<strike>They were.</strike> We are. I am. Aztecas del norte, mojados, Indigenous peoples, First Nations People, mestizos, Redskins, Indians, Native Americans, Natives, savages, minorities, at risk peoples or asterisks peoples are some names or codes the Indigenous body is subjected to using settler colonialist language. To be named by the colonizer silences. To be categorized as a placeholder in a growing web of data is erasure. Both are violent. This dehumanization is enabled by a gilded history passed down through generations of underrepresented and now coded bodies, one that necessitates an interference which aims to undo this settler-colonialist structuring and catapult progress. As a Native Studies and Artificial Intelligence scholar, I seek to combine the two energies, Indigeneity and AI, by deeply exploring the social and cultural implications artificial intelligence has as a posthuman organism in order to contemporize the Indigenous experience.
Body memory. Intergenerational Trauma. Embodied Posthumanism.
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<strike>They were.</strike> We are. I am. Aztecas del norte, mojados, Indigenous peoples, First Nations People, mestizos, Redskins, Indians, Native Americans, Natives, savages, minorities, at risk peoples or asterisks peoples are some names or codes the Indigenous body is subjected to using settler colonialist language. To be named by the colonizer silences. To be categorized as a placeholder in a growing web of data is erasure. Both are violent. This dehumanization is enabled by a gilded history passed down through generations of underrepresented and now coded bodies, one that necessitates an interference which aims to undo this settler-colonialist structuring and catapult progress. As a Native Studies and Artificial Intelligence scholar, I seek to combine the two energies, Indigeneity and AI, in order to contemporize the Indigenous experience by deeply exploring the social and cultural implications artificial intelligence has as a posthuman organism.
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Lectures
“(re)Turning to Materiality,” CMAC Incomputable Futures Symposium, Duke University, Durham, NC, February, 2019. “Decoding the Body,” Transmediale, Berlin, DE, January 2019. Digital Colonization Workshop, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, January 2019. “Rupture, Syntax, Recovery,” Nature and Narrative Conference, St. Luis University, Madrid, SPA, June 2018. “Worlding,” Co-Constituting the Global Symposium, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, DE, June 2018. “Is Decolonization Possible,” Decolonization in Praxis Symposium, SOAS, University of London, London, UK, June 2018. "Decolonization Workshop," Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, DE, January 2018. |
Publications
“Digital Colonization: De-coding the Body,” APRJA, Forthcoming Spring 2019. “Tracing Echoes: for the she(d),” New Delta Review, 2019. “FWIW” (song titled “A Prayer for the Body”), Ionian Death Robes EP “Old World | New Ruins,” 2019. “Architecture is Emotional,” The Monster Issue of Gesture: A Literary Journal, 2013. |