Red Earth: Computational Translations between non-Western and Western Ontology. A talk at Princeton University.
Red Earth is an ongoing artistic, interdisciplinary study by Michael Salu, centred on prose reflections and machine translation, drawing attention to the precarious status of non-western cultural heritage, knowledge systems and practices in the increasingly dominant Western systems of data, virtual architectures and AI technologies. This research asks how alternative cosmologies can be better represented within virtual architectures powered by AI innovation.
This talk, an overview of the study, was given at Princeton University in April 2023. Many thanks to Srinivas Bangalore at Princeton for the invitation.
