berlin and E-Werk Luckenwalde (2023–2025), and the Transmediale Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research Fellowship (2025).
Consultancy
They also guide consultancy projects, offering decolonial feminist expertise for AI research and design initiatives. Their consultancy work supports scholars, technologists, and institutions seeking to integrate anticolonial, eco-feminist, and Indigenous frameworks into the ethics of AI and digital practice.
Through multidisciplinary research, performance, teaching, and consultancy, Tiara advances a vision of digital culture that is always already haunted by histories of dispossession and gestures toward ecological, embodied, and relational practices that resist and refuse while imagining futures otherwise.
[CV available upon request]