Ramon
Amaro will talk about his upcoming book The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black
Being (MIT Press), which explores how the history of data and statistical analysis informs the complex relationship between
race and machine learning. The book juxtaposes a practical analysis of machine learning with a theory of Black alienation
in order to inspire alternative approaches to contemporary algorithmic practice. In doing so, Amaro contemplates the abstruse
nature of programming and mathematics, as well as the deep incursion of racial hierarchies.
Tiara Roxanne
illustrates through performance the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Indigeneity – this is part of an
ongoing project entitled Red. Roxanne’s work contends that AI is colonial in creation and nature, as its invention is founded
on a settler colonial paradigm. In performance, Roxanne is (dis)entangled within material and digital colonial borders of
the past, present and future.
Interview zur Reihe:
https://ail.angewandte.at/explore/in-conversation-with-clemens-apprich
